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Kashmir Women In Constant Fear, Lack Of Safety And Life Security
17 June 2009
In occupied Kashmir, Hameeda Nayeem, an English teacher in Kashmir University has said that in rest of the world women empowerment has been achieved to a considerable extent, Kashmir is yet to grant its women the safety and life security they deserve. Leaving their empowerment aside they do not even have safety to move out independently. Hameeda Nayeem told media men in Srinagar that incidents like Shopain and Tangmarg of molestation have continued to occur during the last 19 years. Hameeda Nayeem said, "Last so many years have brought so much insecurity to women. Personnel of Indian Army, SOG, CRPF and other renegades have played havoc with the lives of Kashmiri women. Our dignity has been trampled and they have used rape as a war weapon. In border areas women are more vulnerable and many girls have dropped from schools to protect their chastity. They prefer illiteracy to insecurity." It is not something new that women in the valley have become victim to such heinous crimes. Eighteen years back the horrible Kunan-Poshpora incident came to light. The incident shocked not only the whole Valley but the whole world was traumatised to see such incidents occurring in the world history. It was on February 23, 1991 when the soldiers while launching a cordon and search operation in Kunan-Poshpora, one of the remote villages in Kupwara district; gang raped the women folk of this village. Even till now the figures of this incident are not clear. The intensity of the crime was so huge that on March 17, Mufti Baha-ud-Din Farooqi the then Chief Justice of Jammu and Kashmir High Court who led a fact finding mission to Kunan-Poshpora over the course of his investigations, came to know that all the 53 women he interviewed admitted to have been raped by the Indian troops. Like this event there are a number of other rape cases in the valley, which went unreported because of the social taboo, attached to it. Rape and then murder of these innocent women has become an everyday affair in the valley. A leading human rights activist, Khurram Parvez in a statement said, "About 95 percent rape cases in the valley go unreported. Hundreds of such cases are there which have gone unnoticed." » Kashmiris asked to make resistance programme a success Meanwhile, the forum patronized by senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani and Tehreek-i-Hurriyet Jammu and Kashmir have appealed the people of Kashmir to make the resistance programmes a success. The spokesman of the forum, in a statement issued in Srinagar after a meeting convened at an undisclosed location, said that most of the Hurriyet leadership was under detention so could not participate in the programs directly. The statement said that Hurriyet members had emphasised that the people should understand the essence of such programs and be ready to sacrifice in whatever way every individual of the nation can. They also cautioned the people to be aware of the rumourmongers and act cautiously at this crucial juncture. On the other hand, supporting the call of the forum, Tehreek-i-Hurriyet Jammu and Kashmir led by Syed Ali Gilani, in a statement issued in Srinagar, appealed Kashmiris to follow the peaceful protest program. The statement condemned the continued arrest of the resistance leaders. It said that the continued detention of Syed Ali Gilani depicted frustration and cowardice of the puppet authorities. It read that the incidents like Shopian were eye opener for the international community and it would no more be tolerated by the people. »
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