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We Talk About Human Rights But Then Why We Always Forget Kashmir
Human right abuse in Jammu Kashmir include mass killings, enforced disappearances, torture, rape, and sexual abuse to political repression and suppression of freedom of speech but still, we are silent.
The Indian Army and various separatist militant groups have been accused and held accountable for committing severe human rights abuses against Kashmiri civilians. some rights groups say more than 100,000 people have died since 1989 while the official figures from Indian sources state the estimates of the er of civilians killed due to the insurgency as above 50,000.
After the Partition of India, during October–November 1947 in the Jammu region of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, many Muslims were massacred and others drove away to West Punjab. The killings were carried out by extremist Hindus and Sikhs, aided and abetted by the forces of Maharaja Hari Singh. An estimated 20,000–100,000 Muslims were massacred.
On 21 January 1990, a disgusting action was taken by India. Gawkadal massacre where the Indian paramilitary troops of the Central Reserve Police Force opened fire on a group of Kashmiri protesters in what has been described by some authors as “the worst massacre in Kashmiri history” along with the Bijbehara Massacre in 1993. At least 28 people were killed(according to…
