The International Committee of the Red Cross has discontinued its heavily curtailed operations in India-administered Kashmir ever since August 5 2019, when New Delhi stripped the disputed region of its political autonomy
The International Committee of the Red Cross has stopped its humanitarian works in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir ever since August 5, when the Indian government stripped the region of its political autonomy and enforced a security and communications clampdown that continues to this day in some form or other.
That the ICRC’s low-key programmes have come to a standstill became evident only after media reported that many people have not been able to visit their family members jailed thousands of miles away from their homes in various Indian cities, such as the family of Ghulam Muhammad Bhat, a 70-year-old longtime activist of religio-political organisation Jamaat-i-Islami, who was detained in July last year.
In the makeshift mortuary of Allahabad Jail, however, four bodies were shown to Hanif. He took no time in identifying his father who was wearing the same clothes he had on four months ago when he was detained. Hanif said the only other layer of clothing his father had been provided was a flimsy sweater that was no math for the cold nights of the place.
The August 5 decision has left unaffected only the working of the two ICRC-funded artificial limb centres in Srinagar and Jammu cities. At least 25 Indian NGOs have lost licences to receive international funding because of their “anti-national” activities and thousands others for failing to renew licences.
An April 2005 cable from the US embassy in Delhi had reported that the ICRC had become frustrated with the Indian government for not acting to halt the "continued ill-treatment of detainees".
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