In this report, Human Rights Watch charges that human rights violations by all parties in Kashmir have been a critical factor behind the current conflict. The report says that if those violations had been seriously addressed at any time over thelast ten years, the risk of amilitary confrontation between India and Pakistan might have been reduced.
❱ Read more: Behind the Kashmir Conflict – Human Right Watch – 01-07-1999
India: Hold Abusers in Kashmir Accountable – Human Rights Watch – 09-11-2009
(New York) – The newly elected Jammu and Kashmir government should hold security forces to account for human rights violations as an important confidence-building measure to promote lasting peace, Human Rights Watch said today in a letter to Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Human Rights Watch called for an independent, transparent, and time-bound commission to investigate allegations of enforced disappearances. The commission should be empowered to summon members of the security forces to testify and to order forensic investigations to establish the identities of those buried in unmarked graves as unidentified foreign militants.
❱ Read more: India: Hold Abusers in Kashmir Accountable – Human Rights Watch – 09-11-2009