New Delhi : India on Wednesday tore into Pakistan at the UN Security Council, saying its “long-tainted” record of genocidal acts showed a pattern of trying to externalise internal failures through violence within and beyond its borders. India’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, made the remarks after Pakistan’s representative referred to Jammu and Kashmir during the debate.
Parvathaneni said, “The world has not forgotten that it was during the holy month of Ramadan in March this year, at a time of peace, reflection, and mercy, that Pakistan conducted a barbaric airstrike on the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul.” Citing the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, he said, “This cowardly and unconscionable act of violence claimed the lives of 269 civilians and injured a further 122 in a facility which can by no means be justified as a military target.”
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Parvathaneni also referred to UNAMA’s assessment that more than 94,000 people were displaced because of cross-border armed violence carried out against Afghan civilians. He said such acts of aggression by Pakistan should not be surprising from a country that “bombs its own people and conducts systematic genocide.”Parvathaneni also said Pakistan had sanctioned a systematic campaign of genocidal mass rape of 400,000 women by its own army during Operation Searchlight in 1971.
About Afghanistan, he said, “The world has not forgotten that it was during the holy month of Ramadan in March this year, at a time of peace, reflection, and mercy, that Pakistan conducted a barbaric airstrike on the Omid Addiction Treatment Hospital in Kabul. Again, according to UNAMA, this cowardly and unconscionable act of violence claimed the lives of 269 civilians and injured a further 122 in a facility which can by no means be justified as a military target,” he said.
In conclusion, India’s UN envoy Parvathaneni urged the global community to “restore and ensure respect for international humanitarian law, strengthen accountability, ensure humanitarian access, protect medical care, responsibly govern emerging technologies and thereby alleviate the suffering of civilians affected by armed conflict.”
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