Pak 'live example' of how a state continues to evade accountability for genocide, ethnic cleansing: India

Highlights India slammed Pak as it raised the issue of J&K in UNSC India said Pak evades accountability for serious crimes of genocide, ethnic cleansing New Delhi asserted that it will take firm and decisive steps to respond to cross-border terrorism India has slammed Pakistan as it raised the issue of Jammu and Kashmir in the UN Security Council, with New Delhi saying the neighbouring country is a “live example” of how a nation continues to evade accountability for serious crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing and asserting that India will continue to take firm and decisive steps to respond to cross-border terrorism. Dr Kajal Bhat, Counsellor/Legal Adviser in India’s Permanent Mission to the UN, said Thursday in the Security Council that she was constrained to take the floor to respond to some of the falsehoods and malicious propaganda spread by the representative of Pakistan “as they are accustomed to do like a broken record". "The irony is perhaps lost on the representative of Pakistan, given their shameful history of committing genocide in what was then East Pakistan, and what is now Bangladesh, over 50 years back for which there has not even been an acknowledgement, much less apology or accountability,” Bhat said after the representative of Pakistan raised the issue of Jammu and Kashmir at the UN Security Council open debate on “Strengthening accountability and justice for serious violations of international law” chaired by Council President Albania. “The representative of Pakistan presents a live example to the Security Council of how a state continues to evade accountability for serious crimes of genocide and ethnic cleansing.