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Violations, Violence and Repression Remain Rampant in Indian-Administered
Kashmir: UN

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - The U.N. human rights office has denounced what it calls the
   ongoing repression in Indian-administered Kashmir and is urging the
   government to restore the rights stripped from the region's millions of
   Muslim inhabitants in August.

   India's only Muslim-majority state of Jammu and Kashmir has officially
   ceased to exist. On August 5, the Indian government revoked
   constitutional provisions that granted partial autonomy to the area. As
   a result, the region was divided into two federally administered states
   - one being Jammu and Kashmir, which will include the restive
   Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley and the Hindu-majority Jammu. The second
   territory will include the high-altitude Buddhist enclave of Ladakh.

   This move, which came into effect on Thursday, ends seven decades of
   self-rule for the region.

   The office of the U.N. high commissioner for human rights says it
   deplores the restrictive measures and what it calls the wide range of
   rights abuses that have continued unabated since August. In large parts
   of the Kashmir Valley, it reports an undeclared curfew is preventing
   the free movement of people and restricting their rights to health,
   education and freedom of religion and belief.
   

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