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Human Rights, Chronology, Miscellaneous, UN Resolutions

2011

January 04: The veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani, in a letter to the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon urges him to call an immediate session of the UN Security Council and pass an additional resolution to press India to hold a plebiscite in Jammu and Kashmir.

January 05: Kashmiris on both sides of the Line of Control and the world over observe the Right to Self-determination Day to remind the international community that the UN resolutions on Kashmir remain unimplemented even after the passage of more than six decades.

2010

January 2: The Coordination of Democratic Rights Organizations, a federation of twenty civil liberties and democratic rights groups from across India, in a statement demands an immediate identification, prosecution and arrest of the men in uniform involved in Shopian double rape and murder incident.

2009

January 15: The Human Rights Watch in its 2009 annual report released in New York castigates India for ignoring calls to conduct independent investigation to determine the fate of thousands of people who have disappeared during the last two decades in occupied Kashmir. The organization points out that India is continuing to provide extra-ordinary powers to its troops and grant them immunity from prosecution. The report says that the Indian paramilitary forces are responsible for extra judicial killings, arbitrary detention, due process violations, and ill treatment in custody in Jammu and Kashmir and in Indian state of Manipur. Criticizing laws such as the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, it points out that these laws p[rovide impunity to Indian police and troops.

2008

January 15: A Kashmiri youth Sonaullah is awarded 31 years imprisonment by the TADA/POTA court Jammu on fake charges.

Troops martyr 382 Kashmiris including 17 in custody in 2009

Islamabad, January 01 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops in their continued acts of state terrorism, martyred 382 innocent Kashmiris including 17 in custody during the year 2009.

Troops kill 12 innocent teenagers since Jan 2010: report

Srinagar, June 29 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, as many as 12 innocent Kashmiris, mostly teenagers have been killed since January, this year, due to the use of brute force by Indian troops on peaceful demonstrators.

Statements of world organizations regarding HR abuses in IHK

Indian authorities must release 14-year-old held in Kashmir without charge
18 November 2010
 
Amnesty International has urged authorities in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir to release a 14-year-old child who has been detained without charge or trial for seven months, for allegedly taking part in anti-government protests.
 

2007

January 06: Kashmiri leaders including veteran Hurriyet leader Syed Ali Gilani in their meetings with the visiting members of the European Parliament, in New Delhi, underline the need of the European Union's effective role in resolving the Kashmir dispute in accordance with Kashmiris' aspirations.

2006

  • January 02: Ahead of its Pakistan visit All Parties Hurriyet Conference leader says he would discuss the Kashmir leader issue with President Pervez Musharraf and other Pakistani leaders.
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