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International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir

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489:. The Tribunal alleges that the insurgency from 1989–2009 has caused more than 70,000 deaths. According to Angana P. Chatterji, the convener of the Tribunal, they investigated fifty killings by the Indian Security Forces; except one all were declared militant. Of those who were killed in these incidents 39 were Muslims, four were Hindus and rest were of undetermined religious background. The Tribunal found that only one of those killed was a militant and the rest were killed in staged encounters. She further stresses the need of an independent inquiry into 525:. The access to the official record available with the police along with interviewing the affected families helped in preparing the report, which took over two years to get completed. The report that alleges that the perpetrators of crimes in Kashmir are decorated instead of prosecuted, analysed 214 cases of abuse and further mentions 8,000 forced disappearances and 70 killings. 533:
In 2008 the Tribunal officials came under attack in the valley allegedly from Indian security forces. Besides spying and harassment of the tribunal, grenades were hurled at Parvez Imroz's residence in Kashmir on 30 June. The tribunal in a memorandum submitted to the government said that the use of
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and fake encounters, which according to her may result in some correlation of 8000 disappearances with the bodies in unmarked graves. The Tribunal found 2700 (about 3000) unknown and unmarked graves having 2900 bodies in three districts of Jammu and Kashmir. A gravedigger in a statement to the
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The Tribunal's mandate does not include finding political solutions to resolve the Kashmir issue. Instead it includes recording and investigating crimes committed only in the part of Kashmir administered by India. According to Mallika Kaur the Tribunal did not include the
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because it was set up by Indian citizens and access across the heavily guarded border is not possible. The Tribunal was also mandated to investigate how the violations of human rights by the militants intersect with those security forces.
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The Tribunal was first envisioned in 2006 when Parvez Imroz, a human rights activist, invited Angana Chatterji to Kashmir. From 2006–2008, Chatterji studied the Kashmir issue and interviewed the locals. Mallika Kaur, a scholar of
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The local people of the Kashmir valley welcomed the Tribunal and offered their help even when they were threatened. The people according to Imroz were content that this issue is being taken up internationally. The
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as well as the international community to play their part in settling the Kashmir dispute that has been lingering on for six decades. Moreover, it asked Obama to raise the issue of Kashmir with
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landmines by the Indian Security Forces in the valley imperils the lives of civilian population. In June 2010 the tribunal presented its finding to the
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Angana P. Chatterji (5 March 2012). "Witnessing as Feminist Intervention in India-Administered Kashmir". In Ania Loomba, Ritty A. Lukose (ed.).
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Tribunal said that he witnessed the burials of 203 people killed extrajudicially between 2002–2006. The Tribunal has criticized the
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and its members for failing to stop the fallout of the India's militarization in the valley.
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and to not jeopardize this issue on the cost of improving relations with India.
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In December 2009 the International People's Tribunal released a report titled
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and Zaheer-Ud-Din. Chatterji served as convener until December 2012.
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Sanjay Kak (2011). "The Fire is at my heart". In Sanjay Kak (ed.).
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and adopting a resolution on allegations of mass graves. in 2008.
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Alleged Perpetrators – Stories of Impunity in Jammu and Kashmir
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supported the Tribunal by inviting them to testify before
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Until My Freedom Has Come: The New Intifada in Kashmir
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and rest of India. It was first convened in 2008 by
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California Institute of Integral Studies Newsletter
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Index

Human right abuses in Jammu and Kashmir
Jammu and Kashmir
Angana P. Chatterji
www.kashmirprocess.org
human right violations
Jammu and Kashmir
Kashmir
Parvez Imroz
Angana P. Chatterji
Gautam Navlakha
Human rights abuses
in Jammu and Kashmir

International People's Tribunal
on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir

Jammu & Kashmir Human Rights Commission
Papa II
Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus
1990 Gawkadal massacre
1990 Zakoora and Tengpora massacre
1991 Kunan Poshpora incident
1993 Lal Chowk fire
1993 Bijbehara massacre
1993 Kishtwar massacre
1993 Sopore massacre
1995 kidnapping of Western tourists in Kashmir
Murder of Jalil Andrabi
1997 Sangrampora massacre
1998 Wandhama massacre
1998 Chapnari massacre
1998 Prankote massacre
2000 Chittisinghpura massacre
2001 Kishtwar massacre

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