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This Central Intelligence Agency conference report, numbered RTT 95-10039 and dated October 1995, presents the proceedings of a conference held 30 September to 1 October 1993. The CIA's Geographic Resources Division sponsored the conference. In it, academic geographers, anthropologists and US Government officials examined ethnic conflict by region, covering Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and South Asia. The report also discusses what these conflicts mean for US policy. It does not deal with UFOs or unidentified aerial phenomena.
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‘Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268 DR. SCHWARTZBERG: The Indian Govemment has been willing to pull back. This has not happened yet in Kashmir and Punjab, however. QUESTION: Would you comment on the Kashmir sit- uation? § DR. SCHWARTZBERG: I plan to work on Kashmir during the coming year. The people in Kashmir are alienated to a degree that willpreclude their reconcili- ation with India. I cannot predict exactly the shape of the future of Kashmir, but I will predict that there will be a significant change in the situation there. I am more optimistic in the case of Punjab, a richer area and strategically much more important. There seem to be signs that India has the Punjab situation l s F Reverse Blank , 149 under control. However, the raid on the Golden Tem- ple will not soon be forgotten, nor the many other human rights abuses that the Indian Govemment has committed in the name of quelling that insurrection. I believe, however, that the prospects for reconciliation exist, and many people who know Punjab better than I do say that, even at the worst of times, the majority of Sikhs were always moderate and that the extremists never represented the Sikh rank and file. One fundamental difference between Kashmir and the Punjab is that the dissociation of Punjab from India would probably let loose an unstoppable Ball<aniza- tion of India, while dissociation of Kashmir would not necessarily result in such an outcome. Approved for Release: 2018/06/01 C00123268
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