JKLF activists protest rights violation by troops

Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) activists have demanded the release of political prisoners and an end to alleged human rights violations by security forces.

Srinagar, Sept. 14 : Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) activists have demanded the release of political prisoners and an end to alleged human rights violations by security forces.

"The whole world has the right to act against human rights violation. We want to show the world how human rights are being violated in Kashmir. There is a need to put an end to it," said Abdul Majeed Khan, the General Secretary of JKFL.

Attired in black and wrapped in chains, the protestors called for a stop to custodial killings as well.In January, investigations were ordered into the alleged into recent incidents in which murder of five civilians by security personnel.

The dead were then passed off as militants shot in self-defence.The Jammu and Kashmir Government has ordered a judicial probe into the incidents.

The Kashmir-based Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons has called for a probe into the disappearance of around 10,000 people.

The authorities, however, say the number of missing people is between 1,000 and 3,000.Official statistics say that about 42,000 people have been killed in Kashmir between 1989 and 2007, but human rights groups put the toll at about 60,000 dead or missing.

ANI