(5 Aug 2024)
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Muzaffarabad, Pakistan-administered Kashmir – 05 August 2024
1. Various of Kashmiri refugees protesting against India chanting UPSOUND (Urdu) “Kashmiri wants freedom" "We want freedom“ “Go India go back“ “We will take freedom from India; we will take freedom from Modi"
2. Protesters holding banner (Urdu) reading, “The United Nations should force India to withdraw its aggression steps taken on 05 August 2019“
3. UPSOUND (Urdu) Protesters chanting “Freedom is our right“ “We will take Freedom“
4. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Rasheed Ahmed, Kashmiri refugee:
“Five years ago, on 5th August the special status of occupied Kashmir was changed, and we are protesting today against it, and we want to send message to Indian government from here that we will take revenge for each drop of blood of our brothers and sisters killed by India, and we will take revenge with freedom.”
5. Various of protesters burning Indian flag UPSOUND (Urdu) “Set fire to the houses of India “
6. Vairous of protestors with banner of Indian leaders with their faces crossed out
7. Women holding placards (Urdu) reading, "Indian possession is unacceptable“ “Kashmir is not part of India“
8. Protesters burning portraits of Indian leadership UPSOUND (English) “Killer! Killer! Modi killer!“
9. SOUNDBITE (Urdu) Hamza Shaheen, Kashmiri refugee:
“We are protesting here against the killing of Kashmiris by India, we demand the United Nations implement its dozens of resolutions on Kashmir, and our demand to the international community and human rights organisations, for God asked, is to play your role to stop India from killing innocent Kashmiris.”
10. Various Kashmiri protesters with their hands in chains
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people took to the streets in Pakistan-administered Kashmir Monday to mark the fifth anniversary of India’s decision to strip the disputed region of its semi-autonomy and take direct control of it.
The decision— which Islamabad insists was unilateral and violated United Nations resolutions — has tested the already strained ties between the two countries.
Protesters in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-held Kashmir, which is split between Pakistan and India and claimed by both in its entirety, burned Indian national flags, vowing to fight New Delhi’s decree until its dissolution.
"We are protesting here against the killing of Kashmiris by India, we demand the United Nations implement its dozens of resolutions on Kashmir," said protester Hamza Shaheen
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was also expected to address lawmakers in Muzaffarabad later on Monday. In a statement, he called to resolve the tense territorial dispute over Kashmir through the diplomatic channels of the U.N., saying Pakistan will continue to “extend its strong moral, political and diplomatic support to the Kashmiri people.”
In 2019, India’s Hindu nationalist-led government revoked the special status of Muslim-majority Kashmir after cutting off communications and deploying thousands of troops in the restive Himalayan region amid uproar from Pakistani lawmakers.
In December, India’s top court upheld the decision by Modi’s government.
The future of Muslim-majority Kashmir was left unresolved at the end of British colonial rule in 1947, when the Indian subcontinent was divided into predominantly Hindu India and mainly Muslim Pakistan. Pakistan has long pushed for the right to self-determination under a U.N. resolution passed in 1948, which called for a referendum on whether Kashmiris wanted to merge with Pakistan or India.
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