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Article: Kashmir: In the Crossfire.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- January 1, 1997
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The people of Kashmir live in fear of the gun whether in the hands of the militants or of the Indian security forces, writes Victoria Schofield in this comprehensive study of what she rightly calls the oldest unresolved conflict on the agenda of the United Nations. Caught in the crossfire of a war that has poisoned relations between India and Pakistan for half a century, Kashmiris' lives have been convulsed by bomb attacks, reprisals and curfews.
The history of the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir which has been deeply scarred by three wars in the past fifty years and is now firmly in the grip of terrorism, has, sadly, been one of conquest and subjugation ...