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Mar 24

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International day for the right to the truth concerning gross HRWs and for the dignity of victums.

The Indian security forces are also accused of many massacres. Some of them include:
Gawakadal massacre: On 21 January 1990,
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51 civilians were killed by CRPF troopers during protests against earlier raids in which wanton arrests and molestation of women were conducted by CRPF troops.
Handwara massacre: On 25 January 1990, two BSF patrolling parties in Handwara indiscriminately fired at
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peaceful protesters and killed 25 people. Many people were injured.
Zakoora and Tengpora massacre: Indian forces killed 33 protesters and injured 47 on 1 March 1990 at Zakoora Crossing and Tengpora Bypass Road in Srinagar.
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Mar 20

Oldest Mosque in India : Barwada mosque in Ghogha ,Gujarat

The Qibla is towards Jerusalem. This reflects the fact that this mosque must have been erected much before Prophet's (PBUH) declaration that direction to Kaaba be treated as qibla.
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Barwada means non-locals or foreigners.The 15 x 40 ft mosque is located in the ancient port town of Ghogha.Part of Bhavnagar district, Ghogha is situated on the mid-western bank of the Gulf of Khambhat, a commercial port for centuries
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Islam came to India much before than it is believed to have moved in with traders who sailed to coastal belts. The first mosque is presumed to have been built in India well before the Prophet migrated to Madina
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Mar 20

Our Freedom Icon always stands with sikh community.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani (on 19 June, 2012) demanded that the Chittisinghpura massacre should be probed into by some international institution and those involved in it should be punished.
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“The innocent members of Sikh community were brutally killed at the time when the then US president was visiting New Delhi. The massacre was carried out to mislead the international community about the Kashmir movement and link it with terrorism,”
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Syed Ali Shah Geelani ( R.A) is reported to have said, while interacting with a delegation of Sikhs from Punjab that visited his Hyderpora residence.
Syed Geelani, according to Hurriyat statement, said the Kashmir was not any communal war but an issue of broken promises.
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Mar 15

Article: In Kashmir, Indian bulldozers are now carrying out settler-colonial policy.

Bricks are falling amid a cloud of dust onto the snow-covered roads. Wailing can be heard in the background. Bulldozers are moving in, aiming to bury a long struggle for freedom.
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The scenes might be akin to the Israeli demolition of Palestinian homes, but this time we are witnessing India’s settler-colonial policy in Kashmir.

Videos emerge from Kashmir each day, showing bulldozers ploughing through residential and non-residential areas,
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demolishing structures that the administration claim to have been built illegally by encroaching on “state land”.

Each day brings new stories about how much land has been “reclaimed” by the state.

India’s continual anxiety over the Kashmiris’
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Mar 14

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India is using desecration of Kashmiri women as a weapon of war
Kashmiri women & the Indian military rule:
Thousands of women in Kashmir have become a story of helplessness and cruelty.
Shazia kashmiri woman said that the CRPF officer was kissing her inside
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The vehicle and asking her to perform oral sex on him." When I refused, he exposed my private parts and threw his body on me.
He started slapping me, so many times I fainted. I don't know what happened but when i opened my eyes i found my self beside my mother,
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Surrounded by policeman who gave me water and sheet to cover by body, " Shazia said.
Rashid said that when he recovered from unconsciousness, he saw himself in a dark room, anked and facing a camera." They asked me number of questions to which I don't know how to react.
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Mar 14

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‘modi’s repressive media policies destroying kashmiri journalism’*

The owner of a sealed newspaper in indian-occupied kashmir says prime minister narendra modi’s repressive media policies are destroying kashmiri journalism,
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intimidating media outlets into serving as government mouthpieces and creating an information vacuum in our region of about 13 million people, as india descends into authoritarianism.

anuradha bhasin, executive editor of the kashmir times, whose offices in srinagar were
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sealed by the occupation authorities three years ago, in an opinion piece published in the new york times on saturday, wrote that modi was taking steps that could replicate this disturbing model on a national scale.

“his hindu-chauvinist movement,
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