Page extended-protected

Human rights abuses in Kashmir

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Human rights abuses in Kashmir is an issue connected to the territory's disputed and divided status with respect to the conflict between India and Pakistan. The issue pertains to abuses in both the region administered by India (Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh) and the region administered by Pakistan (Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan), particularly since the beginning of the dispute in 1947 after the partition of India.

Indian Administered Kashmir

Line of Control

The Line of Control (LOC) is a military control line between Indian and Pakistani-controlled parts of Kashmir. The line does not constitute a legally international boundary but it is a de facto border, designated in 1948 as a cease-fire line, it divided Kashmir into two parts and closed the Jehlum valley route, the only entrance of the Kashmir Valley. This territorial division which, to this day still exists severed many villages and separated family members from each other.[1][2] The landmines planted by the Army alongsides of the line have killed scores of innocent people and left thousands as disabled. Without compensation, these disabled persons in the Indian Kashmir are fighting for the survival.[3]

During 2008 Kashmir unrest, the Hindu extremist groups and the supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party blocked the Srinagar-Jammu National highway (NH 1A). The only national highway which connects Kashmir Valley to the rest of India remained closed for several days and stopped the supply of essential commodities.[4][5][6] In response to the blockade, on 11 August 2008, under the leadership of Sheikh Abdul Aziz, 50,000 to 2,50,000 Kashmiri protesters attempted to cross the Line of Control to Muzaffarabad. The protesters were stopped at Uri which resulted in killing of fifteen people and hundreds injured when police and Indian paramilitary forces fired on them.[7][8][9] A slogan raised by the protesters was, Khooni lakir tod do aar paar jod do (Break down the blood-soaked Line of Control let Kashmir be united again).[10]

Jammu and Kashmir

Main article: Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir
Further information: Rape in Kashmir Conflict and List of massacres in Jammu and Kashmir

Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir, a disputed territory administered by India, are an ongoing issue. The allegations range from mass killings, forced disappearances,[11] torture,[12] rape and sexual abuse[13] to suppression of freedom of speech and bans on religious gatherings.[14] Several massacres have taken place in the region since 1990. The Indian Army, Central Reserve Police Force, Border Security personnel and various militant groups have been accused of committing severe human rights abuses against Kashmiri civilians.[13][15][16] As many as 100,000 Kashmiris have reportedly been killed in the conflict.[11] A WikiLeaks issue accused India of systemic human rights abuses, it stated that US diplomats possessed evidence of the apparent widespread use of torture by Indian police and security forces.[17] The Intercept in 2019 also reported of "systematic" torture perpetrated by Indian authorities without punishment or accountability.[18]

India rejected a UN panel on April 2019 asking about steps taken by New Delhi to address alleged abuses listed in their OHCHR report.[19] Amnesty International halted its operation in India on September 2020 after alleged government freezing of its bank accounts, which the rights group partly attributed to its calls for Indian authorities to account for "grave human rights violations in Delhi riots and Jammu & Kashmir."[20][21] India's National Investigation Agency raided several NGOs on October 2020 for alleged funding to terror activities in Jammu and Kashmir, the action was criticized by a spokesman for activist Parveena Ahanger as a case of "crackdown on the human rights defenders in Kashmir".[22]

Indian security forces

In September 1990 the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act was enacted in Jammu and Kashmir after passing in the Parliament of India to handle the rise in Kashmir Insurgency.[23] Human rights group Amnesty claim that the special powers under (AFSPA) gives the security force immunity from alleged violations committed,[24][25] and condemn it.[26][27][28] United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Navanethem Pillay has urged India to repeal AFSPA and to investigate the disappearances in Kashmir.[29]

On 26 February 2009 the Chief Minister stated the act should be repealed, the security forces however said that revoking the act would be detrimental to security and help terrorist moral, though the militancy has declined the act is still in force[30] International NGO's as well as the US state department have documented excesses such as disappearances, torture and arbitrary executions carried out during India's counter terrorism operations.[31]

