Families of two persons killed in custody yet to get justice

Srinagar, Sept 04: The families of two victims of Indain state terrorism, who were killed in custody by Indian troops, are yet to get justice even after the passage of 13 years and despite the fact that police and the authority sponsored Human Rights Commission had also clearly held Indian troops responsible for the custodial killings of the two persons of Poonch.

His prediction proved right, says a distraught father

Srinagar, Aug 17: “His prediction that he will be martyred proved right,” said Abdul Ahad, father of Umar Ahad Dar a 10th class student, who was killed in police and CRPF firing on a pro freedom protest demonstration at Narbal Chowk on August 14.

A 7th class Faizan’s mother speaks

Baramulla, July 29: “When I heard that someone has drowned in Jhelum, I went rushing to the spot because I knew my son had gone out. There I saw policemen and Special Operation Group (SOG) men firing teargas shells on someone drowning in Jhelum. But that moment I did not know it was my son, Faizan,” reveals wailing Fareeda, mother of Faizan a student of seventh class who was chased to death by SOG forces in Baramulla town.

'End detention of Jammu and Kashmir lawyers' Amnesty

London, July 22: The Jammu and Kashmir state government must immediately end the preventive detention of the leaders of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association, Amnesty International said Wednesday.

India: Avoid excessive use of force, investigate killings in Kashmir valley

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC STATEMENT-2 July 2010AI Index: ASA 20/017/2010Authorities in India should avoid excessive use of force while dealing with demonstrators in the Kashmir valley, Amnesty International said today.

Flashback: 11 June 1991

When CRPF killed 28 civilians at Chotta Bazaar On 11 June 1991, nearly a dozen CRPF men came out charging from their camp situated near the Government Medical College Karan Nagar here. Blood in their eyes, they began firing indiscriminately at shopkeepers, passersby not even sparing women and children. By the time their guns ceased to boom in the adjacent Chota Bazar locality, dozens of innocent civilians had been killed in what remains one of the bloodiest massacres in Kashmir’s 20-year-old turmoil — the Chotta Bazar massacre.

Year after, mother of victim still craves for justice

Srinagar, June 04: The family of a deceased, Nissar Ahmad Mir of Barzalls Srinagar, who was killed in a teargas shell fired by Indian policemen in a same day last year a year ago, yet to get justice.

3 missing youth killed in Kupwara fake encounter

Srinagar, May 28: In Nadihal Rafiabad thousands of people took to the streets to protest against the killing of three missing youth by troops in a fake encounter last month April 30 in Machil area of Kupwara.

Handwara protests girl’s molestation

Srinagar, May 6: The molestation of an eight-year-old girl by Special Police Officer of triggered massive protests at Kralgund area of Langate in Handwara on Wednesday.

’99 custodial death, finish probe in 3 weeks’

Srinagar, April 21: The High Court has directed the authorities to complete within three weeks its investigation into a case involving the custodial killing of a civilian, Muhammad Sultan Bhat of Ganderbal by the Rashtriya Rifles in 1999.