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- Subject: Report from Occupied Kashmir
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- Date: 21 Nov 92 18:28:37 GMT
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- 2 REPORTS FIND WIDE ABUSES BY INDIA IN KASHMIR
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- WASHINGTON,Nov.7- A new Indian Government drive on seperatists
- in the Kashmir valley has resulted in dozens of killings of
- suspected militants by military forces and the wide spread
- terrorizing of civilians, according to two American human-rights
- organizations that sent representatives to the area in october.
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- A military campaign called operation Tiger, which began in August, has also resulted in the sexual abuse and murder of noncombat-
- ants a preliminary report from Asia Watch and Physicians for
- Human rights concludes. It says that patients are dragged from ho-spital beds and medical staff detained and assaulted in raids.
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- "Detainees are routinely subjected to severe and prolonged
- beating, electric shock and other forms of torture" the report
- says. "The Asia watch P.H.R. team documented a number of cases
- of renal failure caused by the extensive use of the roller torture
- treatment which crushes the muscle tissue and releases toxins,
- which cause serious and sometimes fatal, damage to the kidneys."
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- A final version of the report will be published before the end of the year, according to Asia Watch.
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- An armed rebellion has been growing in the Kashmir Valley since
- 1989,prompting harsh retaliatory measures from New Delhi,which
- accuses Pakistan of fomenting terrorism in the disputed territory.Kashmir has been under martial law since 1990,with all civil
- rights suspended and troops empowered to shoot on sight during
- curfews.
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- Indian officials argue that much of the violence in the region is caused by the militants and that all allegations of military
- abuses are investigated. They say that human rights groups do not
- dequatelely condemn violence by militants.
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- Kashmiris are predominantly Muslims, and most Indians are Hindu
- but the dispute is not a religious one. It has its roots in poli-
- tical and economic alienation, residents of the valley say.
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- The separatists have wide middle class support as well as the ba-
- cking of virtually all political factions in neighboring Pakistan
- Which has controlled another part of the former princely state
- of Kashmir.
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- The State department's 1991 human rights reports said that while militants also were responsible for abuses there was evidence that
- troops were killing suspects and detainees.
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- "Little is done to punish those responsible for extrajudicial
- killings," the State Department said.
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- It also found official abuses in Punjab State, where Sikhs are
- fighting New Dehli.
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- Although the Indian Government bars official visits to Kashmir by
- international rights organizations, representatives from Asia
- Watch and physicians for Human rights were able to travel in the
- valley as tourists for a week, interviewing victims or relatives
- of security operations in Srinagar the Kashmiri summer capital,
- and other towns.
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- "In one case four students who were arrested during a search op-
- eration on Oct. 14 in the Dal gate area of Srinagar were shot
- dead that night and their bodies handed over to the families
- the next day." according to the preliminary report made available
- to the New York Times."The security forces also broke up peaceful
- protests against these killings by beating, tear-gassing and sho-
- oting demonstrators."
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- Among other incidents investigated by the two organization's re-
- presentatives were these:
- On Oct. 1, after an attack by militants on a patrol near the
- village of Bathekut, in which one soldier died, troops"rampaged
- through the village, killing 10 villagers, raping 4 women and
- burning houses and grain stores."
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- On Oct. 15, a man and women were burned alive in the town of
- Badsagam after Border Security Forces troops locked them in their shop and set fire to it.
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- In a search operation by an army unit near Shopian, also on Oct
- 15, eight women and 11 year old girl were raped the human right
- groups were told.
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- "Throughout the conflict, the Indian Army and other Security
- forces in Kashmir continued to exhibit blatant disregard for
- international norms of medical neutrality," the report says.
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- NY Times Nov 8, 1992
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