South Asia Citizens Web

The real challenge is not external. The Indian state and the J&K government would do well to first acknowledge the mistakes committed in the past and engaging with the people of Kashmir to find a way forward.

book review by William Dalrymple in The New Statesman

The sequence of events relating to this “forced relocation” demonstrates a very high degree of extreme intolerance and hatred by the Ravana Balaya and the perceived collaboration of the Buddha Sasana ministry in the sordid exercise. Although the beleaguered Muslim community had tried very hard to be flexible and accommodating on this issue by suggesting reasonable alternatives the ethno religious fascists had demanded nothing less than a total relocation.

This is a documentary film chronicling an act of overwhelming horror — the honour killing of Banaz Mahmod, a young British woman in suburban London in 2006, killed and "disappeared" by her own family, with the agreement and help of a large section of the Kurdish community, because she tried to choose a life for herself.

CPA-led Civil Society teams have also had a closer look at some of the events and incidents which continue to agitate the valley. One such incident is the alleged gang rape of women in the twin villages of Kunan-Poshpura in Kupwara district about 120 km outside Srinagar. CPA facilitated a team of senior civil society activists to visit Kunan-Poshpura between June 14-16, 2013 to assess the progress of the justice process and the grievances of the village more than 22 years after the incident.