Taking note of the excessive use of force by the government forces against the civilian protesters in the Kashmir valley, the Association of Indian Muslims of America (AIM) has sent an appeal to the President of India.
AIM that represents a large number of Indian Muslims living in North America sent an appeal on Friday to Pranab Mukherjee demanding to contain forces in Kashmir.
In the last five weeks 65 civilians have been killed in Kashmir.
Forces are consistently using pellets and have so far fired about 1.3 million pellet bullets or 1 pellet for every 10 people of Kashmir. The army has also been raiding the houses of civilans at night in the villages, dragging them out and beating them viscously.
Kaleem Kawaja, the Executive Director of the Association reportedly has said that the Association opposes the demands for freedom from India of those Kashmiris who are holding protests or throwing stones as it considers the state of Jammu & Kashmir a part of India. However the Association condemns excessive use of lethal force against the civilian Kashmiris that has resulted in such grievous loss of life and injuries.
