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...
A Lawless State
Chief minister, Omar Abdullah, denied meeting a team of international human rights watchdog, Amnesty International, who are campaigning against the use of the draconian...
Documenting Tragedies
Trapped in a vicious circle of violence, a community-based organisation has documented the atrocities committed by the state and non-state actors on the people...
Lost Faith
Ever since the conflict broke out in Kashmir valley, north Kashmir’s Palhalan village has been at the forefront of violence. Beneath a deceptive calm,...
The SOP of Killings
Amid an unchanging legal atmosphere of impunity, civilian killings keep happening in a familiar manner amid claims of change. Two more recent civilian killings...
Under the shadow of AFSPA
All evidence so far in the killing of a young man in Bandipore points to his innocence. Even if it is established as a...
Moments of union
Undertrials are bussed to the courts daily for hearings where they often encounter their family members. SYED ASMA spent time in Srinagar lower court witnessing...
The Chargesheet
The Pathribal faked encounter is a case of conspiracies and lose ends revealed by the investigators in the army’s and initial police narratives. It...
PARTISAN JUSTICE
The recent Supreme Court judgment on the Pathribal faked encounter case may take all such cases, involving armed forces personnel in crimes against civilians,...
Injustice and desperation
It has been more than 12 years since the victims of Pathribal faked encounter were laid to rest. But their charred bodies, identified after...
Killer’s last decade
Serial killer, Major Avtar Singh could have neither fled India without government help nor lived in the US without the local sleuths looking the...
A Chilling ‘Voice’
The kidnapping and murder of Jaleel Andrabi in 1996 pushed the High Court to set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) for finding answers...
