Islamabad: Kashmiri women are the worst victims of Indian troops’ atrocities in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir as BJP-led Indian government is using rape as a weapon to suppress the Kashmiris’ righteous political demand of right to self-determination.
A report released by Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict, today, revealed that Indian forces’ personnel had sexually assaulted over 11,263 women during the last 36 years in the occupied territory.
It said India is deliberately targeting women in IIOJK to humiliate and terrorize the Kashmiris. It said like Kunanposhpora mass rape, Shopian double rape and murder, and rape and murder of a minor girl in Kathua depict the brutal face of Indian forces deployed in the occupied territory.
Around a hundred women were gang-raped by Indian troops during a cordon and search operation in Kunanposhpora area of Kupwara district on the night of February 23, 1991. Two females, Aasiya and Neelofar of Shopian, were abducted by Indian men in uniform on May 29, 2009, gang-raped and subsequently killed in custody. Their bodies were recovered from a shallow stream in the area the next morning.
An 8-year-old Muslim girl, Aasifa Bano was repeatedly gang raped by Indian policemen and communal Hindutva activists in Kathua area of Jammu region in January 2018.
The report maintained that so far not a single Indian forces’ personnel involved in such heinous crimes in the occupied territory had been punished.
The report pointed out that Kashmiris would never forget the horrific incidents of mass rape in Kunanposhpora and several other such inhuman incidents in IIOJK. It urged the world women rights organizations to raise their voice in support of the Kashmiri women.
Over three dozen Kashmiri women are facing illegal detentions and mental torture in different jails of IIOJK and in India.
