Are human rights universal or not?

The UK, France and Germany have pressed Saudi Arabia to provide facts for its widely derided account of the death of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In a joint statement released on Sunday, the UK, France and Germany said: “There remains an urgent need for clarification of exactly what happened on 2 October – beyond the hypotheses that have been raised so far in the Saudi investigation, which need to be backed by facts to be considered credible.” Of course, murder of any human being, be it a common man or a journalist is condemnable. However, on Khashoggi’ murder, the US and western countries say that such act is not acceptable. But what about thousands of Kashmiris that have been killed, injured, maimed and woman raped in Indian Occupied Kashmir. Are Kashmiris are not human beings. Are human rights are universal and for all mankind or not?
It is a sad reflection on the state of human rights all over the globe that Kashmiris are being brutalized by 700,000 Indian military and paramilitary forces. Human rights violations are frightful: extrajudicial killings, torture, rape, abductions, arson, and arbitrary detentions. Since 1989, more than 100,000 Kashmiris have been killed. Indian forces routinely commit war crimes with impunity under emergency laws. The scale of wrongdoing and barbarism in Indian Occupied Kashmir pales before what was witnessed in Bosnia, Kosovo, East Timor and Southern Sudan prior to international intervention, yet the United States and the United Nations have watched the Kashmiris suffer like spectators at the Roman Coliseum. Apart from the magnitude of violence unleashed by the Indian military forces against peaceful protesters in Kashmir, the most poignant aspect of the situation is acute suffering of entire population caused by the frequent curfews, arrests and detentions.
This is a situation without precedent in the south Asian subcontinent and with few parallels in the world today. It appears that lives and hopes of Kashmiris are worth less than those of others. If India believed its rule in Kashmir was by consent rather than by coercion, it would hold a plebiscite with alacrity, just as the Great Britain routinely permitted the Scotland to vote for independence. If, however, the world powers and the United Nations are unmoved by international law and moral justice to act, then Kashmiris will be forced to organize their own referendum like in Catalonia, Spain with the assistance of eminent persons of international standing and their sympathizers to decide their future. It is universally acknowledged that Kashmir is a flashpoint and war between two nuclear states could lead to unprecedented destruction because of nuclear arsenal and delivery systems.
The gruesome status quo in Kashmir is both legally and morally unacceptable and militarily and economically frightening. During the last 30 years, the trigger-happy forces have martyred 93,935 thousand Kashmiris. Thousands of innocent youth have been subjected to disappearance in custody and their whereabouts remain untraced. Besides these cruelties, the occupation authorities have usurped all kinds of freedom and frequently impose restrictions on the people and pro-liberation leadership to suppress the sentiment of dissent in the territory. India is hell bent upon changing the demographic composition of the territory and turn Muslim majority into a minority. Frustrated by the apathy of the international community and non-implementation of United Nations Security Council resolutions, Kashmiri youth took up the arms in 1989. However, after 9/11, political landscape of the world changed dramatically, adversely impacting the freedom struggles of the people the world over who were dubbed as terrorists.