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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 long and heartrending description of how his neighbors and friends disappeared after being arrested by security forces from home, another NC legislator … Read entire article »
Filed under: Politics
DSU On Kishtwar Arrests For Delhi High Court Blast
Expose and defeat the Indian state’s nefarious designs to implicate Kashmiri youth in the Delhi High Court Blast!! Hours after the bomb blast at the Delhi High Court on 7thSeptember, the Indian ‘investigative’ agencies began the witch-hunt of Muslims that has become usual after every such bomb blast. Random arrests and illegal detentions were made the next day onwards from different parts of India and Kashmir. A 14-year-old boy from Jharkhand was arrested by the West … Read entire article »
Filed under: News
Rahul Gandhi Visit: Dissent In Chains?
By Fahad Shah It is not disheartening to hear that a good number of students were in the Convocation Hall of Kashmir University, on Monday, to interact with the Congress poster-boy, Rahul Gandhi— the General Secretary of the party. There is something which is hard to make them understand. They joined him, thinking that he may listen to and solve their grievances. But when his great-grandfather, grandmother, father didn’t listen to Kashmiris for decades then what are you expecting from him? A revolution! While talking to journalists he said: “I have come to Kashmir in connection the membership drive to bring youngsters into the political stream and [to] listen to them.” So the lobby of youth which listened to him patiently might be celebrating, for they are part of Congress now. They … Read entire article »
Filed under: Opinion
“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 address the following urgent issues in light of the findings put forward by the State Human Rights Commission of Jammu and Kashmir (SHRC) pertaining to unknown and unmarked graves. The SHRC investigated unmarked graves in Bandipora, Baramulla, Kupwara, and Handwara districts across 38 graveyards and verified 2,156 unidentified bodies in unidentified graves, as documented in its report of July 2011. The SHRC’s report acknowledges and corroborates the research documented in the report, BURIED EVIDENCE, released by the International People’s Tribunal … Read entire article »
Filed under: News
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 ignored during the session. Although there appears to be a consistent decrease in the overall numbers of members of armed groups operating in Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), human right violations continue to remain a significant and widespread concern in the state. Amnesty International calls on all MLAs to raise human rights issues during the assembly session and call upon the state government to take immediate action required to remedy the situation. In particular, Amnesty International asks you to raise … Read entire article »
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In That Pursuit We Ignore Small Things
By Shuja Malik Nature offers countless things to revel in. I talk of the things we can relish aesthetically or appreciate the beauty of their occurrence. Sunrises, sunsets, full moons, crescents, scenic beauties, flowing rivers, sea waves, glaciers, hot springs, rainfall and snowfall, the sounds that snowfall generates, the blizzards, the snow storms, green fields, scenes inside the world of a nest, making of a nest, view of a suckling calf, animals moving in herds and … Read entire article »
Filed under: Opinion
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