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Parveena Ahangar rejects nomination for ‘Indian of the Year 2011′
This press release has been issued by the PARVEENA AHANGAR-led ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS FOR DISAPPEARED PERSONS Srinagar, December 10, 2011: On this ‘International Human Rights Day’, December 10, 2011, the APDP (Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons), Srinagar, wishes to state that there is something obscene and perverse in the manner the CNN-IBN has nominated [...]
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Not Just AFSPA, End The Culture Of Impunity From JK: APDP
This is a press release from the ASSOCIATION OF PARENTS OF DISAPPEARED PERSONS The Bund Amira Kadal, Srinagar – 190001, Jammu and Kashmir 28th October 2011 APDP feels that the recent announcement by the Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on the partial revocation of Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act (AFSPA) from some areas of Jammu and Kashmir [...]
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Bhagat Singh Is A Hero…Kashmiris Are Terrorists: Fiat India Website Hackers
Fiat, an Italian Automobile Manufacturer’s website was hacked by Pakistan Hackers on October 23 2011. They had added a news article in the website which showed their logo and had included a PDF file stating the cause of hacking the website. The hackers were quoted saying, Your website is not hacked for fun but [...]
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“Complete Apathy On The Part Of Indian Civil Society”
By Fahad Shah & Sheikh Saleem He is a human rights lawyer and a civil rights activist. He graduated in Science from Srinagar in the year 1972 and then got his LLB degree at the Law College Aligarh Muslim University in 1975. Imroz joined the Jammu and Kashmir High Court as a lawyer in 1978. [...]
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Meeting A Counterinsurgency Officer
By Farah Bashir In the course of the last ten years, that I have been away from home, I have met many people from various parts of the world. After I would introduce myself as a Kashmiri, either they have had something to share about Kashmir or they have wanted to hear about the life [...]
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Camouflaging International Probe
By Dr. Sheikh Showkat Hussain The ones who have been consistently shielding and patronizing perpetrators of oppression in Kashmir are floating the ideas about establishment of Truth and Reconciliation Commission as if Kashmir has been in arena of civil war and warring communities need to be reconciled to the existence of rivals and motivated to [...]
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“Their Father Will Join Them”
By Sheikh Saleem She spends most of her time in her kitchen garden at her father’s house in Bankoot, Bandipora. She lives in one of the rooms of this three-room house. She sells vegetables to run her household. She has five kids, to take care of. Their father is missing since the past eight years. [...]
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‘A thousand ft deep gorge where crows are eating corpses’ and other tales from Kashmir
By Muzamil Jaleel For the first time ever, the J-K Legislative Assembly discussed the issue of ‘unmarked graves’ for more than two and half hours. Srinagar: For the first time ever, the J-K Legislative Assembly discussed the issue of “unmarked graves’’ for more than two and half hours where a ruling NC legislator gave a [...]
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“Unknown and Unmarked Graves of Kashmir: Investigation, Prosecution, and Reparation”
This release comes from the INTERNATIONAL PEOPLE’S TRIBUNAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND JUSTICE IN INDIAN-ADMINISTERED KASHMIR (IPTK) Srinagar, September 26, 2011 To: Honourable Members Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly Government of Jammu and Kashmir Re.: Unknown and Unmarked Graves of Kashmir: Investigation, Prosecution, and Reparation We appeal to the Members of the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislative Assembly to [...]
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An open letter from Amnesty International to Members of the J-K Legislative Assembly
This is a public statement by AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AI Index: ASA 20/046/2011 26 September 2011 As the session of the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly opens in Srinagar, Amnesty International is writing to all members of the legislative assembly (MLAs) to raise human rights concerns in the house and ensure that such issues are not [...]
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Kashmir: Politics Of Disappearance
By Samreen Mushtaq (Reporting from Delhi) On September 19, 2011, the third anniversary of the Batla House ‘Encounter’, Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association organised a program “Kashmir: Politics Of Disappearance” in the FTK Auditorium of Jamia Millia Islamia University, New Delhi. Program had two speakers and there was screening of a documentary also. Speakers Parveena Ahangar [...]
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DNA Profiling Of Bodies In Unmarked Graves: SHRC
Fahad Shah In a significant development, the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) today called for the constitution of an “independent duly representative structured body having due credibility fully empowered to go in all questions regarding unmarked graves” and in North Kashmir districts these graves be identified through DNA testing and other modern scientific techniques. The [...]
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