Decades of Injustice: The Continued Suffering of Kashmiri Rape Victims at the Hands of Indian Forces

India has been using collective violence as a weapon to suppress the freedom movement. However, Kashmiri women are the biggest victims of bare Indian democracy in the Occupied #JammuAndKashmir. 

According to Kashmir Media Service, from 1989 to 2020, 11224 Kashmiri women have been sexually abused by the Indian Army.

Similarly, in 1992, over 882 Kashmiri women were victims of gang rape.

As per a 1994 Human Rights Watch report, the Indian Army uses mass rape as a weapon of intimidation and collective punishment, with the Indian Army committing looting, massacres and rapes as reprisals against Kashmiri Freedom Fighters.

Further, Asia Watch reports 44 extrajudicial killings and 15 rapes in just one week. Violent actions by the Indian Army have continued for years due to the absence of a system of punishment and punishment, Asia Watch added. 

After 76 years, a character involved in the abuse was convicted, Human Rights Watch.

According to the report of the Research Society of International Law, the Indian forces did not even left women between the ages of 11 and 60.

As a result of the Indian government's open dispensation, Indian forces are involved in sexual assault crimes without fear. According to the Human Rights Watch report in 1996, the Indian Army is using rape as a weapon against the freedom movement.

A 2005 report by the Bayan Board of Directors unveiled that the rate of sexual violence against Kashmiri women is the highest in the world.

In the words of Shab Mathur, rape is an important part of Indian strategy in Kashmir.

According to the Council for Social Development, AFSPA has a central role in inciting Indian soldiers to abuse.

According to the report of The Guardian, from 1979 to 2020, more than 150 Indian military officers of major rank were involved in systematic sexual abuse.

On February 23, 1991, over 100 Kashmiri women were raped by men of the 4th Rajputana Rifles in village #Kananposhpora of #Kupwara district.

On March 17, 1991, 53 #Kashmiriwomen confessed to being raped by Indian soldiers before the Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir's Inquiry Commission.

During the medical examinations conducted between 15 and 21 March 1991, 32 Kashmiri women were tortured and sexually assaulted.

In 1992, the report of the US State Department also said that there is irrefutable evidence of collective abuse against the Indian army in the Kannan Pooshpura tragedy.

In April 2018, 8-year-old Asifa Bano was raped in a temple for 7 days by Hindu extremists in #Kathua to vacate the land from Muslims. After being raped, he was brutally murdered

More than 1000 rape cases are pending in Kashmiri courts. On April 19, 2023, a woman was raped by a BJP leader in #Baramulla district. Likewise, on October 10, 1992, 22 grenadier men gang-raped 9 women in Shokian of #Poona district.

International human rights organizations and NGOs raising voice for women's rights should bring the Indian army to justice for this brutality.

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