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U.N. report on India-Pakistan conflict in Kashmir spreads blame

The U.N. human rights office pinned blame for violence on both countries in its first report on the disputed region.

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GENEVA (AN) — In its first report on the disputed region of Kashmir, the U.N. human rights office pinned blame for violence on both India and Pakistan and called for independent experts to investigate allegations of human rights abuses.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, or OHCHR, reported that both sides have gotten away with chronic impunity while killing or ruining many lives. It said security forces from India and Pakistan violated human rights vying for control of a region at the center of two of three wars they waged since winning independence from British rule in 1947.

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