Human rights watch has also accused the Indian Security Forces of using children as spies and messengers,[13] India army have targeted reporters and human rights activists, they have also been accused of committing over 200 rapes in an attempt to intimidate the local population.[32][33] Wikileaks cables are reported to contain material stating that the International Committee of the Red Cross briefed US officials in India, alleging that India "condoned" torture and that "sexual penetration" formed part of the maltreatment of victims. The ICRC alleged that of the 1296 detainees interviewed, 681 had reported of being tortured. Of those, 304 individuals complained of sexual torture/abuse.[34]

In 2005 Médecins Sans Frontières conducted a survey in Kashmir which found that the number of people who had witnessed a rape in Kashmir since 1989 was comparably far higher than the number of people who had witnessed a rape in other conflict zones such as Chechnya and Sri Lanka.[35] The survey found that 13% of respondents had witnessed rape and 11.6% of the interviewees had themselves been victims of sexual abuse since 1989.[36][37][35] Dr Seema Kazi states that rapes committed by Indian security forces outstrips the rapes committed by militants in both scale and frequency.[38] Professor William Baker stated at the 52nd United Nations Commission on Human Rights that rape in Kashmir was an active strategy of the Indian forces to humiliate Kashmiri people.[39]

In April 2002, authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir arrested three Indian paramilitary soldiers following the gang rape of 17-year-old girl.[40] In July 2011, there were anti-India protests in Srinagar against the alleged rape of a 25-year-old village woman in the village of Manzgam.[41]

In October 2011, the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir apologised for the release of names, parentages and addresses of 1400 rape victims. However, no details were revealed as to whether the rapes were by security forces, militants or part of crime.[42] Liaquat Ali Khan, an academic writer considers that these excesses in Kashmir do not have official sanction but are easy to commit because of the powers, to cordon and search villages and suburbs, that are vested to security forces by the law.[43] The authorities use association with terrorists to discredit the testimony of the victims, in case the association is established.[44] The security forces have carried out extrajudicial killings, assaults and other human rights violations.[33] An investigation by the Jammu and Kashmir state human rights commission has found 2730 bodies in unmarked graves at 38 sites in northern Kashmir. At least 574 of these were identified as being local people.[45]

In 2017, Major Leetul Gogoi was awarded a Chief of Army Staff Commendation Card by General Bipin Rawat for counter-insurgency operations, which included tying a Kashmiri protester to a jeep as an alleged human shield.[46][47][48]

Reports of torture emerged in 2019 during the Jammu and Kashmir lockdown, with 3,000 Kashmir residents purportedly detained on 29 August.[49] Activists on 25 September of the same year found that roughly 13,000 boys had been detained since 5 August, claiming that Indian authorities used excessive force during arrest and torture on some of the boys while imprisoned.[50]

A joint 2020 survey from New York's Skidmore College and a Kashmiri university found that 91% of polled college students wanted a complete withdrawal of Indian forces from the region.[51] According to the Associated Press on August 2019, most Kashmiris wanted independence from India or a merger with Pakistan.[52]

Militants

The rapes by Islamic militants have been reported since the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. On 22 October 1947, Pashtun militants invaded Baramulla in a Pakistan army truck, and raped women including European nuns.[53] In March 1990, the wife of a BSF inspector was kidnapped, tortured and gang-raped for many days. Then her body with broken limbs was abandoned on a road.[54] On 14 April 1990, a Kashmiri Pandit nurse from the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences in Srinagar was gang-raped and then beaten to death by terrorists. Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) took responsibility for the crime, accusing Bhat of informing the police about the presence of militants in the hospital.[55][56] On 6 June 1990, a lab assistant at the Government Girls High School Trehgam, was kidnapped and gang raped for many days. Then she was sliced at a sawmill.[57]

Prana Ganjoo was abducted with her husband in Sopore. She was gang-raped for a number of days before the both were killed in November 1990.[58]

