150,000+
Tortured

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70,000+
Killed

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8,000+
Forced Disappearances

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10,000+
Raped/Molested

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150,000+
Tortured

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70,000+
Killed

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The Kashmir Crisis

A house of absolute tragedy

When Kashmir appears as an international issue, it does so as a “problem” – a “bilateral” and “territorial” dispute between India, Pakistan and China, three nuclear-armed powers. Such a perspective reduces Kashmir to a piece of land which can be bought or fought over, without considering the perspective and aspirations of millions of the region’s inhabitants. The Indian state has argued that Kashmir is a “bilateral” dispute to be solved through dialogue with Pakistan – a position that both excludes international mediation and the perspectives of Kashmiris themselves. Meanwhile, the Indian government uses the singular lens of terrorism--expansively defined as everything from armed conflict to stone pelting to civil disobedience--to conceal the reality of Indian occupation, erase more than 100 years of struggle for sovereignty led by the people of Kashmir, and delegitimize...

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