Violence Update

Jan. 1989 to Jan. 31, 2012
Total Killings *	93,716
Custodial Killings	6,989
Civilians Arrested	119,789
Structures Arsoned/Destroyed	105,936
Women Widowed	22,763
Children Orphaned	107,436
Women gang-raped / Molested	10,021

January 2012
Total Killings *	4
Custodial Killings	0
Tortured/Critically Injured	29
Civilians Arrested	37
Structures Arsoned/Destroyed	0
Disappeared	0
Women Widowed	1
Children Orphaned	2
Women gang-raped / Molested	0

* Including custody

Minors detained without trial in occupied Kashmir: ACHR

Revoke AFSPA, demilitarise JK: Arundhati,‘People in Kashmir should be given right to self-determination’

Kashmir and the regional jigsaw puzzle for peace: M Yusuf Buch

Who is Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai?

SHRC report on unmarked graves in occupied Kashmir (full version)

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No respite in Indian state terrorism in IHK

India has been resorting to the worst kind of brutalities to suppress the Kashmiris' just struggle against its illegal occupation of Jammu and Kashmir. But despite utilizing all its resources and military might, it has not been able to intimidate the Kashmiri people into submission. Killings, arrests, abduction, molestation of women and other human rights violations by Indian troops have become order of the day in the occupied territory, turning the paradise on earth into a hell for its inhabitants.

UN must implement its resolutions on Kashmir

The people of Jammu and Kashmir have been facing the worst kind of Indian state terrorism for the past over six decades. Unfortunately, the international community could not play its due role in resolving the Kashmir dispute in accordance with the Kashmiris' aspirations. Even the world's august body, the United Nations Security Council, has failed to implement its resolutions on Kashmir passed several years ago.

Concern expressed over detention of minors in IHK

The New Delhi-based Asian Centre for Human Rights in its recent report said that minors were being detained without trial as they were not produced before courts in Indian occupied Kashmir. The report maintained that juvenile justice system was rotten in the occupied territory while the minor girls were sent to police lock ups or prisons in absence of a juvenile home for girls. The fact-finding report released by the ACHR after field visits to Srinagar, Budgam, Shopian, Pulwama, Islamabad, Kulgam, Ganderbal and Jammu districts from May to July 2010 followed up by updates said that a large number of children were detained under the draconian law, Public Safety Act, during the mass uprising in 2010. It further pointed out that the minors in pre-trial detention were assumed to be adults and were routinely lodged with adult criminals, placing them at very high risk of abuse, in clear violation of Indian national laws and international human rights standards.

Revocation of black law AFSPA?

The puppet Chief Minister of occupied Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, on October 21, this year, said that Armed Forces Special Act (AFSPA), a draconian law that provides unbridled powers to Indian troops in Jammu and Kashmir, would be revoked from some areas very soon. However, despite the passage of several weeks the announcement is yet to materialize, ostensibly due to the opposition by Indian army. It seems that the CM had made the declaration without considering the reality that he had no authority to take such a decision.

India must read writing on the wall

An eminent lawyer and member of Indian Supreme Court Bar, Prashant Bhushan was ruthlessly beaten by Hindu extremists on October 12 during a media interview in New Delhi. The Hindu zealots attacked Prashant Bhushan in his chamber for criticising draconian laws in occupied Kashmir and calling for resolving the Kashmir dispute through holding of a plebiscite.

Addressing the main problem is imperative

Pakistan and India have recently agreed to increase frequency of trade and bus service across the Line of Control. The two countries also decided to open bank branches on both sides of the LoC to do away with barter system of trade, increase fixed telephone lines for communication link between two parts of Kashmir and introduce trade permits for businessmen to facilitate their travel across the LoC. Both the nations have directed the officials engaged in the cross-LoC trade to raise necessary infrastructure and increase other facilities for enhancing the trade.

Kashmir dispute and apathy of International community

The people of Jammu and Kashmir have been struggling to get freedom from the illegal occupation of their soil by India for the past sixty-four years. They have rendered supreme sacrifices and are determined to offer more to take their just and indigenous struggle to its logical conclusion. The Indian occupational troops are continuously resorting to all kinds of repressive measures to suppress the Kashmiris' legitimate struggle for right to self-determination.

Black day observed

Like always, this year too, Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and the world over observed the Indian Independence Day, on 15th August, as Black Day to convey a message to the international community that India had usurped the Kashmiris' inalienable right to self-determination. The observance of the Black Day was also aimed at making it clear to New Delhi that it had no moral right to celebrate its Independence Day unless it ended its forcible military occupation over Jammu and Kashmir.

Mass graves in IOK: a cause of concern

The confirmation of unnamed mass graves by the Human Rights Commission in occupied Kashmir has sent shock waves across the globe. A report released after a probe by the investigation wing of the Commission revealed that it is beyond doubt that there are as many as 2156 unidentified bodies buried in unmarked graves at 38 sites in Baramulla, Bandipore, Handwara and Kupwara areas of North Kashmir. The report said that all these bodies with bullet injuries were handed over by the police to the local population for burial and were classified as unidentified militants (Mujahideen).