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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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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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Dead Men Talking
By Raheel Khursheed They say that after much is said and done, much is said than done. As more and more unmarked graves crop up in Kashmir, the lip service to the skeletal remains of those buried in them resonates across the political class. The idea of justice to those buried inside these graves, or [...]
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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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“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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“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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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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