ISLAMABAD: Justice still eludes the Kunanposhpora gang-rape victims even after more than three decades have passed in India’s illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir.
According to the Kashmir Media Service, Indian troops gang-raped about 100 Kashmiri women of all ages from eight-year-old girls to eighty-year-old women during a cordon and search operation in the Kunanposhpora area of Kupwara district on the night of February 23, 1991. .
It has been 33 years since the Kunanposhpora gang-rape took place, but the victims are still awaiting justice while the forces involved in the heinous crime are walking free, a Kashmir Media Service report said today, marking thirty-three years since the tragic event. incident.
It stated that memories of the Kunanposhpora gang-rape are still vivid in the minds of the Kashmiri people.
The report pointed out that Indian soldiers raped, gang-raped and molested 11,263 women in the IIOJK from January 1989 to date. She said the impunity India has given its soldiers under draconian laws is the main reason for tragedies like Kunanposhpora.
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“Mass rape in Kunanposhpora is a clear example of brutality of Indian soldiers in IIOJK. It is a blemish on the so-called democratic face of India, which uses rape of women as an instrument of state terrorism in the IIOJK.
The Kunanposhpora tragedy is proof of the institutionalized violence used by India and the war crimes committed by Indian troops in Kashmir,” the statement said.
The report alleged that India was using rape as a military tactic to humiliate Kashmiris and break their resolve to break free from its tyranny.
It said pressure must be put on New Delhi to reopen the Kunanposhpora gang-rape case to bring the perpetrators to book. India must be held accountable for the heinous crimes of its troops against Kashmiris, she added.
