India is using rape of women as a weapon of war in IIOJK: Kashmiri leader

According to reports, leaders of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference in Indian Illegally-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) have lamented that India has used the rape of Kashmiri women as a weapon of war to humiliate Kashmiris and suppress their struggle for independence.

Hurriyat leaders strongly condemned the 1991 Kannaposhpura gang rape, calling it the most tragic event in the history of Jammu and Kashmir. They demanded an impartial inquiry into all such incidents so that the Indian soldiers involved could be punished. It is pertinent to note that about 100 women were gang-raped by Indian troops during a siege and search operation in the Kanan Poshpora area of Kupwara district on the night of February 23, 1991.

Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar, the vice-chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, said in a statement issued in Srinagar that the mass rape by Indian troops at Kanan Poshpora was a shameful act that should be condemned by all human beings around the world. “The perpetrators of such incidents deserve the death penalty,” he said, adding that the people of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir have lost faith in the Indian judiciary and they do not expect justice in such tragic incidents.

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Ghulam Ahmad Gulzar expressed solidarity with all the victims of gang rape and reiterated his commitment to bring the ongoing resistance movement of Kashmiris to its logical conclusion. He called on the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and the International Criminal Court (ICC) to take action against India for serious crimes against humanity, such as gang rape, and to bring the perpetrators to justice as soon as possible.

Maulvi Bashir Ahmad Irfani, leader of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, in a statement in Srinagar, lamented that the victims of the Kanan Poshpora tragedy had not been provided justice despite the passage of more than three decades.

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In a statement issued in Srinagar, Hurriyat leader Muhammad Yusuf Naqash said that the mass rape of Kanan Poshpura was a deliberate conspiracy hatched by the Indian authorities to keep Kashmiri women away from the independence movement. All-Party Hurriyat Conference leader Zamruda Habib in a statement in Srinagar expressed deep sorrow over the tragic incident and demanded reopening of the Kanan Poshpora gangrape case.