SRINAGAR: A leading Kashmiri rights campaigner and lawyer, has launched an online petition to stop the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) from dropping the "UN Report on Kashmir", published in June 2018 recognizing gross human rights atrocities in Kashmir. Barrister Majid Tramboo has launched a petition to hold a panel discussion on the report.
The report prepared by OHCHR through remote monitoring focuses on the situation of human rights in Kashmir from July 2016 to April 2018. During this period there were widespread and serious human rights violations including extrajudicial killings, torture, rape and gang rapes, excessive use of force, illegal draconian laws, enforced disappearances, use of pellet- firing shotguns, arbitrary arrests and detention including minors in the valley.
Barrister Tramboo said that OHCHR is likely not to take any further action on the UN Kashmir report because of non-cooperation from the stakeholders Geo News reported. “India has refused permission to OHCHR officials to grant access to the occupied territory time and again because the government of India attempts to hide its crime against the people of Kashmir,” he said.