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Armed forces in Kashmir are detaining children and molesting women and girls amid a state-wide blackout, report claims
Alexandra Ma
Aug. 15, 2019, 7:12 AM
Kashmiri boys cycle in an empty street during restrictions in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, on August 14, 2019. Danish Siddiqui/Reuters
- Kashmir is in its 11th day of a state-wide curfews and a total internet and phone blackout.
- A group of economists and activists published a report Wednesday saying that security forces in the region have abducted hundreds of boys in midnight raids and detained them.
- Officials also molested women and girls during those raids, the report said. Forces have also been firing pellet guns at civilians, the researchers said.
- The report was compiled using conversations with hundreds of people in and around Kashmir state, all of whom were too afraid to speak on camera for fear of Indian government persecution.
- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Thursday that his government's actions in Kashmir are liberating women, girls, and marginalized communities.
Security forces in Kashmir have abducted hundreds of boys in midnight raids and molested women and girls amid the state's 11-day blackout, a group of Indian economists and activists said in a new report.
Regional police, army, and paramilitary forces have raided hundred of homes around the region and arbitrarily snatched "very young schoolboys and teenagers" from their beds from as early as August 5, the investigation — titled "Kashmir Caged" and published Wednesday— said.
https://www.businessinsider.com/kash...-report-2019-8
'Scared for my life': politician's daughter pleads for outside help for Kashmir
State is in panic over India’s removal of its status, says Iltija Mufti from under house arrest
Rebecca Ratcliffe in Delhi and Michael Safi
Sat 17 Aug 2019 03.00 EDT
Iltija Mufti, daughter of Kashmir’s former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti. Photograph: Supplied The daughter of one of Kashmir’s most prominent politicians has pleaded with the international community to act over an unprecedented clampdown on millions of people in the territory, warning that Kashmiris are being “caged like animals” and treated as “cannon fodder”.
Speaking to the Guardian while under house arrest, Iltija Mufti, the daughter of the former chief minister Mehbooba Mufti, said as many as 25 armed security personnel had surrounded her house last week. All entrances to the house have been locked, she said, defying a communications ban by the Indian government.
Mufti said no legal basis had been provided for her detention but she had been told her previous comments to the media, criticising India’s actions in Kashmir, had angered officials. She said she had been denied a lawyer and prevented from seeing visitors.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...rnational-help
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Solidarity and unity in opposing global militarization: BNC statement on Kashmir
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on a helicopter tour of Israel in 2017
Taking inspiration from Israel’s settler-colonialism is only the latest in Modi-led India’s deepening relationship with and admiration for apartheid Israel. As we have observed over the years, India is borrowing Israel’s methodology and ideology and using Israeli weapons in its control over Kashmir. In 2014, the BJP government’s then home minister Rajnath Singh visited Israel and said he was “impressed” by the electronic fence that maintains the blockade on two million Palestinians in Gaza. A similar fence is already being deployed along the Line of Control between India and Pakistan. India is the world’s largest importer of Israeli weapons. The Tavor rifles, the very symbol of the military jackboot in the Kashmir valley, and the drones that India deploys to control the region are Israeli-made. Israeli military delegations have been visitingKashmir to train Indian troops.
Benjamin Netanyahu is set to visit India again in September, and major arms deals will be back on the table, as they were in the previous meeting. The Israeli weapons that India uses to oppress Kashmiris have been ‘field-tested’ on Palestinian bodies.
he Kashmir valley was already among the most militarized zones in the world, and now close to a million armed personnel are deployed there to impose the writ of the government. The curfew and communication blackout are still in place, over a week later. On Friday, the first reports of massive protests in Srinagar came in, with the use of teargas and live rounds of gunfire by Indian security personnel reported. Visiting journalists met victims with pellet gun injuries in hospitals, some of whom were going to study or were making bread in their shops when shot. The history of atrocities and human rights violations are not new to Kashmir. Human rights groups have recorded extrajudicial killings, arbitrary detentions, torture, rape, enforced disappearances, mass blindings and suppression of protest and democratic expression, along with legal immunity to armed forces for over 30 years.
https://mondoweiss.net/2019/08/solid...ion-statement/
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