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Paperback. Leading international voices condemn the brutalities of the Kashmir occupation. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1FKP; 3JM; HBJF; HBLX; JPV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 184.
Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world-and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom of speech is non-existent, and human- rights abuses and atrocities are routinely visited on its Muslim-majority population. In the last two decades alone, over seventy thousand people have died. Ignored by its own corrupt politicians, abandoned by Pakistan and the West, which refuses to bring pressure to bear on its regional ally, India, the Kashmiri people's ongoing quest for ... Read more
Kashmir is one of the most protracted and bloody occupations in the world-and one of the most ignored. Under an Indian military rule that, at half a million strong, exceeds the total number of US forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, freedom of speech is non-existent, and human- rights abuses and atrocities are routinely visited on its Muslim-majority population. In the last two decades alone, over seventy thousand people have died. Ignored by its own corrupt politicians, abandoned by Pakistan and the West, which refuses to bring pressure to bear on its regional ally, India, the Kashmiri people's ongoing quest for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Number of Pages
154
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844677351
SKU
V9781844677351
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About Angana P. Chatterji
Arundhati Roy's books include, most recently, Listening to Grasshoppers. Pankaj Mishra's new book, The Revolt Against the West, is coming out in 2011. Hilal Bhatt was born in Srinigar and is a freelance Kashmiri journalist. Angana P. Chatterji is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology, California Institute of Integral Studies and Co-convener of the International People's Tribunal ... Read more
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