KASHMIR: As the world observed International Women’s Day, the miseries and victimization of women in Occupied Kashmir continue unabated at the hands of Indian forces.
In the wake of International Women’s Day, 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.
Similarly, over a dozen women including Hurriyat leaders, Aasiya Andrabi, Fehmeeda Sofi, Naheeda Nasreen and Insha Tariq Shah face illegal detention inside Kashmiri jails.
The Kashmiris people urged the international community to take notice of atrocities. They said that seven decades had passed and the dispute of Kashmir remained unresolved, adding, ruthless killings, pellet injuries to children and infants, rapes and torture; Indian atrocities in Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir continued unabated.
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