India’s Crimes Against Humanity and Application of “Responsibility to Protect” (R2P): Prospects and Challenges in the Case of Jammu and Kashmir

The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine is developed to stop genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. Since 2005, the UN operationalized it in Libya, Yemen, Liberia, Syria, South Sudan, and Congo. However, to address India’s genocide in Kashmir, the framework is cont...

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Main Author: Hussain, Mehmood (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 2023
In: Journal of Muslim minority affairs
Year: 2023, Volume: 43, Issue: 1/2, Pages: 186-202
Further subjects:B Realpolitik
B Indo-Pacific
B Responsibility to Protect (R2P)
B Kashmir conflict
B India-Pakistan Rivalry
B Genocide
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Summary:The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine is developed to stop genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and ethnic cleansing. Since 2005, the UN operationalized it in Libya, Yemen, Liberia, Syria, South Sudan, and Congo. However, to address India’s genocide in Kashmir, the framework is contested and politicized. So the paper test the parameters of R2P and its possible implementation. It asks (a) Why the UN has failed to operationalize R2P in Kashmir. (b) What are the underlying reasons and how realpolitik is undermining R2P implementation? It argues that India is involved in a systematic and sustained genocide of the Kashmiri population and illegal settlements of the Hindu community. Nevertheless, major powers’ geo-economics and geopolitical interests, a paradigm shift in the global order where India is placed at the heart of U.S. hedging strategy against China, and New Delhi's sustained role in regional and global politics prevent the international community from invoking R2P.
ISSN:1469-9591
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of Muslim minority affairs
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/13602004.2023.2262846