First published by Context, an imprint of Westland Publications Private

PART V: THE INDIA–PAKISTAN BORDER
1
. The Armed Forces (Jammu and Kashmir) Special Powers Act, 1990,
Indian 
Ministry 
of 
Law 
and 
Justice,
http://legislative.gov.in/actsofparliamentfromtheyear/armed-forces-
jammu-and-kashmir-special-powers-act-1990
;  Human  Rights  Watch,
Human  Rights  Watch  World  Report  1993—India,  Human  Rights
Watch, 
1 
January 
1993,
https://www.refworld.org/docid/467fca6917.html
.
2
. Amnesty International, ‘India: Sopore: A Case Study of Extrajudicial
Killings 
in 
Jammu 
and 
Kashmir’, 
April 
1993,
https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/188000/asa20017199
3en.pdf
;  Haley  Duschinski,  ‘Reproducing  Regimes  of  Impunity’,
Cultural 
Studies 
24, 
no. 
1, 
pp. 
110–132,
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380903221117
.
3
. Jason Burke, ‘WikiLeaks Cables: India Accused of Systematic Use of
Torture  in  Kashmir’,  The  Guardian,  16  December  2010,
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/16/wikileaks-cables-
indian-torture-kashmir
.
4
. Press Trust of India, ‘Wani’s Killing: Curfew Lifted Across Kashmir
after  99  Days  of  Unrest’,  India  Today,  15  October  2016,
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/jammu-and-kashmir/story/kashmir-
unrest-curfew-across-kashmir-lifted-burhan-wani-346696-2016-10-
15
.
8. KASHMIR: Records of Repression

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1
.  Haley  Duschinski,  ‘Reproducing  Regimes  of  Impunity’,  Cultural
Studies, 
24, 
no. 
1, 
p. 
111,
https://doi.org/10.1080/09502380903221117
.
2
. Ibid.
3
.  Ather  Zia,  ‘The  Killable  Kashmiri  and  Weaponised  Democracy’,  in
Resisting Disappearance: Military Occupation and Women’s Activism
in Kashmir,  Decolonizing  Feminisms,  Washington  University  Press,
Seattle,  pp.  50–61;  Patricia  Gossman,  Human  Rights  Watch  and
Human  Rights  Watch  Asia,  India’s  secret  army  in  Kashmir:  New
patterns of abuse emerge in the conflict, New York, 1996.
4
. Structures of Violence: The Indian State in Jammu and Kashmir, The
International  Peoples’  Tribunal  on  Human  Rights  and  Justice  in
Indian-Administered Kashmir [IPTK] and The Association of Parents
of  Disappeared  Persons  [APDP],  Srinagar,  September  2015,
https://jkccs.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/structures-of-violence-
e28093-main-report.pdf
;  ‘Everyone  Lives  in  Fear:  Patterns  of
Impunity  in  Jammu  and  Kashmir’,  18,  no.11(C),  Human  Rights
Watch, 
https://www.hrw.org/report/2006/09/11/everyone-lives-
fear/patterns-impunity-jammu-and-kashmir
.
5
. Naseer Ganai, ‘J&K government issues award money of Rs 12.5 lakh
for 
killing 
militant’, 
11 
February 
2016,
https://www.indiatoday.in/mail-today/story/jandk-government-issues-
award-money-of-rs-12-5-lakh-for-killing-militant-308175-2016-02-
11
;  Angana  P.  Chatterji,  International  People’s  Tribunal  on  Human
Rights and Justice in Indian-administered Kashmir & Association of
Parents  of  Disappeared  Persons,  Buried  Evidence:  Unknown,
Unmarked,  and  Mass  Graves  in  Indian-administered  Kashmir:  A
Preliminary  Report,  2009;  Pankaj  Mishra,  ‘Death  in  Kashmir’,  The
New 
York 
Review, 
21 
September 
2000,
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2000/09/21/death-in-kashmir/
.
6
.  Suhail  Ajmal,  ‘Bandipora  Seethes  in  Anger’,  Greater  Kashmir,  14
March 
2015,
https://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/more/news/bandipora-seethes-
in-anger/
.
7
. Ibid.

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8
.  Ahmed  Ali  Fayyaz,  ‘Corps  Commander,  DGP  Face  First  Killing  in
Bandipore’,