From 1993, reports of rape by Islamic militants had increased, and there were many cases of the militants threatening to kill the family unless a woman was handed over to the militants. According to the HRW, the rape victims of militants suffered ostracism and there was a "code of silence and fear" that prevented people from reporting such abuse. According to the HRW, the investigation of case of rape by militants was difficult because many Kashmiris were reluctant to discuss it for the fear of violent reprisals.[55] The increase in number of rape cases resulted in an increased number of abortions, leading to one case of murder of doctor. The doctor was accused of being an informer by the Islamic groups Hezb-ul Mujahidin and Al Jehad.[55] In January 1991, a woman was forcibly asked to "marry" a militant. Her brother was killed when the family refused, and the girl was taken away.[54] On 30 March 1992, armed militants demanded food and shelter from the family of the retired truck driver in Nai Sadak, Kralkhud. The family complied, but the militants killed the owner and raped his daughter and wife. Then both the women were also shot dead.[55] Another women was forced to marry the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen commander Farooq Ansari in Kishtwar in 2000. In 2005, a 14-year-old Gujjar girl was abducted from Lurkoti village by the Lashkar-e-Taiba militants, and forced to marry one of them. She was gang-raped by her "husband" and his militant friends.[59] In December 2005, 15-year-old of Bajoni (Doda district) was forced to marry a Hizb-ul-Mujahideen militant, after her family was threatened with death.[59] Periodic reports by Amnesty, International Commission of Jurists, Human Rights Watch and the US state department had documented massive human rights violations by militant groups supported by Pakistan.[31]

Violence against Hindus
Main article: Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus

During the eruption of militancy in Kashmir valley, terrorism by majority sect specifically targeted the Hindu Kashmiri Pandits minority and violated their human rights.[60] Reports by Indian government state 219 Kashmiri pandits were killed and around 140,000 migrated due to militancy while over 3000 stayed in the valley.[61][62] Reports from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the International Commission of Jurists confirmed Indian reports of systematic human rights violations by Pakistan-backed militants.[31]

According to a report published by Asia Watch:

In Kashmir, the militant forces do not control territory and their military operations are generally characterised by ambushes of government forces and hit-and-run attacks for which they rely on weapons such as AK-47s, grenades, mines and other small arms. However, the guerrillas command considerable support throughout the valley and may take refuge among local civilians following these operations. Unable to locate or identify the militants, government forces routinely respond to the attacks by retaliating against entire villages, killing and assaulting civilians and destroying their property.[63]

According to a resolution passed by the United States Congress in 2006, Islamic terrorists infiltrated the region in 1989 and forced most of the Kashmiri Pandits to flee Kashmir. According to the report, the population of Kashmiri Pandits in Kashmir had declined from 400,000 in 1989 to 4,000 in 2011.[64] These groups targeted the Hindus in the Kashmir valley forcing an estimated 100,000 to flee.[32][65]

From 1994 to 1998, the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front were accused of ethnic cleansing by using murder, arson and rape as a weapon of war to drive out hundreds of thousands of Pandits from the region.[31][66] On 25 January 1998, 23 Kashmiri Pandits, including nine women and four young children living in the village of Wandhama, were killed by unknown persons wearing the uniforms of Indian Army soldiers, who had tea with them, waiting for a radio message indicating that all Pandit families in the village had been covered. Thereafter, they rounded up all the members of the Hindu households and then summarily gunned them down with Kalashnikov rifles.[67][68][69][70]

Hindu civilians were reported in 2005 to have been subject to rape and murder perpetrated by members of terrorist organisations like the JKLF and the Hizbul Mujahideen.[71] Muslim civilians who were considered political opponents of terrorists or those who were believed to be informers had also been raped or murdered.[72]

Pakistan-administered Kashmir

Azad Kashmir

Main article: Human rights abuses in Azad Kashmir

Pakistan, an Islamic Republic, imposes multiple restrictions on peoples' religious freedom.[73] Religious minorities also face unofficial economic and societal discrimination and have been targets of sectarian violence.[73]

The constitution of Azad Kashmir specifically prohibits activities that may be prejudicial to the state's accession to Pakistan, and as such regularly suppresses demonstrations against the government.[73] A number of Islamist militant groups operate in this area including Al-Qaeda, with tacit permission from Pakistan's intelligence.[73]

