Indian forces martyr 16 Kashmiris in first five months of 2026 in IIOJK
Srinagar: Indian forces, in their unabated acts of state terrorism, martyred sixteen Kashmiris during the first five months of 2026 in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to data issued today by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, the Indian Army, Rashtriya Rifles, Central Reserve Police Force, Special Operations Group, and notorious agencies such as the Counter Intelligence Kashmir (CIK), National Investigation Agency (NIA), and State Investigation Agency (SIA) arrested over 1,068 civilians, including youth, students, activists, and women. Many of them were booked under draconian laws, including the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and the Public Safety Act (PSA), during 1,139 cordon and search operations and house raids carried out during the period. At least 34 civilians were injured due to the use of brute force by Indian police and paramilitary forces against defenceless Kashmiris.
Additionally, intensifying its colonial-style suppression, the highly communal and corrupt administration led by New Delhi-appointed Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha, under the direct control of the Indian Home Minister, seized 141 properties, including houses, land, shops, institutions, and vehicles belonging to activists in IIOJK. These illegal confiscations are part of the BJP-led Indian government’s strategy to economically strangle Kashmiris and suppress their political stance and freedom aspirations.
Meanwhile, forces’ personnel martyred one person in a fake encounter, while a young boy was killed by an Indian Army vehicle during the month of May.
These grisly killings are meant to terrify Kashmiris, but every killing instils new vigour in the people living in the world’s most militarised zone.
At least forty persons, including students, youth, activists, and women, were arrested by Indian forces during the month of May.
Meanwhile, over three thousand Hurriyat leaders, activists, youth, students, journalists, women, and human rights defenders, including APHC Chairman Masarat Aalam Butt, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Aasiya Andrabi, Naheeda Nasreen, Fehmeeda Sofi, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Mohammad Ayaz Akbar, Peer Saifullah, Merajudin Kalwal, Farooq Ahmad Dar, Advocate Mian Abdul Qayoom, Dr Hameed Fayaz, Mushtaq-ul-Islam, Bilal Siddiqi, Molvi Bashir Usmani, Fayaz Hussain Jaferi, Zaffar Akbar Butt, Advocate Zahid Ali, Dr Muhammad Qasim Fakhtoo, Rafiq Ahmad Ganai, Khurrum Parvaiz (human rights defender), and dozens of Kashmiri women, continue to remain lodged in different jails in India and IIOJK.
These detainees are among the worst victims of the political vendetta of the Bharatiya Janata Party regime and are being victimised for their affiliation with the demand for political justice in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
