Kashmir report alleges 33 extrajudicial killings, 4,764 arrests
Statements carried by the state news agency and Pakistan Today, both citing the Kashmir Media Service, say force will not end Kashmiris' demand for freedom.
Civil society activists in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir have said that Narendra Modi's government cannot break the region's demand for freedom by force or by silencing dissent, in a statement the Associated Press of Pakistan attributed to the Kashmir Media Service. APP filed the report from Islamabad on 4 November.
Pakistan Today, citing the same service, reported that 33 Kashmiris were killed extrajudicially in the territory in ten months and that 4,764 people were arrested. The report gave no breakdown of either figure.
The activists quoted by APP included lawyers, academics and human rights defenders who asked not to be named because they feared reprisal, according to the report. They said Kashmiris could be killed but their dreams could not be. They said the use of 'brutal force' and the muzzling of voices of dissent would not crush the spirit for freedom they described as a struggle. The reports named no organisation the activists belonged to.
Neither report named anyone killed or arrested, gave the districts where the deaths or detentions took place, or identified the Indian forces involved. Both traced their accounts to the Kashmir Media Service, and neither said it had independently verified the figures or the statement.
APP, the state news agency, used the term Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir for the territory, and Pakistan Today used the same term in its headline. APP's headline attributed the statement to what it called IIOJK civil society.
The ten-month period covered by Pakistan Today's figures was not specified, and the report did not say whether the 4,764 arrests included people later released or charged.
Neither report carried comment from Indian authorities.
India and Pakistan both claim Jammu and Kashmir in full and have fought wars over the territory, which the Line of Control divides.
How the reports differ
APP led on the civil society statement, saying lawyers, academics and human rights defenders who would not be named had spoken of 'brutal force' and of muzzled dissent. Pakistan Today led on numbers it attributed to the Kashmir Media Service, 33 extrajudicial killings in ten months and 4,764 arrests. Neither report named a source on the record beyond the service.
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