While “uncomfortable for many, the reality that [Kashmir and Jammu] is occupied is (or was) widely recognized, including by the United Nations (the UN Security Council’s resolutions regarding Jammu and Kashmir presuppose that neither India nor Pakistan has sovereign title over the territory).”
Kashmir law & justice project
India not only illegally occupies Kashmir but also has annexed and colonized the territory. The processes of occupation, annexation, and colonization are ongoing. India subjects Kashmiri people to land grabs, evictions, incarceration, harassment, criminal intimidation, crackdowns on religious freedom, and physical violence by the Indian-occupation.
Like the Zionist framing of an “Israel-Palestinian conflict” which obscures the 77-year Nakba and settler colonial erasure of the Palestinian people by falsely suggesting this is a symmetrical armed conflict between two parties, the Hindutva project “labels Kashmir as an “internal bilateral issue”, concealing the reality of decades long occupation and colonization. All of this rhetoric rejects the reality that Kashmir and Palestine are under military occupation by settler-colonial projects.
Resources
Academic articles + reports
Additional reports + academic articles
- YOUR LAND IS OUR LAND India’s land rights violations in Kashmir (FIDH)
- Complete Injustice: The Indian Supreme Court and the misrule of law in Kashmir (Kashmir Law & Justice Project)
News articles + op-eds
Additional news articles
- Banning Books: A Part of the Pattern of Erasing Kashmir, say experts (KT News Service, shared by Kashmir Times)
- India is using the G20 summit to further its settler-colonial ambitions in Kashmir (Omer Aijazi, The Conversation)
- Is India projecting ‘normalcy’ in Kashmir by holding G20 meeting? (Al Jazeera)
Op-eds from Just Peace Advocates
- A year of military lock down and Israeli style colonization in Kashmir (Karen Rodman + Michaela Lavis, Mondoweiss)
- Canada has a duty to respond to human rights situation in Kashmir (Anam Zakaria + Michaela Lavis, Hill Times)
- Canada stands idly by, as Kashmir passes a year of military occupation by India (Karen Rodman, The Canada Files)
- Kashmir’s grim one-year lockdown anniversary (Michaela Lavis, Spring Magazine)
- A year later, Canada’s silence on Kashmir is even more deafening (Karen Rodman, Richocet)
- India-administered Kashmir, four years later (Karen Rodman, rabble.ca)
- Canada remains silent on Indian colonization of Kashmir (Karen Rodman, rabble.ca)
- During my Christmas in Kashmir, stories of survival, resistance, and pain (Michaela Lavis, Toronto Star)
If you are unable to access the banned books discussed above, you can find copies of the books here.
Webinars + podcasts
Organizations + websites
