MORE ON\u00a0HUMAN RIGHTS<\/a><\/h4>\n\n- Kashmiris ‘fed up’ with India’s human rights abuses<\/a>today<\/li>\n
- Philippines protests warn of threat to democracy under Duterte<\/a>today<\/li>\n
- Do Black Lives Matter in the immigrant rights movement?<\/a>today<\/li>\n
- Refugees in Greece’s Lesbos left in the cold and rain<\/a>today<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n
As the world observes the\u00a0UN<\/a>-sponsored Human Rights Day, rights violations continue to be a major issue in Indian-administered\u00a0Kashmir<\/a>.<\/p>\nSince 1989, nearly 70,000 people have been killed in violence that separatist leaders say the UN has done too little to prevent.<\/p>\n
For the past year, the remote, northern region was gripped by widespread protests, following the killing of a prominent rebel commander.<\/p>\n
In the crackdown that followed, more than 100 protesters were killed, thousands were arrested and hundreds were blinded by police who shot at civilians with iron pellets.<\/p>\n
Al Jazeera’s Imtiaz Tyab reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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As the world observes the\u00a0UN<\/a>-sponsored Human Rights Day, rights violations continue to be a major issue in Indian-administered\u00a0Kashmir<\/a>.<\/p>\n Since 1989, nearly 70,000 people have been killed in violence that separatist leaders say the UN has done too little to prevent.<\/p>\n For the past year, the remote, northern region was gripped by widespread protests, following the killing of a prominent rebel commander.<\/p>\n In the crackdown that followed, more than 100 protesters were killed, thousands were arrested and hundreds were blinded by police who shot at civilians with iron pellets.<\/p>\n Al Jazeera’s Imtiaz Tyab reports.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Posted by Colin Bunn Al Jazeera http:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/12\/kashmiris-fed-up-indias-human-rights-abuses-171210181501568.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1261,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1260\/revisions\/1261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}