Tragic Tales
Following the execution of 2001 Parliament Attack convict Afzal Guru, police and paramilitary forces have resorted to extreme use of pellet guns to deal...
Death of an Activist
A human rights activist by heart, a scholar by profession and a social worker by conscience, very few people must know that Tahir had...
Vanished In Darkness
Two residents of a Batamaloo neighborhood in Srinagar with similar names were picked up by forces of 22 RR and subjected to enforced disappearance...
Death Of A Carpenter
Taken as a human shield, Ali remained buried under the rubble of a house and burnt brutally in the fire caused by mortar shelling...
Gawkadal A Massacre, A Case
It took 22 years for the State Human Rights Commission to order a formal inquiry into Gawkadal massacre in which scores of harmless people...
Pulwama Firing: Suhail Is Losing His Memory
Saima Bhat
Srinagar
Suhail Ahmad Malik, 15, a class 9th student doesn’t remember what exactly happened with him on December 28, 2012 when forces opened fire...
Waiting For Justice
A brave widow from J&K’s summer capital, Srinagar, has been fighting against all odds for 19 years to get justice for her husband who...
Whose “Daminis” Are They?
While the civil society in India is mourning, and rightly so, the horrible rape and murder of a girl in Delhi, it has conveniently...
Grave Document
Being first of its kind, a report on the alleged human rights violations in J&K, since the onset of militancy here, has indicted personnel,...
The Daughter
Caught in the vortex of multi-polar violence, Razia Sultan’s fight to trace her disappeared father on both sides of LoC is of epic proportions....
Living a Tragedy
Twenty years ago, a painter disappeared mysteriously in Srinagar. His traumatized wife went from police to judiciary to jails to seek answers but no...
Lest We Forget
The J&K High Court ruling seeking reinvestigation of the 1998 Sailan Massacre in which 19 members of a family including 13 women were shot...
TRAVESTY OF JUSTICE
Incarcerated for nearly 17 years in Delhi’s Tihar jail, two youth from Kashmir, who were falsely implicated for their involvement in the 1996 Lajpat...
VALLEY OF TEARS
Ocean of Tears is the first government funded documentary on Kashmir's human rights crisis. In anticipation of its maiden screening,120000 people watched it. Shams...
Mistaken Identity
Last week, two soldiers were killed and three others injured at Chittergam on the outskirts of Srinagar when a fellow army unit fired on...