The Kashmir conflict and human rights

Abstract

The Kashmir conflict is one of the most longstanding and intractable − between India and Pakistan ( over Kashmir) and between India and the people of Jammu and Kashmir ( in Kashmir). The dynamic nature of the conflict affects the lives of millions of people, across political, social, economic and cultural spheres. Taking off from the analyses provided in ‘Memory and hope: new perspectives on the Kashmir conflict’ Race & Class 56, no. 2 (2014), the author looks at the massive scale of human rights violations. As he details the toll for 2018, he argues how one should not view the conflict as simply that between India and Pakistan over territory, but as continued and continual violations of the people of Kashmir.