Srinagar: As International Women’s Day is being observed worldwide today, the miseries and agonies of Kashmiri women continue unabated at the hands of Indian troops and police personnel in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
A report compiled by Raies Mir at Research Section of Kashmir Media Service revealed on the occasion of International Women’s Day that the miseries and victimization of Kashmiri women at the hands of Indian forces—including the army, Border Security Force, Central Reserve Police Force, Special Operations Group, police and other agencies—continue unabated in occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
In 1947, during the Jammu massacres, mass rapes were perpetrated by Dogra troops alongside Hindu fanatics in a brutal campaign against the territory’s Muslim population. Thousands of Muslim women were abducted, raped and subjected to unimaginable horrors, particularly in Jammu, Rajouri, Poonch and Kathua. These atrocities were not random acts of violence but a systematic attempt at ethnic cleansing, actively facilitated by the forces of the Dogra State under Maharaja Hari Singh.