Kashmir protests after tests confirm women’s rape

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NEW DELHI: Security forces opened fire on protesters in Indian Kashmir on Monday, wounding at least seven people, including twocritically, in the worst clash since unrest broke out last week overthe deaths of two young women.

Locals claim the women were raped and killed by Indian soldiers and have staged angry demonstrations that have spread across the Kashmir valley.

Monday’s protests came a day after police released forensic reports confirming that the two women were raped. Police were investigating the rapes but no one had been charged. The cause of death had not yet been determined, the statement said.

Thousands protested Monday in the streets of Shopian, the women’s hometown, before police fired tear gas shells and live ammunition at the crowd. Scores were injured, includingat least seven with bullet wounds, said a police official who declinedto be named in keeping with department policy.

**The unrest erupted May 30 after the bodies of a 17-year-old girl and her 22-year-oldsister-in-law were found in a shallow stream in Shopian. Angry street protests have left one person dead and more than 400 injured while ageneral strike called by separatist groups has shuttered businesses,government offices and schools across the Kashmir Valley.

Humanrights groups and separatist leaders have long accused the Indianmilitary of using rape and sexual molestation to intimidate the localpopulation as it wages a 20-year battle against separatist insurgents.

India’s military and paramilitary forces have not responded to the allegations.**

The protests continued even after the state government ordered an independent judicial investigation into the deaths. Rights groups say such probes rarely yield results and are often intended only to calm public anger.
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Anger was also directed at the state’s top elected official, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who had said that the initial findings ‘point in a direction that does not suggest either rape or murder.’

Zia-u-din, a government employee, who uses justone name, called for him to quit and accused the government of ‘tryingto cover up the horrific incident.’

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Dawn has been reporting this incident since through out past week. Hopefully Indian military's oppression and cruelty in that region ends soon.

Timepass - June 2013
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How can someone be so sure that these rapes were carried out by security personnel ? Why can they not have been carried out by vested interests, who want to make the local population hate the security forces ??

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call the spade a spade, no need to point fingers and resort to conspiracy theories.

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Man.. Bacha jee. you just keep your head as deep in the sand as possible, leave this discussion to adults with actual sense… :rolleyes:

But let me explain this in a way that even a 10 year could understand. The India Army posted in Kashmir hate the Kashmiri people. These are evil men, who take advantage of the poor people, like evil men do… They dont care, because they know they will never be caught and hardly anything will be done to punish them.

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Probably not. When the people of India themseves arent willing to acknowledge these attrocities, and instead resort to burrying their heads in the sand till the issue goes away, these things will continue as always.

leave a Msg...
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  1. The local population already hate the security forces...they've done a spectacular job of earning that hatred entirely on their own.

  2. This case reeks of Indian involvement. If there was so much as so much as a passing thought that "militants" may have possibly visited the area in the month preceding the murders, Sonia Gandhi and her loyal puppet in Srinagar, Omar Abdullah would have blamed them already. Instead, the government has spent the past week pathetically attempting to cover-up...the CM has been insisting that rape and murder had already been ruled out, and the women had just accidentally drowned. Why would he be covering for "vested interests?"

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typical of oppressors. May Allah has mercy on kashmiris.

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what matters most is what locals think not you and me...

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Noooooo, when will you Pakis learn that Indians are never involved in terrorism, rapes, killings this is what you call a spade a big big spade.

Guys vs Gurlz
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Sad one,but it happens everywhere.I do not know why pakistanis are crying over it?It happened in India.........We have our own eeffective legal system to deal with it.

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^erm because pakistani consider kashmir disputed territory and hold indians answerable to what is happening there.

BArazilan Man got a Dog face by Plastic surgery
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this looks very much like action by Pakistan supported separatists doing this crime and then blaming the security forces. These separatists have been shut up by the elections and have not been able to import that many ammunition etc from across the border, so they resort to raping of innocent girls. Shame on them and I hope they and whoever else helping them get their deserved punishment

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so ironic to see people who mock conspiracy theories quickly revert to them when the shoe is on the other foot :rotato:

To women who would want a divorce just because husband takes another wife
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you can ask for equivocation while playing games for pleasure - if it is a cricket match fo rexample, between the two sides.
But it is not possible when it comes to fighting crime.

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And perhaps that is the reason the youths are lining up to join the security forces …

Changing times: Kashmiri youth rush to join Army

Sure there have been cases which have reeked of Indian involvement … here is one …

KNS :: Local :: Sep. 27, 07

Nazir Ahmed Mahajan was known for campaigning against the trade of liquor in valley and the tradesmen associated with liquor trade were hurt seriously by Mahajan’s vicious campaign against liquor trade in valley
Later on it was his son who was involved …

Son Kills Father With Hammer in Kashmir

On September 25, police in posh locality of Rajbagh in the summer capital Srinagar recovered a 25th body packed in a gunny bag. The body was later identified as that of businessman, Nazir Ahmad Mahajan of Samudarbagh, Srinagar

After the crushing defeat suffered by the sepratists in the elections, they needed some issue to stay alive …

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Yes the crushing defeat in the elections they boycotted. Well done on the Indian government.

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:omg:

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:hmmm: So was this woman also raped by Indian Security Forces ?

Luckily she was able to identify the terrorists, otherwise this would also have been blamed on Indian forces.