There have been allegations of human rights abuse. A report titled "Kashmir: Present Situation and Future Prospects", which was submitted to the European Parliament by Emma Nicholson, Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, was critical of the lack of human rights, justice, democracy, and Kashmiri representation in the Pakistan National Assembly.[74] According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence operates in Pakistan-administered Kashmir and is involved in extensive surveillance, arbitrary arrests, torture, and murder.[73] Generally this is done with impunity and perpetrators go unpunished.[73] The 2008 report by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees determined that Pakistan-administered Kashmir was 'Not free'.[73] According to Shaukat Ali Kashmiri, chairman of the International Kashmir Alliance, "On one hand Pakistan claims to be the champion of the right of self-determination of the Kashmiri people, but she has denied the same rights under its controlled parts of Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan".[75]

In December 2009, activists of nationalist Kashmiri groups staged a protest in Muzaffarabad to condemn the alleged rigging of elections and killing of an 18-year-old student during the elections. The killing had led to widespread protests in the district.[76]

Large protests erupted during the February 2012 Kohistan Killings where 18 people were ordered off from a bus and killed by gunmen on the Islamabad-Gilgit route. The act drew condemnation from the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.[77]

In October 2019, the People National Alliance organised a rally to free Kashmir from Pakistani rule. As a result of the police trying to stop the rally, 100 people were injured.[78]

Gilgit-Baltistan

The main demand of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan is a constitutional status to the region as a fifth province of Pakistan.[79][80] However, Pakistan claims that Gilgit-Baltistan cannot be given constitutional status due to Pakistan's commitment to the 1948 UN resolution.[80][81] In 2007, International Crisis Group stated that "Almost six decades after Pakistan's independence, the constitutional status of the Federally Administered Northern Areas (Gilgit and Baltistan), once part of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir and now under Pakistani control, remains undetermined, with political autonomy a distant dream. The region's inhabitants are embittered by Islamabad's unwillingness to devolve powers in real terms to its elected representatives. The rise of sectarian extremism is an alarming consequence of this denial of basic political rights".[82] A two-day conference on Gilgit-Baltistan was held on 8–9 April 2008 at the European Parliament in Brussels under the auspices of the International Kashmir Alliance.[83] Several members of the European Parliament expressed concern over the human rights violation in Gilgit-Baltistan and urged the government of Pakistan to establish democratic institutions and rule of law in the area.[83][84]

In 2009, the Pakistan government implemented an autonomy package for Gilgit-Baltistan which entails rights similar to those of Pakistan’s other provinces.[79] Gilgit-Baltistan thus gains province-like status without actually being conferred such a status constitutionally.[79][81] The direct rule by Islamabad is replaced by an elected legislative assembly and its chief minister.[79][81]

There has been criticism and opposition to this move in Pakistan, India, and Pakistan administrated Kashmir.[85] The move has been dubbed as an eyewash to hide the real mechanics of power, which allegedly are under the direct control of the Pakistani federal government.[86] The package was opposed by Pakistani Kashmiri politicians who claimed that the integration of Gilgit-Baltistan into Pakistan would undermine their case for the independence of Kashmir from India.[80] 300 activists from Kashmiri groups protested during the first Gilgit-Baltistan legislative assembly elections, with some carrying banners reading "Pakistan's expansionist designs in Gilgit-Baltistan are unacceptable". However, many people of Gilgit-Baltistan oppose integration into Kashmir. They want their region to be merged into Pakistan as a separate province.[80]

In the book, Gilgit-Baltistan and Its Saga of Unending Human Rights Violations, Alok Bansal elaborates on sectarian and ethnic marginalisation, absence of political rights, lack of representation in governance and economic exploitation in the region.[87] In 2018, Senge H Sering, president of the Institute for Gilgit Baltistan Studies, Washington DC, said that large parts of Gilgit-Baltistan are under the control of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and are used as terror centers.[88][89]

See also

Bibliography

  • Bansal, Alok (2018). Gilgit-Baltistan and Its Saga of Unending Human Rights Violations. Asian Eurasian Human Rights Forum. Pentagon Press LLP. New Delhi. ISBN 9789386618610

