No let up in Kashmir rights abuse: HRW
Reuters, Srinagar
Human rights abuses by security forces and Muslim militants continue unchecked in Indian Kashmir despite a three-year-old peace process between India and Pakistan, a global human rights group said yesterday. "Those abuses continue despite a tentative peace process ... modest confidence-building measures between India and Pakistan, and a 2002 election of a state government with an avowed agenda to improve the human rights situation," Human Rights Watch said in a report released in Srinagar. There was no immediate reaction to the report from government officials. The 156-page report titled "Everyone Lives In Fear: Patterns of Impunity in Jammu and Kashmir" did not say whether abuses in the Himalayan region had increased or decreased since the India-Pakistan peace process started in January 2004.
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