UDHR-Kashmir is an exception.

 
A land that is famous for tyranny is the land of renowned beauty. The children are brought up in
the line of fire. Girls dream of peace rather than enjoying the freedoms and luxuries. There is no
guarantee whether a boy leaving for school will come back in a coffin or on a strature. The first
right granted by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is freely infringed within the walls
of the Indian occupied State of Jammu and Kashmir. Harming the dignity of Kashmiris is as
simple as killing a mosquito, the people belonging to Kashmiri territory are seen as terrorists
(atankwadi) in whole regions of the state of Baharat. 
                         Recently a group of men from Hindutva outfit attacked two Kashmiri roadside
vendors in Uttar Pradesh’s capital Lucknow. A resident stopped the saffron-clad men from
further assaulting the two men who were selling the dry fruits. The right to life is inalienable and
universal but Kashmiris are an exception. Kashmir is the most militarized zone around the world.
The Public Safety Act (PSA) allows incarceration without trial for two years and the Armed
Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is a constitutional provision that gives Indian troops
overarching powers and legal immunity for their actions in Jammu and Kashmir.  Several
civilians have been killed wrongfully by declaring them as militants who were mainly the
professors, scientists, and bright students. No tears are wept on the killing of civilians by forces
by the radical Institutions of India, so to speak. The media unhesitantly casts forces as heroes.
What under the circumstances and conditions can be said about respect for human rights? The
end to civilians’ killings looks very far unless the conscience of those who commit these wakes
up. The worst low a human conscience could stoop is when humans are murdered to quench the
thirst of radical nationalism. The enforcement agencies in Kashmir engage in torture and other
cruel, inhuman treatment or punishment in the name of counter-terrorism. The state uses
violence like methods to control and terrorize its people to maintain the status quo. 
          The AFSPA gives security forces extraordinary powers in the region and methods like
torture, extrajudicial killings, custodial deaths, and disappearances exist to a great extent in the
valley. The security forces are allowed to impose torture and other coercive methods without any
evidence. Kashmiri students are questioned at every station and airport in India. They are
harassed, detained, rusticated from the educational institutions, and in some cases tortured to
death discriminately. This inhuman and degrading behavior is been continued since 1990 and the
people of the valley are constantly being suffered and the environment of torture killings,
disappearances of Kashmiri youth-led to psychological problems. Almost 23 the rights out of 30
granted by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights are sheerly violated. Tragically, civilized
nations have fallen from their lofty calling: namely, human rights for all mankind. There is a sad
commentary on the state of human rights all over the globe. It seems to me that until there
evolves a generally accepted moral duty among peoples and nations to assist all victims of
widespread human rights violations by force or other stiff retaliation, human rights enforcement
mechanisms will operate haphazardly and whimsically for reasons unrelated to the harm to the
victims or the villainy of the perpetrators. It is the job of all human rights defenders to jump-start
that moral evolution. The international community has failed to held India accountable for such
actions and to resolve the issue for past seven decades.