Victim families of Thune-Kangan massacre await justice
Srinagar: Justice continues to elude the victim families of gory Thune-Kangan massacre for the past 34 years whose near and dear ones lose their lives at the hands of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel in Thune Kangan area on this day in 1990 in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to Kashmir Media Service, fifteen people, including Eng Tariqul Islam, Ghulam Muhammad Wani, Frooq Ahmed Lone, Parvaiz Ahmed, driver and conductor of the passenger bus, were martyred and a dozen were injured when the bus, in which they were travelling, was fired on and burnt by the Indian BSF personnel. The victim families are still awaiting justice while the perpetrators of this heinous crime continued their state terrorism with black law, Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) in the territory.
An eyewitness of the gruesome massacre told KMS that marauding Indian BSF personnel fired on the passenger bus when they were travelling from Sunamag to Kangan at evening time on Sepember 10, 1990. “The Indian Border Security Force personnel stopped the bus and fired upon us without any rhyme and reason at the Thune area of the Kangan.”
He said that they saved themselves after they escaped in the darkness.
