BIJBEHARA: The Indian forces in their continued state terrorism in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) martyred five more Kashmiri youth in the Bijbehara area.
Police said on Sunday that the back-to-back clashes began late on Saturday after troops cordoned off two villages in southern IoK’s Shopian and Bijbehara areas on intelligence that pro-independence Kashmiri fighters were hiding there.
Three youths were killed and two soldiers sustained injuries in Shopian, Inspector General Vijay Kumar said troops had recovered a rifle and a pistol from the site.
One of the slain youth was a teenage boy who, according to officials, had joined the ranks of pro-independence fighters a few days earlier. Kumar said several attempts were made to seek the trapped fighters’ surrender but they had refused.
Indian forces killed two more Kashmiri fighters in the second clash in Bijbehara, Kumar said. At least 15 fighters, a policeman and an army soldier have been killed so far this month.
Earlier, a report issued by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service stated thousands of women are among the 95,507 Kashmiris martyred by Indian forces since 1989.
The report further revealed that more than eleven thousand women were raped, hundreds widowed while thousands lost their sons, husbands, fathers and brothers in custodial disappearance by Indian troops.
The report stated that thousands of school-going girls have been injured while many blinded by the pellets fired by Indian troops while many continue to face the psychological trauma of decades-long Indian brutalities.
