Why India is denying ? Because the question is not about human right violation in Kashmir. The question is about something else and we have to find the answer somewhere else
Lets go through the chronology some recent events
- The 43-page report by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), released on July 8, 2019. India-administered Kashmir - The United Nations has accused India again of human rights violations in Kashmir and has called for the formation of a commission of inquiry into the allegations. The report dated June 2018 published in July 2019. See the timing
- US Concerned About Treatment of Muslims in India, Says House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -Pelosi’s comments came during a conversation with Chairman of the U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) John Chambers at a Forum event in Washington DC on July 11, 2019
3. Trump’s offer to mediate in Kashmir - US President Donald Trump’s reported remarks on 22nd July, 2019 that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had asked him to mediate between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir dispute. The Ministry of External Affairs has rejected Trump's remarks, made during his meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan (Photo: Reuters)
- Indian foreign ministry spokesman Raveesh Kumar contradicted Trump’s statements, saying "no such request has been made" by Modi.
- The US administration on Tuesday went into a damage control mode after President Donald Trump caused a stir by offering to mediate between India and Pakistan on the Kashmir dispute, a proposal that New Delhi promptly rejected.
- US clarifies that Kashmir is a bilateral issue between India and Pakistan.
'False, motivated narrative'
India rejected the UN report, calling it "false, with a motivated narrative". In a statement, Indian government's spokesperson Raveesh Kumar accused the OHCHR of "legitimising terrorism".
"The assertions in the report are in violation of India's sovereignty and territorial integrity and ignore the core issue of cross-border terrorism," it said.
Countries across continents support India on Kashmir at UN, Pakistan isolated. Not a single country came out in support of either Pakistan or the OHCHR report on Kashmir, while many questioned the timing and the veracity of the report itself.
Many countries came in support of India as it rejected UN's report on Kashmir. The report, based on "remote monitoring" found no takers
Now we can see that all three events are lined up in quick succession one after another in a matter of less than 15 days. Is it part of well laid down design ? Or are the moves politically motivated to corner India, specially after India standing Firm on its deal to buy S 400 system from Russia?
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar speaks as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo looks on during their joint press conference following a meeting, in New Delhi (Photo: PTI)
Will do what is in our national interest: India to US on S-400 deal. And after Modi- Trump meeting during G20 summit, where Modi reconfirmed India’s stand on the matter. India told the US that it will go by its national interest on S-400 missile deal.
Now lets try to understand the role UN to protect rights violation
In 2018, Israel became the most condemned nation at the UN -The country received 21 out of 27 UN condemnations for violating basic human rights of Palestinians. .
UN Resolutions Against Israel, 1955-2013 - Total of 77 resolution passes. Between 1968 -2002, Israel has violated 32 UN resolutions. Has UN been able to protect right violation effectively ? Has there been any punitive action against Israel? No! Why ? Because Israel is the closest ally of US
I have nothing against Israel. And Israel has been a friendly nation for India. My only point to highlight is that UN has repeatedly failed in it obligation to protect gross scale violation of human right in war torn countries.
Incidentally US itself welcomed ICC’s rejection to investigate war crimes in Afghanistan
ICC rejects request to investigate war crimes in Afghanistan -The International Criminal Court (ICC) has rejected its prosecutor's request to investigate alleged war crimes in Afghanistan.
Court judges highlighted instability and the lack of co-operation with investigators in the country.
The ruling was hailed by US President Donald Trump as a "major international victory" but human rights group Amnesty International criticised it.
It comes a week after the US revoked ICC prosecutor Fatou Bensouda's visa
Myanmar rejects UN probe findings of Rohingya 'genocide'29 AUG 2018
Myanmar rejected the findings of a UN investigation alleging genocide by its military against the Rohingya, after the US and other countries joined growing calls for them to face justice. The country's government says the allegations are false — and Myanmar has 'zero tolerance' for any human rights violations.
Administrative criticisms of UN
Role of elite countriesThere has been criticism that the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States), who are all nuclear powers, have created an exclusive nuclear club whose powers are unchecked. Unlike the General Assembly, the United Nations Security Council does not have true international representation. This has led to accusations that the UNSC only addresses the strategic interests and political motives of the permanent members, especially in humanitarian interventions: for example, protecting the oil-rich Kuwaitis in 1991 but poorly protecting resource-poor Rwandans in 1997.
Moral relativism[edit]
In 2004, former ambassador to the UN Dore Gold published a book called Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos. The book criticized what it called the organization's moral relativism in the face of (and occasional support of)[1]genocide and terrorism
It's sounds good that UN ( and big brother US ) is concerned about rights violation in Kashmir.
