Human right violations anywhere in the world get ample coverage in the local print and electronic media. However, the region which gets little or scant coverage despite serious human right violation is the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK). Some newspapers in the Philippines avoid covering events in Kashmir as a matter of policy as they do not want to indulge in disputed issues. I respect their policy. However, I believe that such an attitude would rather encourage the perpetrators of such heinous crimes against humanity and would further exacerbate the situation in regions so affected. In other words it amounts to conniving with or rewarding the oppressor. However, it is a matter of great satisfaction that such a policy is not followed by all the newspapers and some dailies in the Philippines have the guts and the courage to call spade a spade. I express my thanks to this and all other newspapers who do not subscribe to such an ambivalent approach.

In the following paragraphs I would like to dilate upon the situation in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) and the sufferings the people in Kashmir are exposed to. Just for the information of readers, in the last three months more than 115 Kashmiris have been martyred, over 15,000 are injured with scores in critical condition and several hundred blinded due to use of pellet guns, including children and women. The curfew imposed by Indian occupation forces has led to severe shortage of food, medicines, water and other basic amenities and has added to the Kashmiris’ plight.

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