On August 5, 2019, the Government of India imposed unprecedented legal changes in Indian-Administered Jammu and Kashmir, including Presidential Order C.O. 272. By fiat, this eliminated historic protections guaranteed by international humanitarian law, treaty and constitutional guarantees for the benefit of the indigenous people of Indian-Administered Jammu and Kashmir. This also overturned the legal basis for seven decades of Indian jurisprudence (itself based in violations of international law) relating to Indian-Administered Jammu and Kashmir and imposed almost all of the provisions of the Indian Constitution to the territory. This is a major violation of international humanitarian law, human rights, indigenous rights, treaty obligations and constitutional guarantees.
Topics: changing the laws in force in occupied territory, international humanitarian law violation, no consent of governed, violation of economic rights, violation of cultural rights, violation of social rights, demographic change, settler colonialism, land expropriation, forced demographic change, colonial domination, dispossession, disempowerment, marginalization, right to education, right to work, indigenous rights
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On August 5, 2019, the Government of India announced unprecedented steps relating to Indian-Admnistered Jammu and Kashmir, including Presidential Order C.O. 272 (claiming the exercise of powers pursuant to clause (1) of Article 370 of the Indian Constitution). By its terms, this order:
Note that Presidential Order C.O. 272:
August 2019
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