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| ‘CM has zero tolerance for human rights’ | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, June 29: The Chief Minister has zero tolerance for human rights. This is what convener of International Peoples Tribunal for Peace and Justice in Kashmir (IPTK), Dr Angana Chatterjee said while addressing a press conference in the summer capital today.
Dr Chatterjee who teaches Anthropology in an American university actually wanted to say that CM (as per his claims) has zero tolerance to human rights violations. However, she missed the word `violations' unwittingly and a few scribes took note of the lapse.
If human rights abuses perpetrated during the past one year are properly analyzed, Dr Chatterjee's lapse explains Omar Abdullah's performance, rather his failure on the human rights front.
Scores of people mainly school going boys got killed ever since Omar Abdullah took over the reins of the state. On the very first day, a mentally challenged person was killed outside his residence. Omar ordered a probe. The findings have not been made public till date.
Omar's government fudged the forensic reports to hush up Shopian case. Last year in May two women were raped and murdered in Shopian. Justice Jan Commission's report was also doctored. The survivors are still waiting for justice.
Wamiq Farooq, a student of 11th standard was killed on January 31 this year when a police officer fired a smoke shell near Bohri Kadal in down town Srinagar at him. The police ordered an enquiry and submitted a report as well. According to the report, Wamiq was a habitual stone pelter and got hit in his head while trying to cause damage to a police vehicle. The eyewitnesses have rejected this report as ridiculous. The police refused to register an FIR. The aggrieved parents have sought judicial recourse to get a complaint registered in the concerned police station. The petition is pending adjudication in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) Srinagar. The learned CJM has entrusted enquiry of the case to a magistrate.
On February 5 another youth, Zahid Farooq got killed when a BSF party opened fire on him near Nishat. The divisional commissioner Kashmir held an enquiry and submitted her report within seven days. She established involvement of BSF in the killing. The culprits have been arrested. The state government claims credit for the arrest but it was the union government that made the BSF officer surrender as a `good will gesture'. Even if the state government is given the credit for the `miracle' it does not improve the percentage of state government intolerance to human rights by leaps and bounds. According to Dr Chatterjee, 40 persons have been killed during the past six months. The state government's success in curbing human rights violations, therefore, is just 2.5%.
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