Kashmir witnessed a shutdown on the World Human Rights Day on Monday, as the separatist Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) wrote to the UN to establish a Commission of Inquiry into alleged human rights violations in Kashmir.
The separatist leadership also sought UN intervention “to press upon New Delhi to stop rights violation forthwith.”
The shutdown affected normal life in the Kashmir valley on Monday. Most shops remained closed and very thin traffic plied on the roads .
The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (ADDP), headed by Parveena Ahanger, also held a protest on the occasion.
“We will continue to seek the whereabouts of our disappeared till we are alive,” Ms. Ahanger said, while referring to around 7,000 cases of disappearances reported since the eruption of militancy in 1989 in Kashmir.
