Islamabad: Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan has said he feared a massacre similar to the 1995 genocide in Srebrenica could happen in Kashmir.
“We were shocked and appalled how this massacre was allowed to happen in a United Nations safe haven. I still feel shock [over] how such a thing could have been allowed by the world community.” Mr. Khan was quoted as saying by Dawn.
He said it was important to learn lessons from the massacre and talked about apprehensions regarding Kashmir.
“We see problems for the people of Kashmir. 800,000 troops have besieged eight million people of Kashmir. We are afraid that such a thing might happen there as well.”
Khan was speaking on the 25th anniversary of the massacre, that killed at least 8,000 mostly Muslim men and boys who were chased through woods in and around Srebrenica by Serb troops in what is considered the worst carnage of civilians in Europe since World War II. It has been confirmed as an act of genocide.
He urged the world community to take notice and never allow such massacres to happen again.
