Massacres Like Kashmir Lal-Chowk Are Consistent With The Repression Policy Of India: YFK

By News Desk

ISLAMABAD—YFK–International Kashmir Lobby Group (Youth Forum For Kashmir) marked the 25^th anniversary of the Lal Chowk Srinagar massacre where India’s occupation army killed up to 47 people and burned homes and shops in an entire suburb of Srinagar.

“This is not the only incident,” Incharge YFK Social Media Ghulam Shabbir said, “the Indian military and paramilitary forces had been systematically destroying houses, burning down shops, and even attacking shrines in Kashmir.”

YFK Director Ahmed Quraishi said, Pakistanis should join Kashmiris in highlighting all the important days in the Kashmir freedom struggle against Indian occupation.

“Massacres like Lal Chowk are consistent with the policy of repression and subjugation by the government of India and its collaborators to silence the people’s resistance against the illegal occupation,” Quraishi said.

“Pakistan is one of those few countries in the world that continue to engage the world community on behalf of Kashmir freedom struggle,” he added.

One of the most devastating incidents of its kind, on April 10, 1993, a large section of downtown Srinagar known as Lal Chowk was burned to the ground by Indian paramilitary troops. 47 innocent Kashmiri were burned alive.

In all, 59 houses, 190 shops, 53 stores where inventory was kept, two office buildings, five commercial buildings, two schools and a shrine inside the building were gutted by the fire.

YFK–International Kashmir Lobby Group (Youth Forum For Kashmir) is a non-partisan, international non-governmental organization, working for the peaceful resolution of Kashmir Conflict in accordance with United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Resolutions.