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Category: Kashmir

Aug 30, 2018Aug 30, 2018 Lee Rhiannon Kashmir

Kashmir – Australia’s involvement

I will visit Occupied Jammu and Kashmir shortly. In preparing for this visit I have been interested to read about Australia’s involvement. The way Britain, the former coloniser of this region, withdrew from the sub-continent in 1948 laid the basis for one of the most ruthless, long lasting and bloody occupations the world has witnessed. … Continue reading Kashmir – Australia’s involvement

Aug 22, 2018Aug 24, 2018 Lee Rhiannon Kashmir

Kashmiris’ right to self determination

Next week I travel to Kashmir to meet with local people and NGOs to learn about the human right abuses and consequences of the ongoing denial of self-determination. Indian novelist Arundhati Roy has described Kashmir as “the most densely militarised zone in the world”. This was in a 2013 interview on Democracy Now. Roy has … Continue reading Kashmiris’ right to self determination

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