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Some rape cases other than Kunan and Posh:poor incident in 1990s where excesses (if not full) had to be acknowledged by the state, including a similar case of Maizzpoor massacre
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FIR (first information report) number: 45/90 Sadar. Dated 07-03-1990. CRPF personnel of 24 Bn under charge of sub-inspector Pillai, apart from loot of cash and jewellery attempt to outrage the modesty of women in old Chhanpoor area of Srinagar.
DGP Saksena’s enquiry confirms loot but deny rape and order compensation of 20,000 Indian rupees.
Lance Naik Anil Kumar Singh gets 3 months imprisonment for stealing a gold necklace. The officer, Lt. S S Chauhan, who confirmed to have stolen 8,800; cashiered, given 7 years jail
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The Himalayan mountains know best what happened on the cold dark night of February 23, 1991, deep in the Kashmir valley
Kunan and Poshpora in the India-administered Kashmir valley were raided that night by more than 300 personnel of the Indian army. ImageImageImageImage
#KunanPoshpora #KashmirisWillDecide @ROFLvalley @KashHistorypics @TheKashmirPress @SinceOttomans @_Aliwayz @Q_Meruem @SakhtAlfaaz @Malcolm_Returns @Osman__Ghazi @OpusOfAli @paansinghstoner @TazeenJunaid_ @Areebusmani8 @AreebaUmm @abdulhamid2211 @FreeAasifSultan
As many as 150 girls and women were raped that night; nearly 200 men were tortured. Barns became torture chambers. The next morning, as one can well imagine, was marked by immense horror and paralyzing pain.
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Indian armed forces raped and tortured dozens of women in their own homes in Kunan and Poshpora, two villages in the Kupwara district in Kashmir. Twenty nine years later, the victims are still fighting for justice.

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groundxero.in/2020/02/25/rem…
Correction: Indian armed forces raped and tortured *hundreds* of women *and children* in their own homes, in #KunanPoshpora

thepolisproject.com/it-was-not-rap…
Militaries rape. All militaries, everywhere. No exceptions. Military training is the brutal and systematic unlearning of consent, respect, and body sovereignty. Military culture is rape culture on steroids. Fantasies about "disciplined" armed forces are military propaganda.
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