Ongoing separatist militancy in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir
This article is about the localized insurgency in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir. For the conflict between India and Pakistan over the larger region of Kashmir, see Kashmir conflict.
Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
Part of the Kashmir conflict
CIA map of the Kashmir region
Date
13 July 1989[1] – present (34 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 6 days)
Location
Jammu and Kashmir
Status
Ongoing
Parties
India
Indian Armed Forces
Indian Army
Central Armed Police Force
Jammu and Kashmir Police
Political Parties:
All Parties Hurriyat Conference
Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir
Armed groups:
Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Jaish-e-Mohammed
United Jihad Council
Hizbul Mujahideen
People’s Anti-Fascist Front
The Resistance Front
Dukhtaran-e-Millat[2][3][4][5]
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami
Al-Badr
Other separatist Movements & Insurgent militant groups[6][7][8][9][10][11]
The insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, also known as the Kashmir insurgency, is an ongoing separatist militant insurgency against the Indian administration in Jammu and Kashmir,[14][36] a territory constituting the southwestern portion of the larger geographical region of Kashmir, which has been the subject of a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan since 1947.[37][38]
Jammu and Kashmir, long a breeding ground of separatist ambitions,[39] has experienced the insurgency since 1989.[40][36] Although the failure of Indian governance and democracy lay at the root of the initial disaffection, Pakistan played an important role in converting the latter into a fully-developed armed insurgency.[14][15] Some insurgent groups in Kashmir support complete independence, whereas others seek the region's accession to Pakistan.[41][15]
More explicitly, the roots of the insurgency are tied to a dispute over local autonomy.[42] Democratic development was limited in Kashmir until the late 1970s, and by 1988, many of the democratic reforms provided by the Indian government had been reversed and non-violent channels for expressing discontent were limited, which caused a dramatic increase in support for insurgents advocating violent secession from India.[42] In 1987, a disputed election[43] held in the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir created a catalyst for the insurgency when it resulted in some of the state's legislative assembly members forming armed insurgent groups.[44][45][46] In July 1988, a series of demonstrations, strikes, and attacks on the Indian government effectively marked the beginning of the insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir, which escalated into the most severe security issue in India during the 1990s.
Pakistan, with whom India has fought three major wars over the Muslim-majority region, has officially claimed to be giving only its "moral and diplomatic" support to the separatist movement.[47] The Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence has been accused by both India and the international community of supporting and supplying arms as well as providing training to "mujahideen" militants[48][49] in Jammu and Kashmir.[50][49][51] In 2015, a former President of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, admitted that the Pakistani state had supported and trained insurgent groups in Kashmir throughout the 1990s.[52] Several new militant groups with radical Islamist views emerged during this time and changed the ideological emphasis of the movement from that of plain separatism to Islamic fundamentalism. This occurred partly due to the influence of a large number of Muslim jihadist militants who began to enter the Indian-administered Kashmir Valley through Pakistani-controlled territory across the Line of Control following the end of the Soviet–Afghan War in the 1980s.[47] India has repeatedly called on Pakistan to end its alleged "cross-border terrorism" in the region.[47]
The conflict between militants and Indian security forces in Kashmir has led to a large number of casualties;[53] many civilians have also died as a result of being targeted by various armed militant groups.[54] According to government data, around 41,000 people—consisting of 14,000 civilians, 5,000 security personnel and 22,000 militants—have died because of the insurgency as of March 2017[update], with most deaths happening in the 1990s and early 2000s.[55] Non-governmental organisations have claimed a higher death toll. The insurgency has also forced the large-scale migration of non-Muslim minority Kashmiri Hindus out of the Kashmir Valley.[56] Since the revocation of the special status of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019, the Indian military has intensified its counter-insurgency operations in the region.
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