Dal Khalsa delegation, led by party’s secretary for human rights Prithpal Singh Khalsa met UN representative Ms. Lisa Antonia Hartmann in Geneva and submitted a memorandum addressed to Ms. Nazhat Shameen Khan, President of the UNHRC.
The organization in a press release issued to The Kashmiriyat said, it apprised the UN about the killings of 14 Civilians in Nagaland by the Government Forces, pre-planned killings of farmers by BJP leaders in Lakhimpur Kheri, framing of media persons and arresting of human rights defender Khuram Parvaiz and alleged fake encounters in Kashmir, languishing of political prisoners in jails despite serving their life sentences and arrests of scores of Sikh youth in Punjab under UAPA.
“Our representatives have told the UN to influence Indian state to stop human rights abuses, as no right was safe and sacrosanct,” Dal Khalsa said. The delegation conveyed to UN officials that India was speedily marching towards totalitarianism and majoritarianism and becoming a police state.
The delegation told officials that human rights activists from Kashmir to Delhi to Nagaland has gathered in Amritsar on World Human Rights Day and unanimously demanded the scrapping of all draconian laws – UAPA, sedition, AFSPA, PSA, as these laws have curbed dissent and freedom of expression of minorities and nationalities. They handed over the copy of The Amritsar Unity Charter of Human Rights 2021 adopted unanimously by representative bodies of all struggling nationalities in Kashmir, Punjab, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu and Tripura.