Human rights in India
Subtitle: Kashmir under siege.
Contributors: Gossman, Patricia.; Asia Watch Committee (U.S.); Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Series: An Asia watch report
Publisher: Human Rights Watch
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
Subjects: Human rights -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir.; Atrocities -- India -- Jammu and Kashmir.
Other titles: Kashmir under siege.
Description: Both sides in the bloody Kashmir separatist conflict have been responsible for human rights abuses, but attacks on civilians by Indian government security forces have been marked by particularly wanton cruelty. Authorized to shoot to kill in their efforts to crush the militant separatist movement. Indian army soldiers and federal paramilitary troops of the Central Reserve Police Force and the Border Security Force have used lethal weapons against peaceful demonstrators, shooting scores of unarmed civilians. Government forces have also engaged in the summary execution of captured militants, warrantless house-to-house searches during which entire families are seized and beaten, and the wholesale destruction of civilian propert. Militant organizations are also guilty of crimes against civilians, engaging in summary executions, targeted assassinations and the indiscriminate use of bombs and grenades in public places.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Written by James A. Goldston and Patricia Gossman"--Ack.
"May 1991."
Cover title: Kashmir under siege.