Thanks to the wikileaks releases see here we're getting to confirm what we've always suspected about the Indian authorities in Kashmir - there's systematic abuse and persecution of the Muslim majority.
While I won't get into the politics of who should control the region, the current overseers India are behaving the way (unfortunately) most states do when administering a hated minority within their boundary.
While India is a nation of about a billion people and its easy to find negative examples to make a point about their government, it would appear to clearly show now that India is a systematic abuser of the human rights of its Muslim occupants in Kashmir (at least).
But India is not a country we hear much about in relation to extremists and terrorists in the western media. They're too strategically important a country to get off side, and we're (the west) even willing to throw nuclear export technology their way to keep them happy....even though they refuse to sign the nuclear non Proliferation Pact.....which I consider scandalous, and not to mention incredibly irresponsible.
So instead we continue to paint this rosy picture of India as the world's biggest democracy with harmonious ethnic minorities. Yet the state continues to brutalise the Kashmiries, and the Hindu extremists continue to go to work on their perceived enemies too.
I don't forsee a bright future here......
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