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The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has condemned the Pulwama killings and asked Delhi to allow the OIC and IPHRC to send a fact-finding mission to the valley.KashmirtTaking to micro-blogging site Twitter OIC wrote: “OIC General Secretariat expressed strong condemnation of the killing of innocent Kashmiris by #Indian forces in Indian-occupied #Kashmir (#IOK) where direct shooting at demonstrators in Pulwama region claimed the lives of a number of innocent citizens.”

“OIC_IPHRC recently received a detailed briefing on the worsening #human rights situation in the #Indian occupied #Kashmir (#IoK). @OIC_IPHRC condemned the recent wave of violence against civilians & called on Indian Government to allow #OIC & IPHRC fact-finding mission to visit IoK,” OIC tweeted.

In a statement, OIC-IPHRC said it strongly condemned the “deplorable extrajudicial killings of innocent Kashmiris in Pulwama district of Kashmir by the Indian security forces.”

OIC in a statement urged the ‘Indian Government to put an end to the human rights abuses.’

“The excessive and arbitrary use of force by Indian forces against innocent civilians, peacefully protesting for their legitimate rights, is deplorable and a blatant violation of their human rights including the right to life, right to freedom of expression, right to peaceful protests and assembly and other fundamental human rights,” said the statement.

The statement said the commission notes that the modern history of Kashmir has become synonymous with “insidious systematic and systemic ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Kashmiris where all possible means of violence including mass blinding through pellet guns, rape and molestation against women, enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings of youth are used to quell their legitimate and well recognized demand for self-determination.”

“The objective report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, issued in June this year, aptly covers these violations in detail. The High Commissioner for Human Rights also called for establishing a Commission of Inquiry under UN auspices to comprehensively investigate the confirmed allegations of human rights violations, which are fully supported by the IPHRC,” said the statement.

“The Commission also urges the Government of India to abide by its international human rights obligations by bringing an end to the gross human rights violations and allow the international human rights community including the UN and OIC to visit Kashmir to objectively and independently report on the human rights situation,” it said.

According to the statement, It urged the UN, the OIC and the international community to exert pressure on the Indian Government to immediately stop the ‘heavy-handedness of its security forces’, guarantee the protection of human rights of innocent Kashmiris and accede to UN-mandated plebiscite for durable peace in the region.

The condemnation statement from OIC has come a day after Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said that he had written a letter to the OIC secretary general along with letters to the United Nations secretary general and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

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