2000

January 07: In Srinagar, the biggest rally, marking the Kashmir and Al-Quds Day adopts a resolution emphasising the urgent need of facilitating liberation of Kashmir from India and restoration of Al-Quds from Israel's occupation.
January 10: Indian troops desecrate the local Mazar-e-Shuhada, which sparks furious anti-India demonstrations in Ganderbal. The troops dig out several graves during night.
January 11: Grish Chandar Sexena, the governor of occupied Kashmir, admits that the Indian army has lost the courage to combat the Mujahideen and the troops are afraid of confronting them. He states this while addressing a high level meeting of puppet regime in Srinagar.
January 13: The Special Representative of the Arch Bishop of Canterbury, London, calls for an international conference to settle the Kashmir issue. Addressing a press Conference in Islamabad, he said, Kashmiris must be associated with such a conference. He deplores that the world community is playing role of a silent spectator despite the fact that India has unleashed a reign of terror in occupied Kashmir.
Indian government gives approval for deployment of three more battalions of Border Security Force (BSF) in occupied Kashmir.
January 22: A two-day non-governmental Regional Conference in Calcutta after due deliberations concludes that peace and security will elude South Asia until the Kashmir issue is resolved. The conference is jointly sponsored by Akhil Bharat Ratna Sahba and Harijan Sang Sabha. Delegations from India, Nepal, Mianmar (Burma), Pakistan and occupied Kashmir take part in it.
January 24: Speaking at the launching ceremony of a book 'Kashmir in Conflict' at the House of Commons, in London, Lord Evebury and Lord Nazir Ahmad emphasize urgency of starting a dialogue to resolve the Kashmir issue. Victoria Schofield is the author of the book.
February 04: An International seminar on Kashmir issue is held in Islamabad Pakistan, as part of February 5 Solidarity Day's programme. Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, President of Pakistan presides the seminar, which is attended by large gathering of prominent intellectuals, journalists and other important personalities from home and abroad.
February 05: The Pakistani nation, for the first time ever joins the en-masse prayers at all levels at 10.00 a.m., to practically demonstrate, in a big way, their unswerving solidarity with struggling people of occupied Kashmir. Sirens are sounded all across the country at 9.58 a.m. and all traffic comes to a standstill. Kashmiris, all across occupied Kashmir, also join the people of Pakistan, and Azad Kashmir, in prayers en-masse at 10.00 a.m.
February 25: In a blood-curdling incident of state terrorism, Indian troops cross the line of control before dawn and massacre 14 innocent civilians in the Lanjot Kaonthi village in Kotli sub-sector along the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Kashmir. The troops storm Abdul Hameed's residence, where several residents of the area were attending a Khatm-e-Quran. They slit the throats of three persons and take away their heads along with them.
February 28: Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and abroad observe protest day against collective massacre of 14 Kashmiris at village Lonjot, in Nakial sector by Indian troops.
February 29: APHC leaders detained in Udhampur jail in occupied Kashmir go on hunger strike to protest against the inhuman treatment being meted out to them.
March 03: Protest demonstration is held in front of UN office in Dhaka, in Bangladesh, to condemn the killing of innocent Kashmiris by Indian army personnel across the LoC.
March 04: Notorious Indian armed agent, Seth Gujar, who killed 40 Jamat-e-Islami and other political activists, is shot dead in Islamabad area of occupied Kashmir.
March 09: Four Kashmiri students are expelled from Aligarh University in connection with demonstrations against occupied Kashmir's puppet Chief Minister, Farooq Abdullah, during his visit to the campus last month.
March 16: A seminar of leading Indian intellectuals and bureaucrats in Jammu, urges India to start meaningful talks with Pakistan. Farooq Abdullah, puppet Chief Minister of occupied Kashmir, addressing the seminar, admits that the list of Indian injustices, carried out against Kashmiris is long. Farooq Abdullah also reminds his Indian masters that it is India itself, which has taken the Kashmir issue to the United Nations. India and its leadership have pledged to Kashmiris their right to self-determination. However, later they reneged from this commitment.
March 19: The Kashmir police besiege the head office of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, in Srinagar and thoroughly, searches it, to prevent possible demonstrations on the occasion of US President Clinton's arrival in India.
