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ISLAMABAD, (APP): The Executive Director of New
Delhi-based South Asia Human Rights Documentation Centre (SAHRDC),
Ravi Nair, has said that the Indian Government is grossly
violating international norms by indiscriminately using pellet
guns against protesters in occupied Kashmir.
Ravi Nair in an interview with a Srinagar-based English
daily Greater Kashmir said that the Indian government was
violating the UN basic principles on the use of force and firearms
and the UN code of conduct for law enforcement officials,Kashmir
Media Sevice reported.
He said that the Indian state had lost any remaining vestige
of moral high ground it sought to cloak itself with in Kashmir in
its failure to stop the immediate use of the pellet guns in the
occupied territory.
The setting up of a Committee of Indian Home Ministry to
review use of pellet guns, which has another month to submit its
report, is procrastination at its best, he stated.
The SAHRDC Executive Director termed the overall human
rights situation in occupied Kashmir as abominable, adding that
the Indian state had substantively proved that it was bereft of
eyesight, hindsight or foresight in its dealings with the Kashmiri
people.