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India fails to check human rights violations: Human Rights Watch
NEW DELHI (IANS-TOI 29/01/12): Custodial killings, police abuse including torture, and failure to implement policies aimed at protecting vulnerable communities marred India’s record in 2011, according to the Human Rights Watch World Report.
The global report released on Monday pointed out that immunity for abuses committed by security forces also continued, particularly in Jammu and Kashmir, the northeast, and areas facing Maoist insurgency.
However, the report found that killings by the Border Security Force (BSF) along the Indo-Bangladesh border decreased dramatically.
“India, the More >
Kashmir and India’s Republic Day
In a press release, SOS Children’s Village Canada quoting Gulf News and Human Rights Watch World Report 2012 mentions the discovery of 2,730 bodies in 38 unmarked graves and most of these bodies beyond recognition are believed to be the disappeared thousands consumed in Indian torture chambers. Government of India, initially, remained tight lipped but later came out to suggest an impartial investigation which is yet to come forth.
Due to severe weather conditions and snowfall, the connectivity of Kashmir with India in spite of spending millions on defence, maintenance More >
Police finds 421 unmarked graves in Baramulla
SRINAGAR, Jan 27: Police in Baramulla district of north Kashmir has completed the counting of unmarked graves and has found 421 such graves in the district. The counting in Kupwara and Bandipora district is yet to be completed and the process is gong on. The documentation of mass graves by police started after the State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) took cognizance of the report by International Peoples Tribunal Kashmir, which was an expose on the high number of unmarked graves in Kashmir Valley. After the exposure the documentation was started under “internal administrative order” by the More >
Kupwara shuts on 1994 massacre anniversary
SHAHID RAFIQ Kupwara, Jan 27: A complete shutdown was observed on Friday in Kupwara against the massacre of 27 civilians allegedly by the soldiers of 15 Punjab and Gudwal regiment on this day in 1994. The call for the shutdown was given by the Hurriyat Conference led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani. All the shops and business establishments across the district remained closed. However traffic plied normally. Bar Association Kupwara also suspended their work. Fateh-Khawani for the deceased was held in all the Masjids of the district after the Friday prayers. “Army fired on civilians to avenge the More >
Inshallah Kashmir: movie triggers new controversy
By Andrew Buncombe Friday, 27 January 2012 at 12:48 pm Indian filmmaker Ashvin Kumar is used to controversy. His previous documentary, Inshallah Football, about the conflict in Kashmir and its lingering ramifications, was refused a certificate by the censors. With the launch of his latest film, Inshallah Kashmir:Living Terror, he has sought to avoid that problem by putting the film directly online.
Kumar uploaded his film on January 26th – India’s Republic Day – and by early this afternoon, it had already been viewed 25,000 times. “There were two agendas for putting it online,” he told me. More >
Police declines to provide info under RTI: APDP
Srinagar, Jan 25: Police has declined to provide information under RTI to Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) regarding the unmarked graves and mass graves in all the districts of Jammu and Kashmir. The APDP had filed an application under RTI on October 17, 2011, with Public Information Officer State Home Department. The application was regarding unmarked graves and mass graves in all the districts of Jammu and Kashmir. The State Home Department vide its letter no: Home/RTI/2011/1659 dated: 24th October 2011, transferred the application to the office of Director General of More >
Kashmir observe India’s Republic Day as Black Day
Srinagar, Jan.26 :Complete strike was observed in occupied Kashmir as Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and across the world marked India’s Republic Day, today, as Black Day.
The day was observed to convey to the international community that India’s continued denial of Kashmiris’ right to self-determination belied its claim of being a democratic republic.
The call for observance of the Day was given by the All Parties Hurriyet Conference, veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, and High Court Bar Association of occupied Kashmir.
Markets remained closed and roads wore More >
Indian Army tortures Kashmir village in freezing winter night
Srinagar: There was a sudden crackdown of a vast portion of village Nehama Tehsil Pulwama in south Kashmir by a huge contingent of army personnel in their war-dress on 24th January(Tuesday) continuing for 4-hours in the evening till 9 pm without any apparent reason. The scores of persons including old-aged persons, men and women along with their children and day-old babies were forced out of their homes and kept under the open-sky in the freezing cold. They were allowed to enter their homes only after the 4-hour long search was over. Why these people were subjected to this inhuman treatment, More >
Security beefed up for Jan 26 in Kashmir Valley
SRINAGAR Jan 23: People have started to suffer immensely due to the tight security arrangements across the city and other major towns of Kashmir as the security has been beefed up across valley in run-up to the Republic Day event celebrated on January 26. Reports said that police and CRPF have further intensified the security apparatus in Srinagar and other districts of the valley to prevent any possible militant attacks and to ensure trouble free January 26 celebrations across the valley. Strict security arrangements have been put in place in and around the Bakshi Stadium, the main venue of More >
SC India Slams Army Over Pathribal Kashmir Fake Killings
New Delhi, Jan 23: The Supreme Court Monday severely criticized the Indian Army for its indecision whether it wanted to take action against its officers involved in the Pathribal fake encounter case. The apex court issued a notice to the defense secretary and the home secretary in the March 25, 2000 encounter at Pathribal in South Kashmir in which seven innocent civilians were gunned down after being labeled as Lashker-e-Taiba militants.
The court asked the Army if it would initiate court martial proceedings against the officers involved in the case. The Centre has to decide whether five Army More >
Bemina boy in custody since 2010
Court directions on release violated: Counsel D A RASHID Srinagar Jan 24: Even though the State High Court has quashed his detention order, a Bemina boy continues to be in police lock up since 2010 on charges of stone pelting. Police had arrested Tariq Ahmed son of late Ghulam Muhammed Dagga of Bemina here in October 2010 on the charges of stone pelting. Later PSA was slapped against the boy and he was lodged in Kot Balwal Jail Jammu. A bench of High Court quashed the detention order of Tariq after his family challenged it by filing a petition in the Court through their counsel Shabir Ahmad More >
Indian filmmaker documents tortures in Kashmir
22 Jan 2012 By: DANISH ZARGAR SRINAGAR, Jan 21: If this could be some indication of the possible change in the Indian civil society vis-à-vis Kashmir issue, an Indian film maker, has video-graphed the brutal tortures meted out to the Kashmiris by the forces during the armed struggle.
Ashvin Kumar, an independent filmmaker who previously produced ‘Inshallah, football’ and ‘little terrorist’, has come up with ‘Inshallah Kashmir: Living terror’, documenting the disheartening stories of the Kashmiris, mostly ex-militants, who were brutally tortured by the forces. The film will be screened online More >