South Asia Human Rights Journalist Association

New York, October 20:  The Human Rights Watch has appealed to India to revoke the draconian law, Armed Forces Special Powers Act, as it violated India’s obligations under international human rights laws.

New Delhi, October 20 : The anti-Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) caravan was attacked by Hindu extremists as it arrived in New Delhi.

The spokesman for the caravan, Afzal Khan, told media that as they reached New Delhi, a band of Hindu extremists assaulted them, hurling abuses and thrashing the participants. “They also snatched our mike and threw tomatoes and black colour on us,” he added

Srinagar, September  28 :  Indian troops beat up and injured  eight political prisoners in District Jail Baramulla. Personnel of Indian Central Reserve Police Force and Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) men ruthlessly beat up and injured the detainees when the prisoners peacefully took demonstrations against the miseries and injustice perpetrated by the jail authority.

Srinagar, September 27, 2011: In the Anchidora cold blooded murder case, the Court has granted bail to the police constable earlier this year who was reported one involved in the killing of three boys in Islamabad town.

Court of the Principal District and Sessions Judge, Muhammad Nazir Fida, while pronouncing the judgment, held that no material evidence had come against the constable, Nissar Ahmad which would suggest his involvement in the killing of three teenagers.

Surankote (Poonch), September 27, 2011: Even the dead would turn in their graves at such a startling revelation. Mail Today has found mass graves in Poonch district where 2,500 unidentified bodies were buried by a lone gravedigger.

It is pertinent to note here that the human rights commission of Kashmir had found in an inquiry over 2,100 unidentified bodies at 38 sites in the Kashmir Valley. The commission's report had come out last month.

But this is for the first time that graves unknown men have been identified in the Jammu region.

Srinagar, September 09, 2011:   An administrative member which is called a village head or Sarpanch sponsored by the authority in Kashmir and a police man who are also enjoying black laws and a policeman disgraced, molested and attempted to rape a teenage girl in Uri town of Baramulla district.

The shocking incident surfaced on September 9, 2011 when the Sarpanch (village head), Raja Ghulam Mohammad Khan, along with a policeman, and some goons intercepted the girl, a class 11 student, when she was heading for school, eyewitnesses said.

Srinagar, September 09, 2011:  A woman was seriously injured in the eye when paramilitary CRPF trooper shot a marble from a slingshot at Saraf Kadal in  Srinagar City on Friday September 9.
Reports quoting eyewitnesses said that clashes erupted between protestors and contingent of Police and paramilitary CRPF at Saraf Kadal area.
The police and CRPF resorted to baton charge to disperse the youth. The CRPF also fired marble from slingshot at the youths.

Srinagar, September 6, 2011- Last year, 2010 September 06, in Palhalan, in Baramulla district, four people lost their lives and one among the injured passed away a week later. A year later, Uzma Falak traces their stories in the labyrinths of a village, where 41-days of unrelenting curfew gave it name- ‘The Gaza of Kashmir’. The stories of the dead bring to fore the irony of fate, how destinies crossed path and their kin harbour tragedies in silence.

Double Standards As World Ignores Kashmir Massacres
Submitted by Faddy Qazi on September 5, 2011
by Eric Margolis
www.pakistankakhudahafiz.com/about
The state human rights commission of the Indian-ruled portion of Kashmir reported its investigators had found 2,156 bodies buried in unmarked graves in 38 locations. Most were young men. Many bore bullets wounds.

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL  PUBLIC STATEMENT:  22 August 2011:  Index: ASA 20/043/2011: India: Need for urgent action as p olice report confirms existence of unmarked graves of disappeared persons in Jammu and Kashmir. Following a report by a police investigation team, confirming the existence of unmarked graves containing bodies of persons subject to enforced disappearances, urgent action needs to be taken including preserving the evidence and widening the investigation across Jammu and Kashmir said Amnesty International today.