PM Imran Khan Speech Today at UNGA - 25th September 2020
Prime Minister Imran Khan said that India was "obliterating the distinct Kashmiri identity" through it illegal measures in the occupied territory, a he addressed the 75th session United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) via video link on Thursday.
"While the Nazis' hate was directed at the Jews, the RSS directs it at the Muslims, and to a lesser extent, the Christians," he said, adding that the extremist ideologists believe that India is exclusively for Hindus and others are not equal citizens.
"The secularism of Gandhi and Nehru has been replaced by the dream of creating a Hindu Rashtra, by subjugating, even cleansing India's 200 million Muslims and other minorities," he said.
PM Imran spoke about the RSS's attempt to destroy the Babri Masjid and the massacre of 2,000 Muslims in the Gujarat riots. "And this was [Gujarat massacre] under the watch of chief minister Modi," he said.
The premier spoke about India's discriminatory policies for Muslims during the pandemic, saying that the government blamed the minority group for spreading the coronavirus and they were denied medical treatment on many occasions.
"Last February, Muslims faced target killings with police complicity in Delhi," he said.
Referring to it as something that was "unprecedented in history", PM Imran said that the Hindutva ideology sought to persecute 300 million Muslims, Christians and Sikhs.
PM Imran then spoke about India's August 5 attempt to annex occupied Kashmir. "Mr President, India illegally sought to occupy Kashmir, adding that this was against the commitments India had made to the people of Kashmir and the world.
"About 13,000 Kashmiri youth were incarcerated and thousands tortured," he said. "Indian occupation forces have used brute force including pellet guns against peaceful protesters," he said.
"The Kashmiri media and those daring to raise their voices are being systematically harassed through draconian laws," he said, drawing the world's attention to the Indian forces' brutal act of killing hundreds of Kashmiris in fake encounters and not even handing their bodies back to their relatives.
He called on the world community to prosecute the Indian civil and military personnel for their "crimes against humanity".
PM Imran said that India was attempting to obliterate the distinct Kashmiri identity by altering the area's demography, to escape the plebiscite in line with the UN resolutions.
"This action is in violation of the UN charter, [Security] Council resolutions and international law, particularly 4th Geneva Convention," he said. "Changing demographic structure of an occupied territory is a war crime."
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