All sections must strive for end to violence : Ashok Bhan

New Delhi, Dec 10 : Senior advocate and human rights defender Ashok Bhan today said that all sections of society in the country must strive for an end to violence.

According to a press release, he was delivering a guest lecture to the law students of Delhi Law School as part of the celebration of Human Rights Day. “All sections of the society in the country collectively including Kashmiris deserve respect to human rights doctrine and they must strive for an end of violence,” Bhan said.

“In South Asia the human rights violation at the hands of terrorists is galore. It is being encouraged by a nation state that pursues terrorism as an instrument of its national and foreign policy and brazenly provides all the overt and covert support by way of arms, funding, strategic and other logistic support including drone cover ups to terrorists indulging in their terror activities on the soil of India especially in the Jammu and Kashmir UT,”he said.

While referring to Kashmir Pandits, he said a native population of seven hundred thousand has been exiled by using the tactics of one targeted killing and scaring a thousand population in densely habituated areas of the Valley. “Let us all the humans globally rise the occasion and condemn the human rights violations in any part of the world and collectively strive towards building peace and harmony besides ending bigotry, communalism and violence and promote human rights universalism,” Bhan said.

He stated that currently drug menace is a huge problem associated with terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir and vulnerable youth are dragged in this dangerous path by handlers of terror modules who are failed and losing people’s so called moral support, because Kashmiris see them as representatives of doom, death and destruction.