Indian officers named in report on Kashmir abuses

[calybe]

Hundreds of serving Indian soldiers, including senior officers, are accused of involvement in widespread human rights abuses in Kashmir in a new report to be published on Thursday.

Many have been decorated and promoted despite serious allegations against them, the authors say. In a move likely to provoke anger, the report, by a team of veteran legal

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[poetic_pixie_13]

"Cases … reveal that there is a policy not to genuinely investigate or prosecute the armed forces for human rights violations. On the contrary, alleged perpetrators of crimes are awarded, rewarded and promoted

This doesn't surprise me at all. Indian soldiers (and most soldiers in the region, lbr) are notoriously corrupt and gross. Their reputation around sexual assault and rape is just disgusting.

Up to 70,000 people died in violence in Kashmir over recent decades, it is widely estimated

Jesus fucking Christ, I always forget that the numbers are so high. This has been going on for so long, it's basically an extension of centuries of grudges and bullshit, I sometimes don't think it'll ever end.

[a_phoenixdragon]

Fuck. And holy shit. And FUCK.

[cellared]

this continues to be unbelievably awful.

props to the people who made such a huge effort to get the information out there and publish the report.

[jugglingeggs]

Seriously, the amount risk people go through in Kashmir/India to fight for this kind of information to get out there...they have my eternal respect (and as a Kashmiri, gratitude).

[the_physicist]

Cynical me thinks this will change nothing, but any coverage this gets will hopefully help put pressure on India to act on it.

[jugglingeggs]

No, nothing will change. No one ever pressures "the greatest democracy in the world"

[the_physicist]

Yeah, as I said, I don't really think this report will change much...

Kashmir has completely been out of the international news for a while now, so anything is good to get it back into people's minds so that politicians internationally are reminded to bring it up when India is talked about. But it's never enough that they do, but lately they seem to do less than nothing about the issue. -_- it's forgotten.