International Journal in Management & Social Science
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 2

Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir

  • Author:
  • Ashish Kumar Dixit
  • Total Page Count: 10
  • Page Number: 175 to 184

Post Doctoral Fellow, Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi

Online published on 7 June, 2014.

Abstract

This article is about Human rights abuses in Indian-administered portion of Kashmir. Indianadministered portion of Kashmir is suffering with every moment death of human rights. Mass killings, forced disappearances, torture, rape & sexual abuse to political repression & suppression of freedom of speech have become an integral part of their day to day life. The Indian central reserve police force, border security personnel and various militant groups have been accused & held accountable for committing severe human rights abuses against Kashmiri civilians. The Kashmiri insurgents are of the view that Indian-administered portion of Kashmir is a part of Pakistan. Hence only the Pakistanis have the right to live on that land. But the question arises how far it is appropriate to create one's existence at the cost of crushing the existence of those who are quite innocent & have no fault of their own, except that they were given birth on that land. This chaos has put innumerable questions before us demanding serious attention & immediate solution.

Keywords

Abuses, disappearances, rape and sexual abuse, fake encounter, extrajudicial killings, Mass graves, half-widows