March 21: Thirty-five Sikhs are shot dead by the agents of Indian secret agencies at village Chatti Singhpora, near Mattan in district Islamabad. The armed men drag the villagers out of their houses and gun them down after lining them in a single row. 34 persons dies on the spot while two other critically injured succumb to injuries at hospital.
March 22: The President of London based Council of Khalistan, Jagjit Singh Chauhan, also president of International Council of Sikhs, in an interview says Indian troops involved in massacre of 35 Sikhs in village Chatti Singpora, in Mattan area of Islamabad.
Life remains paralysed, all across occupied Kashmir, due to mourning strike against murder of 35 Sikhs by Indian troops.
March 28: APHC leader, Mir Waiz Umer Farooq leads a 40 vehicles caravan to Chatti Singhpora, to practically demonstrate solidarity with the Sikhs. A rally is also held at Vancouver, in North America, which is attended by over one thousand Sikhs and Muslims, who hold India responsible for the massacre of Sikhs in occupied Kashmir.
March 31: Crippling strike is observed across occupied valley on the “Daswan” (Antam Ardas) 10th Day of the massacre of Sikhs at Chatti Singhpora. All Parties Hurriyat Conference and Sikh Joint Action Committee give the joint strike call.
April 04: The APHC Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, senior APHC leaders, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt and Maulvi Abbas Ansari, are released under interational pressure after 8 months detention in notorious Jodhpur jail.
April 12: The issue of Indian atrocities on women in occupied Kashmir is raised at the UN Human Rights Commission, in Geneva. A seminar on Kashmir is also held in Geneva, which is addressed besides others, by human rights activist, Kiran Parker, a prominent lawyer.
April 15: In Geneva, the OIC Contact Group on Kashmir, supporting the Kashmiris' just cause, calls for restarting the dialogue on Kashmir dispute.
April 19: The United Nations Human Rights Commission, in its annual report, 1999, says that India is among those countries, which are not accessible to human rights activists. It specially mentions that human rights defenders face great risk in India.
April 20: The Kashmiri Pandits, at a convention in New Delhi, categorically support the Kashmir Liberation Movement. This is stated in a resolution adopted at the convention of Kashmiri Pandit Refugees Organisation (KPRO).
A Sikh member of Indian Parliament, Kartal Singh, creates furore in the house, at a time when the Home Minister, LK Advani was giving statement on Kashmir. He interrupts the Minister by remarking that Indian agencies were responsible for the massacre of Sikhs at Chatti Singhpora, in Islamabad.
April 22: The London based Amnesty International, in its annual report, presented to the session of the UN Human Rights Commission, in Geneva, says that massive human rights violations are going on in occupied Kashmir. It denounces India for turning the Kashmir's soil into a forbidden land for international human rights organisations, including Amnesty.
April 27: The puppet Chief Minister of occupied Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah, addressing a function, admits that Indian troops are engaged in massive human rights violations. His pro India National Conference party, in a meeting, demands judicial inquiry into the Indian massacre in occupied Kashmir from 1990 until now.
April 28: In Srinagar, the visiting member of the US House of Representatives, David Bonior tells APHC that there is no change in the American policy on Kashmir. Mr. Bonior strongly condemns killing of 35 Sikhs in Chatti Singhpora, custodial killing of five Muslims in Pathribal and shooting down of eight Muslim demonstrators by Indian troops at Brakpora, in Islamabad, in southern Kashmir.
April 29: Member of the US House of Representatives, David Bonior, in an interview with a Kashmiri newspaper on the conclusion of his two-day visit to Srinagar, says that the American President, Bill Clinton and the South African leader, Nelson Mandela, could play key role in settling the Kashmir issue.
May 07: An International Organisation, “Save the Children Fund” says that women and children are the worst affected by the military violence during the past eleven years of the ongoing upsurge for liberation in occupied Kashmir. Speaking on the occasion of launching of a report by head of the sociology department, in Kashmir University, the Director of the Fund, Martin Kelsey estimates that 15 to 20 thousand children and women have migrated to evade military oppression.
