Good to see this motion was presented without prejudice, and wasn't in anyway slanted in favour of any particular side, in this conflict.
This just gets more, and more shameful an episode.
Besides the fact we don't damned well want our local council wasting their time, and adopting resolutions connected to controversial international causes.
'Conflict in Kashmir
That this Council supports the Kashmir community here in Hyndburn in condemning the
atrocities committed and acts of barbaric violence by Indian Forces in Indian occupied
Kashmir which has resulted in women been gang raped, children lined up and shot dead in
front of their parents, people been torched and set on fire in their jail cells. Over one
hundred thousand people have been killed since 1989 and very recently Amnesty
International has found a number of mass graves in Kashmir. All this is because the
people of Kashmir want their right of self determination, the right which was recognised by
the United Nations in 1948.
To be moved by: Councillor Allah Dad
To be seconded by: Councillor Peter Britcliffe'
http://www.hyndburnbc.gov.uk/downloa...to_Council.pdf