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| Jammu and Kashmir rights situation has improved since 2002: US watchdog | | |
Srinagar, Sep 12: US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) today came down heavily on security forces as well as militants for alleged human rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, but admitted the situation has improved since 2002.
The government's failure to human rights abuses allegedly committed by its security forces and such acts by militants is fuelling the cycle of violence in Jammu and Kashmir, HRW Executive Director for Asia Brad Adams told reporters here.
Adams released a 156-page report on human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir, listing abuses allegedly committed by security forces as well as the militants. This was the first time the US-based watchdog released its report here.
He said the human rights situation in the state has improved since the Congress-PDP coalition government came to power in 2002.
Things on the ground are getting better but that is not enough. It is good news that the Congress-PDP government has taken seriously the issue of disappearances of people but these disappearances have to be accounted for and the guilty punished, the HRW official maintained.
Adams also condemned militants, saying any attack on civilians, irrespective of the cause or intention, were not acceptable. "No cause can justify attacks on civilians. The attacks on civilians has alienated the people of Jammu and Kashmir and instilled a sense of fear among them." The government gives figures of prosecution (of security services personnel) for rights abuses but provides no documentation on what punishment they were given, he said. |
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