In occupied Kashmir, All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani has appealed to Kashmiris living all over the world to observe Indian Republic Day on Sunday as Black Day.

In a statement in Srinagar, he said democracy is the name of respecting aspirations and opinion of people but India, in the garb of so-called democracy, has always suppressed Kashmiris’ aspirations and kept them under illegal military occupation for the last over 72 years.

Syed Ali Gilani said the massacre carried out by Indian troops in the months of January in 1990s exposed the real face of Indian democracy.