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Fwd: [bangla-vision] Protest Demonstration on 10 December 2010, International Day of Human Rights Place Schumann, 1040 Brussels (in front of EU Council) 11 AM - 1 PM

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From: Habib Yousafzai <yousafzai49@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 1:42 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] Protest Demonstration on 10 December 2010, International Day of Human Rights Place Schumann, 1040 Brussels (in front of EU Council) 11 AM - 1 PM
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World Kashmir Diaspora Alliance

NO ! To Human Rights violations in Kashmir

Join us in our Protest Demonstration on the International Day of Human Rights

10 December 2010, Place Schumann, from 11 AM until 1 PM, Brussels

On that same day, on that very moment Indian Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh, will visit the European Parliament as guest in the EU-India Summit.

We, as organizers of the demonstration, want to raise attention for the ongoing , cruel and wide spreads human rights violations against the people of Kashmir by the military and paramilitary forces in the Valley of Kashmir, which is under administration of the Indian Government.

We organize the protest to express our concern on the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Jammu and Kashmir, and the decade long and ongoing denial of the right to self determination as promised to the people of Kashmir by former Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, and agreed upon by the UN in 1948. Over 600.000 troops are stationed in Kashmir, for one out of every ten civilians a soldier or security officer is at duty, which is five times more then the international forces in a war zone as Afghanistan…

We strongly condemn the way Government of India replies to people's non-violent protests, namely by imposing curfew, brutal force and merciless repression by army and security forces of the non-violent protestors. Since last June, so in only five months, more than 120 non-violent protesters (youth, women and children) have been killed by police and army bullets.

The mass revolt in Kashmir is not masterminded by Pakistani insurgents but a genuine and non-violent people's protest to claim the right to self determination. Kashmiri socio- economic and political society is victimized by present and past political turmoil fuelled by Indian and Pakistani national politics of ignoring people's persistent appeal to be granted their right to self determination . We appeal for dialogue with representatives from all shades of Kashmiri civil and political society.

We also appeal for a dialogue between European Union and Kashmiri representatives of civil and political society about the true reasons of people's protest, about their ambitions and sentiments, and about roadmaps to conflict resolution and peace.

Now that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh visits European Parliament on International Human Rights Day, we want to remind him to the state of human rights in Kashmir and show him that we take him accountable for India's democratic deficit in Kashmir.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is responsible for the presence of - and the ' shoot- to- kill' mandate for - the huge military and paramilitary forces in Kashmir ; for the ' Black Laws' that grant impunity to perpetrators of human rights violations; for lack of truth and justice ; for over two thousands unmarked and nameless graves and the denial of a serious inquiry that must reveal the truth about the allegations exposed in the reports ' Facts Under Ground' and 'Buried Evidence' about these graves.

We want Dr. Manmohan Singh to take home the message of the people in Europe that truth can never be buried and justice never be compromised.

We invite you to join hands, as Kashmiri, Sikhs, Europeans, in a strong appeal for justice.

Together we can show our moral support for the people of Kashmir and show them they are not alone ; that we express solidarity with their nonviolent struggle against human rights violations and the denial of self determination.