India: Appeal to armed opposition groups in Jammu and Kashmir to abide by humanitarian law

India: Appeal to armed opposition groups in Jammu and Kashmir to abide by humanitarian law

Index Number: ASA 20/038/1997
Date Published: 31 July 1997
Categories: Asia And The Pacific, India

This report lists several deliberate and arbitrary killings of civilians and indiscriminate attacks in which armed opposition groups have ignored their obligation to distinguish between military and civilian targets and to refrain from attacking civilian targets.