As the world is observing the International Women’s Day, today, miseries and victimization of the Kashmiri women at the hands of Indian troops, police and agencies continue unabated in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
According to a report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of the World Women’s Day, thousands of women are among 96,290 people of IIOJK, who have been martyred by the Indian forces’ personnel since January 1989 till date. At least, 685 women have been martyred by the troops since January 2001.
The report pointed out that the unabated Indian state terrorism rendered 22,973 women widowed. The occupation forces’ personnel molested/disgraced 11,263 women. It said that Kunanposhpora mass rape and Shopian double-rape-and murder of 17-year-old Aasiya Jan and her sister-in-law Neelofar Jan as well as gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl, Aasifa Bano, of Kathua are glaring examples of Indian troops brutalities against women in IIOJK.
The report said that thousands of women lost their sons, husbands, fathers and brothers in the occupied territory who were subjected to custodial disappearance by the Indian troops. As per the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, more than 8,000 Kashmiris went missing in custody during the past 35 years, it added.
The report revealed that thousands of school boys and girls were also injured by the pellets fired by Indian troops and police personnel while over a hundred including 19-month-old Heeba Jan, 2-year-old Nusrat Jan, Ulfat Hameed (17), Insha Mushtaq, Ifrah Shakoor (17), Shakeela Bano,—KMS
