In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference has demanded investigation by international agencies into all massacres including the mass murder of thirty-five members of Sikh community in Chattisinghpora area of Islamabad district.

Senior APHC leader Ghulam Ahmed Gulzar in a statement in Srinagar on the 23rd anniversary of the Sikh massacre said that Indian army and its agencies orchestrated the killing on the eve of the then US President, Bill Clinton’s visit to India to defame the Kashmir’s legitimate freedom movement among comity of nations.

It was on March 20, 2000, when Indian troops in disguise entered the Chattisinghpora village and killed the Sikhs to give an impression to the world that the carnage was carried out by Kashmiri mujahideen.

However, investigation belied the Indian propaganda and confirmed that the killed youth were local villagers and were massacred to hide the Indian army’s heinous crime.

Meanwhile, various Hurriyat leaders and organizations in their statements in Srinagar deplored that the Chattisinghpora massacre’s anniversary coincided the International Day of Happiness, today.

They said that the day has lost its meaning for the people of occupied Jammu and Kashmir amid the ongoing spree of killings, arrests and crackdown operations in every nook and corner of the territory.