https://internationalviewpoint.org/ International Viewpoint, the monthly English-language magazine of the Fourth International, is a window to radical alternatives world-wide, carrying reports, analysis and debates from all corners of the globe. Correspondents in over 50 countries report on popular struggles, and the debates that are shaping the left of tomorrow. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://internationalviewpoint.org/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH25/siteon0-da713.png?1745245334 https://internationalviewpoint.org/ 25 144 https://internationalviewpoint.org/Breaking-the-silence https://internationalviewpoint.org/Breaking-the-silence 2013-04-26T11:54:52Z text/html en David Barsamian , Pankaj Mishra India Kashmir <p>In Kashmir, the scale of human rights violations—from collective punishment and assassinations, to custodial deaths and disappearances—is staggering. Yet little of what goes on in that Himalayan region reaches the outside. Those who resist Indian rule, the Indian government tells the world, are fundamentalist jihadis backed by Pakistan. But the reality is quite different. Kashmir is an unsettled issue, dating back to the disastrous 1947 British partition plan to divide the subcontinent in two: a Hindu-majority India and a Muslim-majority Pakistan. Today, Kashmir is one of the most volatile places on the planet.</p> - <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/-IV459-April-2013-" rel="directory">IV459 - April 2013</a> / <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-India-+" rel="tag">India</a>, <a href="https://internationalviewpoint.org/+-Kashmir-+" rel="tag">Kashmir</a>