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Location | Jammu and Kashmir |
Date | Ongoing |
Target | Local female population |
Deaths | Thousands |
Injured | Thousands |
Perpetrators | Indian Army Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front |
Motive | Ethnic cleansing |
There have been allegations of rape and mass rape in Jammu and Kashmir against paramilitary and Indian regular armed forces. The Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front have been accused of ethnic cleansing by using murder, arson and rape as a weapon of war to drive out hundreds of thousands of Pandits from the region.
Indian security forces
In 1991 the 4th Rajputana Rifles Unit are alleged to have entered the village of Kunan Poshpora and raped between 30 and 100 women aged between 13 and 70. The Indian government carried out three inquiry's into the allegations and concluded that it had been a hoax. The International Commission of Jurists have stated that though the attacks had not been proven beyond a doubt, but there were credible evidence that it had happened. In 2011 the State Human Rights Commission(SHRC) has asked for the case to be reopened. And in 2009 one person was killed and up to 150 injured in protests over the alleged rape and murder of two women by the Central Reserve Police Force(CRPF).
Committed by terrorists
Groups such has Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen and Harkat ul-Ansar have all been accused of carrying out rapes.
References
- Margolis, Eric S. (2001). War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 81. ISBN 978-0415930628.
- Forsythe, David P. (2009). Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Oxford University Press. p. 306. ISBN 978-0195334029.
- Flint, Colin (2011). Introduction to Geopolitics (2nd ed.). Routledge. p. 192. ISBN 978-0415667739.
- Abdication of responsibility: the Commonwealth and human rights. Human Rights Watch. 1991. p. 14. ISBN 978-1564320476.
- Chatterji, Angana P. (2012). Ania Loomba, Ritty A. Lukose (ed.). South Asian Feminisms. Duke University Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-0822351795.
- Schofield, Victoria (2002). Kashmir in conflict: India, Pakistan and the unending war (2nd revised ed.). I.B.Tauris. p. 157. ISBN 978-1860648984.
- Ganai, Naseer (October 21, 2011). "Human rights panel asks Jammu and Kashmir govt to reopen army mass rape case". India Today.
- "One killed, 150 injured as protests continue in Jammu & Kashmir following rape and murder of two young women". Amnesty International.
- Warikoo, Kulbhushan (2010). Kulbhushan Warikoo (ed.). Religion and security in South and Central Asia (1st ed.). Routledge. p. 79. ISBN 978-0415575904.