ISLAMABAD: In India’s illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, Hurriyat leaders and organizations have expressed deep regret that despite the past three decades, justice has not been provided to the victims of the Kunan-Poshpura gang-rape.
According to the Kashmir Media Service, Indian troops gang-raped about 100 women of all ages from eight to eighty on the night of 23 February 1991 during a siege and search operation in the Kunan Poshpora area of Kupwara district.
On the eve of the Kunan Poshpora gang-rape tragedy, Molvi Bashir Ahmed Irfani, Yasin Attai, Yasmeen Raja, Fahreeda Behanji, Leader of Democratic Freedom Party Jammu Kashmir, Advocate Arshad Iqbal, Leader of Jammu and Kashmir National Front Wahammad-Kasheeb Muhammad-Kasheeb Leader. In her statements in Srinagar on Thursday, Khawateen Ms. Hafiza Bano said that the tragic incident was a well-planned conspiracy by the Indian authorities to keep Kashmiri women out of the freedom struggle.
In the statements, they paid glowing tributes to the brave Kashmiri women for their active participation and sacrifices in the freedom movement and lamented that Kashmiri women were the main targets of the cowardly Indian forces and that they were not only killed, tortured and imprisoned but also raped. “Rape of women is used by Indian soldiers as a tool to punish, humiliate and intimidate Kashmiris into submission,” they added.
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They said that Kashmiri women, who are a vulnerable section of the society, were the worst victims of Indian aggression as shown by the horrific Kunan and Poshpora gang-rape incident.
The statement said the horrific incident was a big stain on the face of India’s so-called democracy and a state that uses rape as a weapon of war against Kashmiris.
Highlighting the pain and suffering of the rape victims, they said it was sickening to see how the Indian rulers and their henchmen in the territory were brazenly trying to cover up and hide the facts to save the blood-guilty who were directly involved in it. beastly act.
“The brutality meted out to Kashmiri women on the horrific night of February 23, 1991 has no place in human history, while even after 33 years, justice still eludes the victims,” the statement added. Hurriyat leaders and organizations have said that the use and abuse of power, harassment, humiliation and sexual abuse are among the dirtiest war tactics used by the Indian Army to suppress the legitimate struggle of Kashmiris for the right to self-determination.
