India: New Reports of Extrajudicial Killings in Kashmir

Click to expand Image Paramilitary soldiers at a temporary check point in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India, August 5, 2020. © 2020 AP Photo/Dar Yasin (New York) – The Indian authorities should immediately order an independent, impartial investigation into the killings by security forces of three people in July 2020 in Jammu and Kashmir, Human Rights Watch said today. The army claims that the three were militants and were killed in a retaliatory gunfight after they fired on the security forces during a search operation on July 18 in Shopian district, and were then buried in Baramulla…

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