Srinagar, Dec 13: Majlis-i-Mashawarat Shopian and Jammu & Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society today jointly organised a civil society meet and unanimously adopted the following resolutions.
- Shopian tragedy of May 30, 2009 is an outrage for all of the people of Kashmir and not just the victims' families or people of the district alone.
- Civil society in Kashmir has lost faith in all state institutions, including CBI, for delivering justice in the tragedy: the case of rape and murder of Asiya Jan and Neelofar Jan. Justice to victims cannot not be expected from a system that perpetrates the crime.
- An independent international probe by body like the one that is investigating murder of Benazir Bhutto and Rafique Harari be constituted for the Shopian crime and the cover-ups that continue to be pursued by state agencies. Simultaneously, a public hearing in the crime be held in Kashmir.
- Kashmir civil society will continue to fight for justice in the Shopian case and expose all cover-ups during various investigations into it.
- All state officials involved in the cover-ups, destruction of evidence and dereliction of duty be made party to the case as conspirators including top officials who head these forces.
Majlis-i-Mashawarat Shopian and Jammu & Kashmir Civil Society also concerned that:
- Denial of justice in the Shopian case and numerous others in the past paints people of Kashmir as habitual protestors and takes away meaning from public demands of justice in the most militarized and occupied situation.
- Cover-up attempts are aimed at protecting or projecting a particular image of a system that perpetrates Shopian like crimes at the cost of justice.
- Denial of justice in such cases not just aims at whitewashing a long record of state crimes in Kashmir but also demonizes people demanding justice.
- Injustices in Kashmir are becoming more and more systemic in nature with the passage of time in the background of the record of such crimes.
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