However before doing that UN should check whether it could play an effective role to stop the war and stop human rights violation, when US waged war against Iraq ( with false allegation of WMD ), Afghanistan, Syria, Libya etc. where lacs of innocent people died. Now US is threatening to attack Iran, Isn’t Iran a Muslim country. Forget about Islamic country, any country against which US has waged war for their political and economic interests, aren't people dying there. Is it justified to kill people in millions just for their imperialistic interest. Didn't they Nuked Japan ? What did UN do to stop these war and protect human rights ? Unfortunately UN has very little power to play its role effectively. Its being criticized that UN many a times serve the purpose to accommodate and legalise US ( or the UNSC countries ) view point or act of aggression.
Lets go through some of the List of Atrocities committed by US authorities
The My Lai Massacre is the most notorious war crime in US history, and has become the benchmark to which all acts of American military savagery is compared. On March 16, 1968 It is estimated that over 300 civilians were shot or bayoneted to death during the course of several hours.
Kandahar Massacre, War on Terror
This attack is exceptional in that, unlike others on the list, it was carried out by a single US soldier. In the early hours of March 11, 2012, Staff Sergeant Robert Bales snuck away from his base in the Panjawi district in the Kandahar Province and entered a nearby house. He shot all ten residents, killing six. Bales returned briefly to the base before setting out again to another nearby home, where he killed twelve more and wounded two others. The sixteen people killed that day included nine children.
Middle East:
Starting in June 2017, photos and videos from Syrian civilians in Raqqa showed that the US-backed coalition in Syria was illegally using white phosphorus in civilian areas. White phosphorus can burn human flesh down to the bone, and wounds can reignite up to days later. “No matter how white phosphorus is used, it poses a high risk of horrific and long-lasting harm in crowded cities like Raqqa and Mosul
Over 700 children have been killed US coalition airstrikes in Iraq and Syria since August 2014. The US conducted another airstrike against Syria on June 7th, 2017.
On March 21st, 2017, A US airstrike killed at least 30 Syrian civilians in an airstrike on a school in the Raqqa province. The week before, 49 people were killed when US warplanes fired on a target in in the 2017 al-Jinah airstrike, a village in western Aleppo province.
On March 17th, 2017, A US airstrike killed ~112 civilians in Mosul, Iraq. In response, US Defense Secretary James Mattis said, "There is no military force in the world that is proven more sensitive to civilian casualties."
On February 15th, 2017, US-backed Saudi planes bombed a funeral in Yemen, killing 5 women and wounding dozens more. In the 2015 - Present Yemeni Civil War, 16,200 people have been killed including 10,000 civilians, 3 million have been displaced and left homeless, and over 200,000 people are facing shortages of food, water and medicine.
In 2016, the US under Obama dropped 26,171 bombs in the Middle East and North Africa, up 3000 from the previous year. The countries bombed include Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, and Somalia. He authorized 10 times more drone strikes than George W Bush.
From 2011 up to the present day, the US ousted Mummar Gaddafi in Libya, and began conducting an extensive bombing campaign (>110 tomahawk cruise missiles) in the Libyan Civil Wars of 2011 and 2014. This includes 7,700 air strikes, resulting in 30,000 -100,000 deaths.
In 2010, Chelsea Manning's leak of the Iraq War Logs revealed US army reports on civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan; 66,081 out of 109,000 recorded deaths were civilians.
In the light of above it is clear that UN or US concern on rights violation can not be taken in face value. And India government rightfully rejected the UN report, calling it "false, with a motivated narrative".
Edit: While I am fully aligned with India Government stand on the subject, I do not support rights violation by any means. Government of India needs to be extra vigilant to stop any right abuse. The need of the hour is to restore normalcy in Kashmir valley. All concerned parties to work together to bring peace to the valley. UN and International community to press Pakistan to desist from all subversive activities and stop interfering in India’s internal matter with immediate effect. UN should pass resolution to condem Pakistan for sponsoring cross border terrorism in India. Sanction should be imposed on Pakistan for waging war against India. Without which gradual demilitarization of the valley and restoration of peace could be a distant dream.
Refernces:
- UN Resolutions being violated by countries other than Iraq
- UN Resolutions Targeting Israel and Palestinians
- Study: Israel leads in ignoring Security Council resolutions
- ICC refuses to probe Afghan war crimes
- Myanmar rejects UN probe findings of Rohingya 'genocide'
- Criticism of the United Nations - Wikipedia
- Countries across continents support India on Kashmir at UN, Pakistan isolated
- United States war crimes - Wikipedia
- Top 10 American War Crimes
- https://github.com/dessalines/es
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