References

  1. ^ Ranjan Kumar Singh, Sarhad: Zero Mile, (Hindi), Parijat Prakashan, ISBN 81-903561-0-0
  2. ^ Women in Security, Conflict Management, a Peace (Program) (2008). Closer to ourselves: stories from the journ towards peace in South Asia. WISCOMP, Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama 2008. p. 75. Retrieved 27 December 2012.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ "Mines of war maim innocents". tehelka.com. Archived from the original on 13 February 2015. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  4. ^ Masoodi, Nazir; Razdan, Nidhi (24 June 2008). "J&K tense over land transfer to Amarnath shrine". NDTV. Retrieved 27 November 2012.
  5. ^ "It's not Jammu or Kashmir". Hindustan Times. Archived from the original on 17 October 2012. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  6. ^ "Protests in Delhi over Amarnath land transfer row". thaindia.com. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  7. ^ Troops open fire as 250,000 ‘march to Muzaffarabad’: APHC leader Sheikh Aziz killed
  8. ^ Amarnath row: 5 killed in firing at march to Pakistan-administered Kashmir
  9. ^ Tensions rise as Kashmiri leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz shot dead
  10. ^ Arundhati Roy (2008). Aazadi for Kashmir. Outlook publishing. p. 23. Retrieved 27 December 2012.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b Binish Ahmed (8 August 2019). "Call the crime in Kashmir by its name: Ongoing genocide". The Conversation.
  12. ^ "Kashmir: Indian Army accused of torture". BBC News (via Youtube). August 2019.
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b c Hartjen, Clayton; S. Priyadarsini (2011). The Global Victimization of Children: Problems and Solutions (2012 ed.). Springer. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-4614-2178-8.
  14. ^ "Indian forces clash with Kashmir Muslims marking holy month", AFP News Agency, 31 August 2020
  15. ^ "23 years on, Kashmiri Pandits remain refugees in their own nation". Rediff News. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  16. ^ Hindwan, Sudhir (1998). Verma, Bharat (ed.). "Policing the police". Indian Defence Review. Lancer. 13 (2): 95. ISSN 0970-2512.
  17. ^ Burke, Jason (25 December 2012). "WikiLeaks cables: India accused of systematic use of torture in Kashmir". The Guardian. London.
  18. ^ "The Indian Government Has Systematically Used Torture to Crush Opposition in Kashmir, New Report Finds". The Intercept. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  19. ^ Suhasini Haidar (21 May 2019). "India cuts off UN panel after Jammu & Kashmir report". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X.
  20. ^ "Amnesty International's claims of 'witch-hunt' a ploy to divert attention from illegalities: Govt". The Indian Express. 29 September 2020.
  21. ^ "Russia, China, Israel and Now India: Countries where Amnesty Has Had Rough Time with Govts". CNN-News18. 30 September 2020.
  22. ^ "NIA raids NGOs, trusts in Kashmir, Delhi in connection with terror funding case". The Hindu. 29 October 2020. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 10 August 2021.
  23. ^ “(PDF) The Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers Act, 1990” Archived 1 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine Indian Ministry of Law and Justice Published by the Authority of New Delhi
  24. ^ Egyesült, Államok (2008). Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007. House, Committee on Foreign Affairs, and Senate, Committee on Foreign Relations. p. 2195. ISBN 9780160813993.
  25. ^ "Crisis in Kashmir" Council on Foreign Relations retrieved 11 September 2012
  26. ^ INDIA: Summary of human rights concerns in Jammu and Kashmir, Amnesty International, 20 February 1995
  27. ^ "India: Security forces cannot claim immunity under AFSPA, must face trail for violations". Amnesty International. 7 February 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  28. ^ Global Press Institute (7 March 2012). "Mass Rape Survivors Still Wait for Justice in Kashmir". Thomson Reuters Foundation. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  29. ^ "India has duty to use global influence to speak out on human rights". United Nations News Service. 25 March 2009. Retrieved 7 March 2012.
  30. ^ Chatterji, Angana P. (2012). Ania Loomba, Ritty A. Lukose (ed.). South Asian Feminisms. Duke University Press. p. 195. ISBN 978-0822351795.
