Fai urges world powers not be silent spectators to India's crimes in Kashmir.

WASHINGTON -- The scale of Indian atrocities in Kashmir, as detailed in the recent US State Department human rights report, dwarfs what was witnessed in Bosnia and East Timor prior to international intervention, but in the case of people of Kashmir the world powers have just been silent spectators, a prominent Kashmiri leader said Thursday.

"That complacency gives the impression that Kashmiri lives and hopes are worth less than those of others," Dr. Ghulam Nabi Fai, Chairman of the 'World Forum for Peace and Justice', a Washington-based advocacy group, said in a statement.

The section on India in the report, which contains graphic documentation of human rights violations being committed by the occupation forces in Jammu and Kashmir, takes the secrecy veil off of India's crimes against humanity. "Perhaps now the United Nations can share the outrage felt by the people of Kashmir."

"It is well documented that the bloody occupation has resulted in massive human rights violations, particularly targeting women and children. The sanctity of women has been violated, in a gruesome and unforgiving fashion," Fai said while...