It found that allegations of #HumanRights violations during this period were widespread & serious, particularly the excessive use of force by Indian security forces that led to numerous human casualties. It also documents these allegations & witnesses’ accounts of #violence.
Drawn largely from information already in the public domain,the report reflects the research of human rights defenders & local,national & international #NGOs. It also draws from official documents, such as questions in Parliament,court orders & police reports, & PTI news reports.
According to the #Jammu and #Kashmir government, 51 people were killed during the unrest between July 8, 2016, and February 27, 2017, and 9,042 civilians were injured during the protests due to the use of bullets, metal pellets and chemical shells by the security forces.
People’s organisations have estimated that from mid-July 2016 to end-March 2018, 130 to 145 civilians were killed by Indian security forces, while 16 to 20 civilians were killed by armed groups.
Official figures presented in the Parliament stated that 17 people were killed by #pellet injuries between July 2016 and August 2017. According to the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission, 1,726 people were injured by metal pellets in 2016.
In January 2018, then J&K CM @MehboobaMufti
said before the state assembly that 6,221 people had been injured by pellet guns in #Kashmir btw July 8, 2016 & Feb 27, 2017. Of these,728 had eye injuries and 54 people suffered some form of visual impairment due to pellet injuries.
On January 27, 2018 the J&K govt also told the state assembly that 5 inquiries had been initiated into civilians killings in 2016,but it didn't specify whether the investigations had been completed. It was added that no inquiries were initiated for civilian killings in 2017.
According to @jkccs_ none of these inquiries had been completed till the end of 2017, and not a single case of the excessive use of force in the state had led to prosecution in the civilian courts.
On January 27, 2018, 3 civilians were reportedly killed and several injured in Shopian district when the Indian #Army fired at protesters. More protests followed, Mufti ordered a magistrate-level inquiry into the killings, and the state police filed an FIR against army personnel.
However, one of the accused filed a petition before the Supreme Court to the cancel the FIR, and in March 2018, the court halted all investigations till its final verdict.
A right to information (#RTI) application filed by #JammuAndKashmir RTI activists found that over 1,000 people were detained under the Jammu and Kashmir #PublicSafetyAct between March 2016 and August 2017.
The Software Freedom Law Center reported that #internet services in #JammuAndKashmir were suspended 10 times in 2016 & 32 times in 2017. On April 17,2017, the state govet imposed a ban on #SocialMedia networks & #mobile services following widespread #protests. #KashmirGagged
Confidential information received by the OHCHR indicates that approximately 1.4 million #children lost an estimated 130 #school days in 2016. Local #media reported that schools were closed for over four months after the protests started in 2016.
In Dec 2016, the central govt claimed that all #schools in the state remained open during the 2016 unrest & around 95% of students appeared for the board examination.
However, in Nov 2016,the state govt announced mass promotion for students in Classes 8,9 &11 due to the inability of #schools to complete the curriculum.The 2017 report of the UN Sec.General on Children & Armed Conflict said that there were no cases of attacks on schools in 2017.
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Bhagat Singh’s ideology is not meant to be hijacked. He has written with remarkable intellectual clarity. Read what he stood for in his essay — Why I Am an Atheist.
Do not let anyone cloud your mind and reasoning. Snippets in the 🧶 below, link at the very end
This 5,790-word essay was first published in People, a periodical brought out from Lahore, in September 1931.
In it, Bhagat Singh, a revolutionary freedom fighter, a socialist in his beliefs, a powerful writer, and a prolific journalist, begins by asserting that his atheism is the result of rational inquiry as opposed to vanity or pride.
It takes months of hard work to find water in Sivagangai, Tamil Nadu. It is an assault on the senses — the heat, the smoke, the juddering engine. The well-diggers – 5 men and 3 women – hew mud and rock, and heave it up in 40°C #WorldWaterDay2022 🧶
Sivagangai is a part of Chettinad, famous for its cuisine and architecture. Here, water has always been a problem. Given its location in Tamil Nadu’s ‘rain shadow’ region, rainfall is often patchy and has been distressingly meagre in the last couple of years
A city cab driver, who operated taxis in Mumbai and bulldozers abroad for decades, is now devastated by illness. He and his family are struggling with hospital visits and expenses, moving between fear and hope
Abdul Rahman’s world has shrunk – professionally, personally, physically. And quite literally. A migrant worker who once travelled across 4 continents, he is now confined to the 150 sq.feet room he lives in with five family members.
He's driven bulldozers and cars in Saudi Arabia, worked in Dubai, Britain, Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, parts of Africa. Today he's to be physically carried in a chair, down a narrow lane in a Mahim slum colony, to a taxi that can take him to Sion hospital – over and over again
The stories by @AparnaKarthi have warmth and empathy. It is why they are so humane, surprising, and affecting. It is also why one can dive into them blindly and be glad that one did.
Here's a short list of some fantastic rural reporting from her 🧵
The repeal of the farm laws is a fantastic victory for one of the greatest protests in decades. We are unsure of what lies ahead, but today we must celebrate the resilience of the many farmers who showed us what standing up for your rights can do.
[thread] #farmlawswithdrawn
First off: What were they protesting?
The farmers were fighting for a cause much larger than the repeal of three unjust laws. They were fighting for the rights of us all. ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/an…
The farmers didn't fight to maintain status quo. After all, they are the first victims of a broken system. “We never said it was perfect. We need reforms.” But the question is, reforms for whom – farmers or the corporate world? ruralindiaonline.org/en/articles/we…