Fake encounter at Lawaypora needs international probe on urgent basis

Srinagar: Jammu & Kashmir Awami Action Committee (AAC) led by incarcerated Chairman APHC Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has expressed anguish and grief over the killing of innocent three youth by Indian forces in Lawaypora area on Srinagar outskirts in staged encounter that needs international probe on urgent basis.

A delegation visited the bereaved families and expressed condolences and solidarity with them. The Indian repression in IIOJK is unparalleled in the history of repression.

AAC said as per the families of the slain youth , they were innocent students who had left their homes in relation to their studies and were killed in cold blood.

AAC said that as demanded by the families and in accordance with the principles of justice an impartial investigation should be done to bring the guilty to account , but going by the past record of such killings which frequently take place here , an impartial investigation is highly unlikely.

AAC said that what makes the Lawaypora tragedy more painful is the manner in which their burial took place as the families were even denied their dead bodies by the authorities which is extremely unfortunate and condemnable.