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Human rights
South Human rights award for Salman Khan
2010-08-06, Issue 493
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On the 23rd July 2010 in an auspicious gala dinner in Johannesburg Salman Khan, founder and chairman of SAKAG (South African Kashmiri Action Group) was awarded in recognition of is work for the Kashmir cause in South Africa by the Human Rights Foundation of South Africa. Salman Khan founded SAKAG in South Africa in 1999 and have relentlessly worked on the raising of issue of Kashmir on all level in South Africa for last 11 years, he has since delivered hundreds of speeches, over 200 radio interviews, 50 TV interviews, several presentations in universities and schools, and had written many articles on Kashmir human rights issues in national news papers.
On the 23rd July 2010 in an auspicious gala dinner in Johannesburg Salman Khan, founder and chairman of SAKAG (South African Kashmiri Action Group) was awarded in recognition of is work for the Kashmir cause in South Africa by the Human Rights Foundation of South Africa.
The award Citation read as follows,
Award for Mr Salman Khan for "His Outstanding Contributions toward Human Rights" by Human Rights Foundation of South Africa:
Citation.
1. For his contributions to Liberation of People of Kashmir.
2. For his contribution to the exposure of the violation of the human rights of Kashmiri's
3. For his contribution to the search for the Truth and Justice for the People of Kashmir.
The occasion was attended by the diplomatic immunity, Government officials Scholars, politician, Journalists, civil and human rights NGO.
Salman Khan had found SAKAG in South Africa in 1999 and have relentlessly worked on the raising of issue of Kashmir on all level in South Africa for last 11 years, he has since delivered hundreds of speeches, over 200 radio interviews, 50 TV interviews, several presentations in universities and schools, and had written many articles on Kashmir human rights issues in national news papers.
He also had organised two major Kashmir Peace conferences in Johannesburg which was attended by Diplomats, scholars, Trade Unionists, Human Right watch and various notable organisations.
Since 1999, he also had led 12 marches and rallies to Indian Embassy in Pretoria and Johannesburg, and also carried out a protest at Union Building during the State visit of President Manmohan Singh’s to South Africa in 2007. His famous march and protest was at the Gallagher estate during the Bollywood Star Salman Khan Show “ Sensation 2007”, where mainstream newspaper published a frontline heading “Salman Khan Vs Salman Khan”.
On 23rd May 2008, he had assassination attempt on him meant he was shot at point blank range eight times, miraculously he survived but unfortunately injuries on his faces and eyes resulted in the loss of sight in his right eye.
The incident has not deter him from his human right activism for Kashmiris, he maintained that this incidents give him strength to continue is struggle for liberation of innocent people of Kashmir and these obstructions make his resolve even stronger to help the hopeless people of Kashmir.
Mr. Khan maintained that no amount of danger or demoralisation by any quarter would weak his intrinsic resolves toward the Kashmir cause and its liberation.
SAKAG News desk.