  31. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Forsythe, David P. (2009). Encyclopedia of human rights, Volume 1. Oxford University Press. p. 306. ISBN 978-0195334029.
  32. ^ Jump up to: a b Catherwood, Christopher; Leslie Alan Horvitz. Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide (1st ed.). Infobase. p. 260. ISBN 978-8130903637.
  33. ^ Jump up to: a b Karatnycky, Adrian (2001). Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties. Transaction. p. 616. ISBN 978-0765801012.
  34. ^ Allen, Nick (17 December 2010). "WikiLeaks: India 'systematically torturing civilians in Kashmir'". The Daily Telegraph. London.
  35. ^ Jump up to: a b Kazi, Seema (2014). "Rape, Impunity And Justice In Kashmir" (PDF). Socio-Legal Review. 10: 22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 November 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  36. ^ "Médecins Sans Frontières – Kashmir: Violence and Health" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  37. ^ Wailing Woes, Combat Law, 10 October 2007
  38. ^ Kazi, Seema (2014). "Rape, Impunity And Justice In Kashmir" (PDF). Socio-Legal Review. 10: 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 November 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  39. ^ Kazi, Seema (2014). "Rape, Impunity And Justice In Kashmir" (PDF). Socio-Legal Review. 10: 28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 November 2016. Retrieved 28 November 2016.
  40. ^ "SOUTH ASIA | Kashmir troops held after rape". BBC News. 19 April 2002. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  41. ^ correspondents in Srinagar (23 July 2011). "Kashmir protests alleged rape by soldiers". The Daily Telegraph. Australia. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  42. ^ "Kashmir leader apologises for rape victims list". The Straits Times. 1 October 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  43. ^ L. Ali Khan (2006). A theory of international terrorism: understanding Islamic militancy. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. pp. 33–. ISBN 978-90-04-15207-6. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  44. ^ Anuradha Kumar (1 January 2002). Human Rights. Sarup & Sons. p. 102. ISBN 978-81-7625-322-2. Retrieved 13 March 2012.
  45. ^ Watch, Human Rights (2012). World Report 2012: Events of 2011. Seven Stories. p. 329. ISBN 978-1-60980-389-6.
  46. ^ "Officer Who Tied Protester To Jeep As 'Human Shield' In Kashmir Honoured By Army", NDTV, 2017
  47. ^ "Bollywood glorifying use of human shields", TRT World, April 2018
  48. ^ Alok KN Mishra (31 March 2018). "kashmir: T-shirts glorifying use of human shield in Kashmir spark row". The Times of India.
  49. ^ "With meticulous planning, mass arrests and 'torture', Kashmir's autonomy was lost". The Independent. 1 September 2019. Retrieved 20 September 2020.
  50. ^ "Young boys tortured in Kashmir clampdown as new figures show 13,000 teenagers arrested". The Daily Telegraph. 2019.
  51. ^ Umar Lateef Misgar (12 March 2020). "Young Kashmiris want Indian forces to leave: Survey". Al Jazeera.
  52. ^ TIM SULLIVAN (15 August 2019). "Modi clamps down on Kashmir, and India loves him for it". Associated Press.
  53. ^ Wilhelm von Pochhammer (1981). India's road to nationhood: a political history of the subcontinent. Allied Publishers. pp. 512–. ISBN 978-81-7764-715-0. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  54. ^ Jump up to: a b Manoj Joshi (January 1999). The lost rebellion. Penguin Books. p. 64. ISBN 978-0-14-027846-0.
  55. ^ Jump up to: a b c d The Human Rights Crisis in Kashmir. Asia Watch, a division of Human Rights Watch. Lat accessed on 10 March 2012. Also published as a book: Asia Watch Committee (U.S.); Human Rights Watch (Organization); Physicians for Human Rights (U.S.) (1993). The Human rights crisis in Kashmir: a pattern of impunity. Human Rights Watch. p. 154. ISBN 978-1-56432-104-6. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  56. ^ "19/01/90: When Kashmiri Pandits fled Islamic terror". rediff. 19 January 2005. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  57. ^ Urvashi Butalia (2002). Speaking peace: women's voices from Kashmir. Zed Books. p. 187. ISBN 978-1-84277-209-6.
  58. ^ Ved Marwah; Centre for Policy Research (New Delhi, India) (1997). Uncivil wars: pathology of terrorism in India. HarperCollins. p. 381. ISBN 978-81-7223-251-1.
