To Tell A Numbing Story
Mohammed Maqbool has handled nearly 12,000 mainly mutilated bodies during the 14 years of violence in Kashmir — and now he has had enough.
INNOCENT BUT PUNISHED
It is not unique in the slow Indian justice delivery system, but its magnitude for some Kashmiris is. Before courts acquitted them many have...
Life of A Massacre
A massacre can perpetuate trauma in memory. The scars of Chittisinghpora will never vanish, but 12 years after 35 Sikhs were brutally gunned down...
The lone survivor: Nanak Singh
Bodies of victims killed in Chattisighpora massacre - Image courtesy: Sikh Siyasat
I was 46 years old in 2000. I was a government employee in...
The Pathribal Aftermath
Pathribal was a part of three successive and related killings which claimed 50 lives between March 20 and April 3, 2000. On March 20,...
Trapped in the cycle
The chief minister’s amnesty to hundreds of arrested stone throwing protesters of 2010, ‘Eidi from elders to youngsters’ turned out to be a mirage....
Gone without a trace
Many youth have gone missing during the last 22 years of strife in Kashmir and for many of them there is no record or...
‘Killing Army’s Mistake’
Last week an army patrol stepped inside AshiqHussain’s compound and shot him dead. The army officials have accepted that it was a mistake. Mudasir...
RTI & Human Rights
Dr Raja Muzaffar BhatThe violation of Human Rights has been a matter of great concern in Jammu & Kashmir for nearly two decades now....
A Widow’s Life
An overwhelming 91 per cent of widows choose not to remarry in Muslim majority Kashmir as they are stigmatized and their children are not...
Sopore Massacre
An eyewitness of the infamous “Jan 6 Sopore massacre”, Abdul Hamid Bhat, narrates the horrid tale of the slaughter and arson by men in...
She Died Looking For Her Son
She had become a widow nine months after her son was disappeared and died lonely in her one small house waiting for him. Sameer...
Struggling In Darkness
Many young protesters involved in last year’s unrest were killed or left injured. Sameer Yasir talks to one protester who lost his eyesight in...
SPECTRE AND IMPUNITY
Every time a fresh debate surrounding removal of AFSPA is energised, the army raises a spectre to oppose it. Past all other arguments, the...
Twenty Years After
Last week, the SHRC recommended a fresh investigation into Kunan mass rapes and compensation for the victims passing serious strictures against the investigators. Mudasir...
