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    2010

    January 2: The Coordination of Democratic Rights Organizations, a federation of twenty civil liberties and democratic rights groups from across India, in a statement demands an immediate identification, prosecution and arrest of the men in uniform involved in Shopian double rape and murder incident.

    2009

    January 15: The Human Rights Watch in its 2009 annual report released in New York castigates India for ignoring calls to conduct independent investigation to determine the fate of thousands of people who have disappeared during the last two decades in occupied Kashmir. The organization points out that India is continuing to provide extra-ordinary powers to its troops and grant them immunity from prosecution. The report says that the Indian paramilitary forces are responsible for extra judicial killings, arbitrary detention, due process violations, and ill treatment in custody in Jammu and Kashmir and in Indian state of Manipur. Criticizing laws such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, it points out that these laws p[rovide impunity to Indian police and troops.

    2008

    January 15: A Kashmiri youth Sonaullah is awarded 31 years imprisonment by the TADA/POTA court Jammu on fake charges.

    2007

    January 06: Kashmiri leaders including veteran Hurriyet leader Syed Ali Gilani in their meetings with the visiting members of the European Parliament, in New Delhi, underline the need of the European Union's effective role in resolving the Kashmir dispute in accordance with Kashmiris' aspirations.

    2006

    • January 02: Ahead of its Pakistan visit All Parties Hurriyet Conference leader says he would discuss the Kashmir leader issue with President Pervez Musharraf and other Pakistani leaders.

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    Sacrilege of Mosques & Shrines

    In December 20, 2001, US scholar, Prof William Baker in his book Kashmir Happy Valley; Valley of Death, writes that Indian forces have closed more than 200 religious institutions and denied some 20,000 students the privilege of Islamic education. He saw charred remains of three destroyed Mosques. The remaining foundation structures and window frames were full of bullet holes. A Mosque near his houseboat was the scene of another slaughter by Indian forces. Fifteen Muslim worshippers including women, elderly men and children were killed in the Mosque with automatic weapons. 

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