(AKI) - The United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has voiced its concern over the violent protests seen recently in Indian-administered Kashmir. | "OHCHR calls on the Indian authorities and in particular security forces to respect the right to freedom of assembly and expression, and comply with international human rights principles in controlling the demonstrators." |
Not a word about Gilani's statements about being part of Pakistain.
| The UNHCR didn't say a word either when the Islamists were ethnically cleansing the Kashmir valley of Hindus and made 300,000 of them refugees in their own country |
I think I've finally found the secret (that comes naturally to a certain mindset): If you fulminate, habitually utter blood-curdling threats, and refuse to be bound by the chains of logic or reason, the human rights poltroons will always criticize the other guy. Try to behave in a moderate, civilized manner and it'll never be good enough.
Since June, at least 37 Muslims and three Hindus have died in police shootings on protesters in the Musim-majority Kashmir valley and the mainly Hindu area of Jammu. The latest clashes were triggered by a state government plan made public in June to donate land to a Hindu shrine trust in the Kashmir valley. The decision was later reversed after massive Muslim
Army officials said suspected Muslim militants on Wednesday took seven people hostage after reportedly killed one soldier and three civilians and injured two other soldiers in Indian Kashmir's second city, Srinagar.
The UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) has been deployed to observe a ceasefire in disputed Jammu and Kashmir since 1949. Kashmir was split between India and Pakistan after they won independence from the United Kingdom in 1947.
They've been there since 1949, which is 59 years by my perhaps inaccurate count. I'm wondering if anybody's gotten their money's worth out of that.
| India doesn't allow UNMOGIP anywhere near the LOC on their side. In the 1950s, they caught UN peacekeepers moving boundary markers to favor Pakistan. One former UNMOGIP commander has questioned whether the accession of J+K to India by Maharajah Hari Singh actually occurred, a quite bizarre claim since Lord Mountbatten was present and signed it |