More Than 300 Women Raped in a Single Night By Indian Army in Kashmir.

‘Rape’ is considered a taboo in our society. But mass rapes and public gang rapes are a particularly powerful weapon to use against communities and whole villages in order to terrorize them. There are many examples and testimonies of women being raped in groups by the Indian Occupational Forces in Kashmir. Rape is being used as a weapon of war. Asia Watch in its report on “rapes in Kashmir” In 1993 listed six documented cases of gang rape committed by forces.

On the dark night of February 23, 1991, more than 300 personnel Indian occupational forces raided in the twin villages of kupwara district KUNAN and POSHPORA of Kashmir.

As many as 150 girls and women from the age group of 18-75 were raped that night and around 200 men were tortured. This manifests the violence of enslavement with Indian army holding down Kashmir and its people, against their will and by force.

Mass rape is not the only humiliation for women but also for the villagers.                                         

A researcher, pondered after one of her visits to the twin villages:

What was it like, I found myself imagining, to be squatting in your own snowy barnyard, drowning in your tin bucket, broken and blubbering on your hard granary floor, blinded by chilies from your own store? Or most unimaginably of all, to be Abdul Wani. 

To return from an overnight business trip to Srinagar and find your front door broken, your two sons in bed electrocuted, your wife and three daughters raped, and your family’s barn turned into the village torture chamber?

India being a free country.  There are some fundamental rights guaranteed to all. Indian armed forces to have their own sets of freedom which includes freedom to kill, to maim, to torture, to rape under draconian law, called as "lawless laws". and those barbaric beasts are hiding under those laws.

Kashmiris have some freedoms too. Although the freedom of speech may be curtailed but we still have the freedom to remain silent, to never raise our voice, to accept India’s subjugation. If you raise your voice you may get punished but the state perpetrators of crime will remain free.