  59. ^ Jump up to: a b "Married to brutality". Deccan Herald. 25 February 2006. Archived from the original on 15 March 2014. Retrieved 10 March 2012.
  60. ^ Paradise lost. BBC news.
  61. ^ "Front Page : "219 Kashmiri Pandits killed by militants since 1989"". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 24 March 2010. Archived from the original on 25 March 2010. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  62. ^ "219 Pandits Killed in J&K Since 1989". news.outlookindia.com. Retrieved 3 August 2012.
  63. ^ James Goldston, Patricia Gossman (2000). Human Rights in India: Kashmir Under Siege. Asia Watch Committee (U.S.), Human Rights Watch (Organization). p. 19. ISBN 9780300056143. Retrieved 25 December 2012.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  64. ^ "Resolution on Kashmiri Pandits in US House". Rediff.com. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
  65. ^ Azad Essa (1 August 2011). "Kashmir: The Pandit question | India News". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  66. ^ Flint, Colin (2011). Introduction to Geopolitics (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 192. ISBN 978-0415667739.
  67. ^ IBTL. "The Massacre at Wandhama, Kashmir : 25 January 1998". Ibtl.in. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  68. ^ "23 Kashmiri Hindus Gunned Down on Republic Day Eve". Retrieved 25 November 2009.
  69. ^ "'I heard the cries of my mother and sisters',rediff.com". Rediff.com. 27 January 1998. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  70. ^ PRADEEP DUTTA Posted: 28 July 2002 at 0000 hrs IST JAMMU (28 July 2002). "I saw them kill my entire family IndianExpress.com". The Indian Express. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  71. ^ "19/01/90: When Kashmiri Pandits fled Islamic terro". Rediff.com. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  72. ^ Rape in Kashmir: A Crime of War, Asia Watch, 1993 (A Division of Human Rights Watch) & Physicians for Human Rights.
  73. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g Freedom in the World 2008 – Kashmir (Pakistan), United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2 July 2008, archived from the original on 8 October 2012
  74. ^ EU Report Rattles Pakistan, Outlook (magazine), 8 December 2006
  75. ^ European Parliamentarians express concern for Gilgit-Baltistan Archived 11 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine, German Information Center, New Delhi, 12 April 2008
  76. ^ Killing of youth in GB by-polls condemned, Dawn, 27 December 2009
  77. ^ "Tension prevails in GB after Kohistan killings". The News International. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
  78. ^ Shams, Shamil (23 October 2019). "Why calls for independence are getting louder in Pakistani Kashmir". Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  79. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Nadeem (21 September 2009). "Gilgit-Baltistan: A question of autonomy". The Indian Express. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  80. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Shigri, Manzar. "Pakistan's disputed Northern Areas go to polls". Reuters. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  81. ^ Jump up to: a b c "DAWN: Gilgit-Baltistan autonomy". Dawn. Pakistan. Archived from the original on 1 June 2012. Retrieved 25 December 2012.
  82. ^ Political unrest in Gilgit-Baltistan, Dawn, 26 July 2009
  83. ^ Jump up to: a b European MPs concerned at rights violations in Pakistani Kashmir, Thaindian News, 13 April 2008
  84. ^ European Parliament concerned on Gilgit-Baltistan, The Indian Express, 20 December 2009
  85. ^ Gilgit-Baltistan package termed an eyewash, Dawn, 30 August 2009
  86. ^ Discontents in Gilgit-Baltistan, Daily Times (Pakistan), 21 April 2010
  87. ^ Alok, Bansal (2018). Gilgit-Baltistan and its saga of unending human rights violations. Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum. New Delhi. ISBN 9789386618610. OCLC 1065023140.
  88. ^ "Pakistan uses Gilgit Baltistan territory to nurture terrorism: Senge H Sering". Yahoo News. ANI. 3 June 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.CS1 maint: others (link)
  89. ^ Rai, Siddhartha (5 May 2015). "We are under silent invasion from China, says rights activist Sering". India Today. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
Retrieved from ""