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The end of 80s saw a remarkable change as oppressed societies
around the world decided that it was time for a revolution. The
winds of change swept across Eastern Europe and Central Asia. A
superpower crumbled, a continent was transformed and the world
got a whole new face. This was enough of an inspiration for the
oppressed Kashmiris, who have been denied the right to selfdetermination
for half a century and who had been pledged this
right in 1947 by India, Pakistan and rest of the world through
various United Nations resolutions. So end of the 80s also saw a
revolution in the attitude of erstwhile docile Kashmiris, when they
were forced to take up arms against their oppressors. Independent
world authorities acknowledge that this uprising is massive and
spontaneous1.