MIRPUR (Kashmir English): Jammu Kashmir National Front (JKNF) has demanded an independent probe at the international level into mass rape incidents committed by the Indian forces in the Indian Illegally-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).
In a statement issued here Saturday, the JKNF spokesman Muhammad Haseeb Wani said that Kashmiri women have been the worst victims of India’s state terrorism.
“Use and abuse of power, harassment and humiliation and sexual abuse are among the dirtiest war tactics the Indian army has been using to suppress Kashmiris’ legitimate struggle,” the spokesman said.
Rape as a weapon of war against Kashmiris
Referring to the dreadful incident of Kunan and Poshpora mass rape, he said that the horrific incident was a big blot on the face of Indian state that has been using rape as a weapon of war against Kashmiris.
Highlighting the pain and agony of the rape victims, he said that it was disgusting to see that the Indian rulers and their henchmen in the territory have shamelessly tried to cover up and conceal the facts to save the bloody culprits who were involved in this beastly act.
“The brutality Kashmiri women were subjected to on the dreadful night of February 23, 1991 finds no place in human history”, he said and added that despite the passage of over three decades, the victims could not be brought to justice.
Urging world human rights organizations to play their role, the front spokesman said it was high time that culprits involved in this gruesome act should be held accountable.
Pakistan has had been calling for ending the suffering of women and girls under Indian occupation. According to the government officials, the most egregious violations against women and girls occur in situations such as in Indian Occupied Kashmir, since one of objectives of the occupation is the subjugation of the occupied population, among whom women and girls are the most vulnerable.
This is the case in occupied Jammu and Kashmir where in 1990, over 100,000 Kashmiri men, women and children were killed.
