17th anniversary of Shopian rape & murder tragedy
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Islamabad : Justice continues to elude families of Shopian double rape and murder victims of two Kashmiri women despite the passage of seventeen years.
A report released by Kashmir Media Service on the 17th anniversary of Shopian rape and double murder incident, today, said, justice continues to elude victim families despite the passage of more than one decade. The victims, Aasiya and Nelofar, were abducted, raped and subsequently killed by the men in uniform in Shopian, Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and their bodies were found on 30th May, 2009.
The incident is a chilling example of Indian troops’ brutalities in Kashmir and is witness to institutionalized and structured violence that India is using in the territory.
It said the Shopian double rape and murder is a chilling example of Indian troops’ brutalities in IIOJK and the incident is witness to institutionalized and structured violence that India is using in the territory.
The report deplored harassment, torture and rape of Kashmiri women by Indian troops to suppress the Kashmiris’ freedom struggle. Over 11, 270 cases of rape, gang-rape and molestation by Indian troops, paramilitary and police personnel have been reported in IIOJK since 1989.
The report lamented that the Kashmiri women were subjected to the worst kind of torture by Indian troops owing to their role in the freedom movement. Kashmiri women are the worst victims of Indian state terrorism as India is using rape of the Kashmiri women as a weapon of war in IIOJK.
It said India is employing rape as a military tactic to terrorize and humiliate Kashmiris.
The victim family, who has lost faith in the Indian institutions, demanded justice from independent international forums.
APHC spokesman Adv Abdul Rashid Minhas in a statement issued in Srinagar, while paying tributes to Aasiya and Neelofar, has termed the Shopian double rape and murder tragedy as a serious attack on the collective conscience of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
The statement said that the Shopian tragedy had shaken the conscience of the people of the Kashmir valley and it could not be neglected in any way.
