A Year Since Abrogation
THE A Year Since Abrogation August 2020 Jammu & Kashmir Solidarity Group Acknowledgements We, the individuals and collectives involved in this report, dedicate this report to the perseverance and spirit of resilience of the people of Jammu & Kashmir. We thank all the organisations and groups involved in the last one-year process of the campaign in solidarity with the people of J&K. Let us dedicate ourselves to the future solidarities between the people of mainland India and J&K. The Commission of Inquiry team also takes this opportunity to thank all the people and organisations who met with us, during our visit to the Kashmir valley in the month of February 2020. We are grateful to each one of you for spending time with us, sharing your experiences and helping our learning and understanding about the impact the devastating political move of August 2019 had on each one of you. To the families of the victims, we are forever indebted to you for agreeing to meet with us and risk re- living the pain – to make sure truth is documented. To the lawyers, journalists, trade unionists, academicians, business community, dal dwellers association, boat owners, Wular lake fishers community, Sopore apple growers, saffron farmers, etc., we salute your courage amidst intimidating and often annihilating state terror. We thank the Kashmir Times friends, and families of many of our companions, for the hospitality extended to the team/s. We also acknowledge some members in the administration in Srinagar, who spared time to meet some of the teams. We thank Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons, #StandWithKashmir, and many other such platforms and initiatives of Kashmiri people, without whom this campaign or report would have been near impossible.
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