Srinagar: The All Parties Hurriyat Conference in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, while paying rich tributes to the martyrs of the Kupwara massacre on their martyrdom anniversary, has said that Jammu and Kashmir is an internationally recognized dispute and that no amount of Indian state terrorism or colonial measures can alter the disputed status of the territory.

According to Global Mirror, Indian troops mercilessly killed twenty-seven innocent Kashmiris on January 27, 1994, to punish them for observing a shutdown against India’s Republic Day a day earlier.

APHC spokesman Advocate Abdul Rashid Minhas, in a statement issued in Srinagar, said that Kashmiris will never forget the supreme sacrifices of their martyrs made for achieving political justice through a plebiscite under United Nations resolutions. He appealed to international human rights organizations to fulfill their moral and legal responsibilities.