By Farzana Versey / Countercurrents.org Indeed, the community ought to be protected but this verbal heroism is senseless when the local population is being harmed everyday. Has there been such immediate sympathy expressed for the ongoing war and killings of civilians and security personnel? A shoe thrown at Omar Abdullah gets more mileage than the street protests.

Categories: Kashmir  Protests  Minorities  Sikhs  

Added: August 21, 2010

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By Jimmy Johnson /The Electronic Intifada Israel's pacification efforts against Palestinians have proven valuable for the Indian police, army and intelligence services in their campaigns to pacify Jammu and Kashmir with numerous Indian military and security imports from Israel leading the way.

Categories: Kashmir  India  Israel  Occupation  Protests  Brutality  

Added: August 20, 2010

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By Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai /Countercurrents.org Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Prime Minister of India's assertion that "Kashmir is an integral part of India" needs to be supplemented by some observations from the viewpoint of the people of Kashmir. This deserves to be borne in mind by all those who wish the conflict to be justly resolved once and for all.

Categories: Kashmir  Partition  India  Pakistan  Occupation  Self-determination  

Added: August 19, 2010

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By Naveed Qazi /Countercurrents.org The new generation of Kashmir is already showing signs of a distinct mindset and have the spirit to change the destiny of troubled Kashmir. They are better placed to resolve the dispute than previous generations.

Categories: Kashmir  India  Pakistan  History  Betrayal  

Added: August 16, 2010

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By LYDIA POLGREEN / N Y Times Violent protests have broken out in Kashmir for the past three summers but this year they have taken on a new intensity as the protesters have become less willing to obey the curfew and more willing to confront the security forces.

Categories: Kashmir  Killings  India  Occupation  Protests  

Added: August 14, 2010

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By Naveed Qazi / Countercurrents.org The prospect for peace in Kashmir lies, according to Naveed Qazi, is an adaptation of an arrangement similar to the one that brought peace to North Ireland

Categories: Kashmir  The British  Peace  Killings  Ireland  

Added: August 09, 2010

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By Avinash Pandey Samar /Countercurrents.org The human aspect which deals with those 26 people killed by the security forces since last Friday alone, or the total 43 who have perished since 11 June, when the current cycle of violence began. These are all real people like us, with jobs to do and families to return to. Some of them were too young, youngest being nine years and many of them under 15 years, too young to cause any serious threat to the security forces and their personnel.

Categories: Kashmir  Military Interventions  India  Killings  Human Rights  

Added: August 06, 2010

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By Murtaza Shibli / Guardian.co.uk By blaming Pakistan, Cameron not only fed India's national paranoia about Pakistan, but also shifted the focus away from Kashmir and the increasing death rate of its civilian population, which otherwise might have received some media attention.

Categories: Kashmir  Media Bias  Occupation  Protests  Killings  

Added: August 03, 2010

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By Zafarul-Islam Khan / The Milli Gazette The protests in the Valley are quickly taking the shape of an intifadah which no amount of army bullets will be able to control. Rather, these criminal bullets and their innocent victims will invite foreign intervention.

Categories: Kashmir  Military Interventions  Occupation  Protests  India  Intifadah  

Added: August 02, 2010

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By Naveed Qazi / Countercurrents.org About nineteen natives have been killed since the past month. It included young children and youth. It also included women and men, who were the lynchpins of their family. For us, life would move on, but for their sorrowing families, the struggle has just started. Kashmiri mornings are full of causerie, but think about their mornings, will they be peaceful? It would start with a suffocating silence which wouldn't end till the night.

Categories: Kashmir  Occupation  Military Force  India  Human Rights  Brutality  

Added: July 30, 2010

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