Understanding the current conflict and occupation within Jammu and Kashmir means revisiting the events of late 1989 and 1990. Perhaps there is no singular flashpoint other than the massacre at Gawkadal (sometimes referred to as Gaw Kadal) bridge in Srinagar on January...
WKA Monthly News Roundup – December 2022 As the sun sets on 2022, it casts long shadows over Kashmir. This year India strengthened its grip on the region, strangling life and shattering Muslim communities in the valley. Through relentless use of settler-colonialism,...
Freedom of speech has become a rallying claim for the world’s autocrats. Their actions, however, routinely show they do not care for free speech but only freedom of their speech, as they seek to eliminate speech that is critical to them. Assault on the freedom to...
WKA Monthly News Round Up – November 2022 2022 is ticking down. It has been a year of sorrow and further degradation of the fundamental rights of Kashmiris and Muslims throughout India. November further revealed the Indian state to be more deeply complicit in violence...
Time heals all wounds is a common idiom for those who want to forget. Some wounds can never heal, and genocide should never be forgotten. November 5th, 2022 commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Jammu Massacre. In 75 years, there has been no justice for those...
WKA Monthly News Round Up – October 2022 Welcome back to the WKA Kashmir Dispatch for October. Today, we’ll review the top news stories impacting Kashmir this month. Kashmir’s identity is being systematically erased We have long documented that one of the main goals...
In last month’s blog, we discussed how India’s settler colonialism is fundamentally transforming Jammu and Kashmir into an unrecognizable state, stripping away the rights and livelihoods of the region's native Muslim populations and replacing them with Hindu...
WKA News Round Up – September 2022 The month of September brings the opening of the U.N. General Assembly. Most of the world’s leaders attended to discuss and give speeches about the most critical issues facing the world’s population. While the eyes of the world are...
Colonization may seem a relic of the past. Many of the world’s great powers have seemingly dismantled their overseas holdings, in favor of new nations run by their citizens, and while most of those new nations will balance their interests between the world powers, to...
WKA News Round Up – August 2022 August commemorates the 75th year of Indian Independence from the United Kingdom. The subcontinent was divided in bloodshed. The partition killed between 200,000 and 2 million people and displaced many more. In the decades that...
Photo credits: Daily SabahStruggle and strife have been a part of life in Kashmir since the partition of India and Indian occupation of Jammu and Kashmir. Four wars have been fought between India and Pakistan, two nuclear-armed powers. Yet, the annexation that began...
WKA News Round-Up – July 2022 Welcome to the World Kashmir Awareness Forum’s News Round-Up for July. Here are several of the most important stories that have impacted Jammu and Kashmir this month. Yasin Malik begins hunger strike Chairman of the Jammu Kashmir...
Image taken by: National Herald IndiaIn the seventy-five years since the Partition of India, Kashmir has scarcely known peace. Its rich, beautiful lands, its diverse peoples, and its dynamic history are pockmarked with the scars of war and the land filled with the...
WKA News roundup – June 2022 Welcome to the World Kashmir Awareness Forum news round up for June of 2022- The Kashmir Dispatch. Here, we will be highlighting the most important stories that have occurred this past month. Yasin Malik sentenced to life in prison In the...
One of the most important chapters in the authoritarian playbook is weaponizing the law. It allows the regime to further consolidate power by cracking down on its opponents. The first people targeted are often minority groups who are out of favor with the ruling...
WKA News Round-Up – May 2022 As India’s renewed occupation grinds toward its third year, we see the brutality of their occupation month after month. With every month that passes, we see more people arrested for politically motivated, exaggerated, and trumped-up...
Violence against women is a serious and under-reported problem. Whether it be from harassing language online, sexual harassment, or more serious crimes such as domestic violence and rape – violence against women is a stain on human civilization that has never been...
WKA News Roundup – April The situation in Indian Occupied Kashmir continues to exist perilously close to the edge. We’ve previously shown how the risk of genocide rises as hate speech continues unchecked. We have seen the cumulative effects of Indian leaders who have...
Hate speech is reaching epidemic proportions in India as government leaders remain silent in the face of an impending tragedy. The World Kashmir Awareness Forum has raised the alarm in our previous posts; we do not say this to engage in hyperbole – genocide remains a...
WKA News Round-Up – March March 2022 has been a vivid reminder of the depths of cruelty humans can inflict on each other. As the Russian invasion of Ukraine progressed, the world saw images of war crimes committed daily as the war in Ukraine raged on. The question...
Vivek Agnihotri’s latest movie The Kashmir Files comes out today. Yet, it has already created rave reviews across India well before its release. The movie is being privately screened in Jammu for politicians and army officers stationed there. It’s being heralded as a...