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“I was stripped naked by my torturer”
By Umer Beigh Last two decades of Indian-held-Kashmir have gone through number of cases of torture, humiliation, fake encounters, disappearances, molestations, sexual assaults and other forms of harassment. Showkat Ahmad, 36, still remembers three months of torture in the torture centers, Papa-2 and Gogaland. Showkat is from downtown area Srinagar and was 16-years-old when he [...]
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Indian state and its “justice” system
By Dr. Sheikh Showkat Hussain Conflict ridden areas often remain associated with large scale human right abuses. These assume horrifying proportions with highest degrees of militarization. States tend to conceal the human right situation through restrictions on media intimidations and targeting of human right activists. International groups working for human rights are not allowed to [...]
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Interview | Angana Chatterji, by David Barsamian
Interviewed by David Barsamian San Francisco: Among the many issues plaguing South Asia none is as violent and deeply contested as Kashmir. The major unresolved issue of the disastrous British partition of India in 1947, Kashmir has been the site of wars and the threat of wars, and probably the world’s longest and most extensive [...]
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“In J&K, the elected representatives are helpless to end the state of impunity”
Peoples Union for Democratic Rights is outraged at the brazen claim advanced by the Indian Army that let alone sanction for prosecution, no civil administration can even register a FIR against army personnel without sanction of the Central government. During the hearing on CBI’s complaint against the army for shielding their personnel accused of fake [...]
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Kashmir’s Unmarked Graves; UN Mediation
By Huma Sheikh In August 2011, the unmarked graves atrocity came to light in Kashmir after the Jammu & Kashmir Human Rights Commission confirmed that more than two thousand bodies were buried in those graves in several districts of the Valley. The commission said many of the dead were civilians who had disappeared over the [...]
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JKCCS Report: Human Rights Review – Jammu and Kashmir in 2011
This is a report released by the JAMMU AND KASHMIR COALITION OF CIVIL SOCIETY, the Bund, Amira Kadal, Srinagar 190001, (www.jkccs.net) TOTAL KILLINGS Year 2011 has just passed, and many have declared this year, a peaceful year in Jammu and Kashmir. Ofcourse assertions of peace by various quarters are relative. Enforced silence cannot be construed as peace. [...]
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APDP: A credible inquiry commission should probe 8000 disappearances of JK
This is a press statement by Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, issued here today. Callousness of the government continues vis-à-vis victims of human rights abuses and in particular against the family members of those who have disappeared in the last two decades in Jammu and Kashmir. The relatives of more than 8000 persons continue [...]
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132 cases of enforced or involuntary disappearances in Banihal area: APDP
This is the Press Statement of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons Today on the occasion of International Day of Human Rights, Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) submitted 132 cases of enforced or involuntary disappearances of Banihal area of Ramban district to the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC). The submitted cases are of [...]
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How Do You Think Of A Mass Grave?
By Suhail Akram When you think of a mass grave, what do you think? Do you think of it as a warm grassy patch of land in some distant meadow wedged between the lofty mountains with little or no tombstones and just rectangular pieces of clay protruding here and there numbered two hundred fifteen two [...]
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“Report Only First Step, Prosecution Of Suspects A Must”
By Heena Kausar Recently, the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) released a report Inquiry Report of Unmarked Graves in North Kashmir wherein they have confirmed presence of 2156 unidentified graves at 38 sites in North Kashmir. On 16 September 2011, the SHRC directed that the bodies should be identified using all available [...]
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Response to “They Brought Harud to My Voice”
By Shuja Malik Response to the preposterous and obnoxious write-up of Mr. Basharat Ali about the cancellation of Harud. The original article can be read at “They Brought Harud to My Voice“. Mr. Basharat, Truthfully speaking I am not able to figure out how to start my response because the last lines of your write [...]
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