Human Rights in South Asia
What’s the Difference between Nagorno-Karabakh & Kashmir?
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Pakistan’s position of supporting Azerbaijan’s territorial integrity has come under criticism by some in India who claim that it’s hypocritical for Islamabad to endorse the Kashmiris’ right to self-determination while denying the same to the majority Armenian inhabitants of Occupied Nagorno-Karabakh, but these two conflicts are actually very
Read Full ArticleMalevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India..
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Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India by KS Komireddi – review A blistering polemic exposes the country’s malaise under Narendra Modi Almost a decade ago, I travelled to a small town in Gujarat, a state in the west of India, to hear
Read Full Article0 comments | by Nayeema Ahmad Mahjoor
While ending the special status of Jammu and Kashmir last year, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi had assured people that the time had now come when gold would grow instead of grass, milk canals would flow in exchange for water in the rivers and springs and the skies would sight flight of Kashmiris not the birds. Article 370 of the Constitution of India, tha
Read Full ArticleNo peace until Kashmiris' rights are fulfilled
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India's actions in Kashmir nothing less than a holocaust, says speaker in webinar on conflict in disputed region Peace that is not based on the principle that governments derive all their just power from the governed can never – and should never – last, speakers said at a webinar on the Kashmir issue on Friday.
Read Full ArticleThe Neverending Holocausts of the Neoliberal Order
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Biochemist, writer, humanitarian activist, and artist, Gideon Polya has had a selection of his essays gathered into a compendium titled US-Imposed Post-9/11 Muslim Holocaust & Muslim Genocide (Korsgaard Publishing, 2020). The compendium is important because it brings to
Read Full ArticleAmnesty accuses Indian police of 'grave abuses' in Delhi riots
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Security forces patrol past charred vehicles in a riot affected area following clashes between people demonstrating for and against a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, February 27, 2020 Reuters Six months on, there has been no investigatio
Read Full ArticleASSESSING KASHMIR ON AUGUST 5, 2020
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Today is the first anniversary of India’s single-handed introduction of the way they think the Kashmir problem would be solved. On 5 August 2019, the Government of India revoked the special status of special autonomy, granted under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution to Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir—a region administered by India as a result of the first Indo-Pakistani war 1947-4
Read Full ArticleIndian Brutality in Kashmir – A Critical Visual Reflection
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On the morning of 1 July 2020, a 65 years old person (identified as Bashir Ahmed) was shot dead in Srinagar suburbs, allegedly by the Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Many are killed as a routine in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) daily and rarely form part of the Indian media breaking news. However, this routine and “insignificant event”, instant
Read Full ArticleCradled by Conflict: The Plight of Children in Kashmir
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Kashmir has always been in grip of one or another kind of crisis. The dark clouds of uncertainty loom over the echoing mountains from last several decades. The prolonged conflict has transformed the beautiful valley into a devastating dystopia, forcing the whole community to fight a life and death battle against the threat of extinction from the tyrant tides of war.
Read Full ArticleMob Attack: Two Christian Youth Beaten, Cross Desecrated in Jharkhand
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Two young Christian missionaries were abused and assaulted by a mob and taken to the police station in a village named Belgarisin Dhanbad, a district in the Indian state of Jharkhand. The attack which took place on the 22nd of June happened at the new coal mine colony in Baliapur CD Block. Speaking to Persecution Relief, Br. Arul Jothi- Founder Secretary of Youth Mi
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