A letter from the foreign minister of Pakistan to the president of the Security Council and a request from China for a meeting.

By fiat, through these rules, the Government of India claiming authority under the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Act, 2019, imposed rules implementing direct, unmediated central Indian Government rule in Jammu and Kashmir.  Among other things, these rules gave the Government of India-appointed “Lieutenant Governor” the power to select the Chief Minister and other Ministers of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir

Topics: changing the laws in force in occupied territory, international humanitarian law violation, no consent of governed, violation of political rights, disempowerment, colonial domination

Pakistan's 13 August, 2019 letter requesting a meeting of the Security Council on Jammu and Kashmir.

By fiat, through this law, the Government of India, among other things:

• “Reorganized” the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir into two “union territories”: the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and the Union Territory of Ladakh
• Granted the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir a total of five seats in the Lok Sabha and the Union Territory of Ladakh one seat in the Lok Sabha
• Imposed a Government of India-appointed lieutenant governor as the administrative head of both Union Territories
• Provided for a 107-member legislative assembly in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir and no legislative assembly in the Union Territory of Ladakh
• Gave the legislative assembly for the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir some power to make laws (other than with respect to public order and police powers), but made those powers subject to the Government of India’s superior powers
• Gave the Government of India-appointed “Lieutenant Governor” the power to select the Chief Minister and other Ministers of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir

Topics: changing the laws in force in occupied territory, international humanitarian law violation, no consent of governed, violation of political rights, disempowerment, colonial domination

On August 5 and 6, 2019, the Government of India imposed unprecedented legal changes in Indian-Administered Jammu and Kashmir, including Presidential Order C.O. 273.  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