May 12: New Delhi based, United States diplomats' delegation, headed by the First Secretary (Political) in American Embassy in New Delhi, holds a meeting in Srinagar with APHC Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani and other APHC leaders. The APHC reiterates that it would not accept talks within the framework of Indian constitution and emphasises that the talks should be unconditional and tripartite, involving all the three parties to the dispute.
May 17: The New Delhi-based Military Attaches of 24 countries, were secretly brought to Srinagar and after a few hours' stay, were surreptitiously flown to Jammu.
May 18: The London based, Amnesty International demands release of all detained Kashmiri leaders and political workers by India. It also demands annulment of the draconian law, Public Safety Act; if it cannot be annulled then it should be amended as to conform to the standard of protection of human rights, demands Amnesty.
May 23: The British High Commissioner to New Delhi, Sir Rob Young says that the British government would encourage any move that strengthens the possibilities of solving the Kashmir issue. During his meeting with APHC leaders in Srinagar, he says that efforts for solving this issue are very essential.
June 06: A prominent liberation activist, Javed Ahmad Zargar is released after 11 years illegal detention in Indian jails.
June 11: In a seminar held in Srinagar, Admiral Ram Das, a former Indian Navy Chief, expresses solidarity with the people of occupied Kashmir for all their suffering.
June 26: A prominent Hindu religious leader, Jagatguru Shankar Acharia, during his Srinagar visit, strongly denounces trampling of human rights in occupied Kashmir. In his meeting with APHC chairman, Syed Ali Shah Gilani, Acharia says, how those responsible for death and destruction and disgracing of women, could talk of the supremacy of law.
June 27: APHC chairman, Syed Ali Gilani, strongly reacts to passage of the so-called autonomy resolution by the puppet assembly. He says that Kashmiris' demand is for the right to self-determination promised to them by Indian leaders and the International community and that autonomy is no issue for them.
June 29: The Amnesty International expresses its annoyance and concern over increasing incidents of custodial killings of youth in occupied Kashmir. The Amnesty in its latest communication to occupation authorities in occupied Kashmir, particularly mentions recent killing in custody of three Kashmiri youth, Abdul Hamid of Shopian, Abdul Qayyum of Pampore and Rafiq Ahmad Baqal of Sringar.
Puppet regime bans the manufacturing of the finest and costliest Shawls, Shahtoosh, under pressure by its Indian masters. Thousands of artisans are deprived of their livelihood.
July 04: Indian cabinet rejects the autonomy resolution passed by the so-called Assembly of occupied Kashmir on June 26.
July 18: Former puppet Chief Minister, Ghulam Muhammad Shah, supports the APHC's stand on Tripartite talks on Kashmir.
July 20: The veteran Hurriyat leader, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt, is elected as the new Chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference for two years' term.
July 24: Hizbul Mujahideen, a Mujahideen outfit, announces a “unilateral ceasefire” for three months beginning with immediate effect. It also expresses its willingness for an unconditional dialogue with the government of India for the peaceful resolution of the Kashmir dispute.
July 25: The lawyers in Sopore and Baramullah, boycott the courts in protest against murder of the eminent lawyer Ghulam Jeelani at the hands of armed agents of the Indian army.
July 31: An American Congressman, David E. Bonior, in an article in Washington Post says that reduction of the fear of nuclear conflict in South Asia depends on resolving Kashmir crisis. He suggests that President Clinton must now appoint a special envoy for Kashmir.
August 01: Thirty five people including 20 Amarnath Yaatris (pilgrims) are killed and more than sixty injured, some of them critically due to Indian troops indiscriminate firing in a crowded bazaar of Phalgam, a tourist spot in the south of occupied Kashmir.
August 03: Amarnath Yatris hold Indian paramilitary forces responsible for the massacre in Pahalgam. While talking to newsmen, Shanker Lal, a resident of Agra, Ajay, a driver from Gujarat as well as a seriously injured Yatri at Barzala Hospital, Srinagar, confirm that Indian Central Reserve Police Force opened fire on people in Phalgam.
Chief of Kashmir Mass Movement, Farida Behanji, is released after 5 years of illegal detention.
August 17: Switzerland Branch of the Jammu and Kashmir Youth Alliance stages a protest demonstration and a sit-in in front of UN office in Geneva, against the military repression in occupied Kashmir.
