UN General Assembly
1992

The process of self-determination remains incomplete. In its resolutions of 1948 and 1949 the Security Council decided that the future of Jammu and Kashmir should be determined in accordance with the wishes of its people, to be expressed in a free and fair plebiscite under United Nations auspices. Pakistan and India both undertook to implement those resolutions. That was the first time that the Council set out the actual process by which the right of self-determination was to be exercised. It is ironic and sad that the first resolutions of the Security Council providing for the exercise of the right of self-determination remain unimplemented. The passage of a generation has not extinguished the desire for self-determination in Kashmir. It is the children of 1947 who are now sacrificing their lives in the struggle for Kashmir's freedom from Indian rule. Since 1990 more than 10,000 Kashmiri men, women and children have been killed. According to Amnesty International, an estimated 15,000 citizens are in prisons and torture cells in Kashmir. The brutal repression unleashed by a