Srinagar:
Day after Amnesty International released its report on use of Pellet guns in Kashmir valley, chief cleric and chairman Hurriyat conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq ‘welcomed the report’, on Thursday.
Mirwaiz took to social media networking website Twitter expressing his views.
“Kashmir welcomes amnesty report calling for immediate ban on pellet guns, trial of forces (personnel) in civilian courts and rehabilitation and compensation for victims,” tweeted Mirwaiz.
AI for ban on pellet use, impartial probe into casualties
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Amnesty International India on Wednesday called for an “immediate ban” on use of pellets and asked the state government to initiate prompt, independent and impartial civilian investigations into all incidents where the use of munitions led to deaths or injuries to establish whether arbitrary or excessive force was used in Kashmir Valley.
In a statement, Amnesty International India had said pellet-firing shotguns have been responsible for blinding, killing and traumatizing hundreds of people in Kashmir and it must be immediately banned.
It also reiterated in a new-briefing, “Losing Sight in Kashmir: The Impact of Pellet-Firing Shotguns”.
The briefing presents the cases of 88 people whose eyesight was damaged by metal pellets fired from pump-action shotguns used by the Jammu and Kashmir Police (JKP) and paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) between 2014 and 2017.
“In his Independence Day speech, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that change in Kashmir will not come from guns or abuses – na goli, na gali. If the government truly means this, they must end the use of pellet-firing shotguns, which have caused immense suffering in Kashmir,” Aakar Patel, Executive Director at Amnesty International India told reporters on Wednesday