August 27: The Amnesty International calls for respecting the fundamental rights, particularly the right to life and the security of person in occupied Kashmir. The call is made in a letter to the puppet Chief Minister Farooq Abdullah.
August 29: Rashtriya Rifles desecrates a graveyard of (martyrs) in Bandipora by removing gravestones and other signs to pave the way for establishing an army camp in the area.
London based Amnesty International, in a statement in connection with the Day of the Disappeared People, demands of the Indian government to investigate the rising number of disappeared persons in occupied Kashmir. It further says, since 1990, up to 1000 people have disappeared after being arrested by Indian troops.
September 02: In a letter to the UN Secretary General Kofi Anan, the All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt, mentions about the plight of Kashmiris. He particularly mentions that the Kashmiris are being subjected to Indian state terrorism.
September 05: Senior All Parties Hurriyat Conference leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz is released after an imprisonment of eight years. A prominent freedom fighter, Muhammad Yasin Bhat is also released in Srinagar after eight years of illegal detention.
September 06: Former Indian Union Minister, Prof Saifuddin Soz, addressing a press conference in Srinagar says, the Indian plan to carry out census in occupied Kashmir is conspiracy to reduce the Muslim majority.
September 09: The employees of puppet administration in occupied Kashmir hold a conference in Srinagar and ask the 22,000 of their colleagues to refuse census duty in the held territory.
September 11: The employees of puppet regime in occupied Kashmir boycott the census operation that is to begin in the state after a long span of 20 years. Strong opposition is voiced by political and other effective quarters against the census.
September 14: The OIC contact group in New York announces to appoint an envoy on Kashmir and to set-up a team to see for itself the prevailing situation in occupied Kashmir.
September 16: The Amnesty International calls upon US President Bill Clinton to take up with India large-scale human rights violations in occupied Kashmir. The Executive Director of Amnesty International, US, William F. Schulz says, the United States must take up with India the civilian sufferings as a result of human rights violations in Kashmir.
September 17: The Census Director of the puppet regime, Feroz Ahmad, in a press conference, admits that boycott by the employees of puppet administration and opposition by influential Kashmiri circles made the census operation in occupied Kashmir impracticable.
September 18: Showkat Ahmad Bakhsi, a prominent liberation leader, is released under the directions of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court after nearly a decade of illegal detention.
The outgoing Indian Army Chief, General V. P. Malik, advises his government to initiate political process instead of entirely relying on armed forces in dealing with the situation in occupied Kashmir.
September 20: A German Magazine, 'Focus', reports the number of Kashmiris disappeared in custody to be in thousands. The magazine carries a report which puts the number of the Kashmiris killed by Indian troops at 70,000.
September 27: A delegation of the Association of the Relatives of the disappeared Persons briefs the visiting European diplomats team in Srinagar, about the overall human rights situation in occupied Kashmir.
September 28: The World Assembly of Muslim Youth in its two-day conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, calls for trade and economic sanctions against India to pressurise it to resolve the Kashmir issue.
October 05: A prominent liberation activist, Manzoor Ahmad Sofi, is released after 10-years of illegal detention from Kot Bhalwal Jail.
October 17: A 4-member US delegation of diplomats holds a meeting with the All Parties Hurriyat Conference Chairman, Professor Abdul Ghani Butt in Srinagar and discusses the Kashmir issue.
October 18: Several members of puppet Assembly of occupied Kashmir accuse the Indian troops of indiscriminate custodial killings and genocide across the valley and Muslim-dominated areas of Jammu.
October 28: One-man inquiry commission of Justice S. R. Pandian holds the Indian troops guilty of opening fire on peaceful procession at Brakpora, Islamabad in south Kashmir on April 3, killing 8 people and injuring 30.
November 25: In Jammu, Muhammad Yasin Butt is sentenced by a TADA court to 17 years and three months rigorous imprisonment. Rs3000 fine is also imposed on him in a false case.
November 26: India declares so-called unilateral ceasefire during the holy month of Ramadan but despite the ceasefire troops continue custodial killings, siege, search and crackdown operations.
December 26: Indian troops destroy Srinagar's Batwara market after Badamibagh car bomb blast in which nine troops died and 25 suffered injuries. More than 100 shops are completely destroyed while 20 shops are burnt down.