1993 bajbahara 51 kashmiri has been killed by indian army kashmiri and kashmiri people cant be frinds of india.... a 13 years old boy amongst those 51 was trying to escape but a army person shoots on his legs and drag him to the dead bodies and shooted in his head locals wr said in an YouTube video his brain was out and peoples wr afraid to take him to is grave bcoz his brain wr all around his head October 22,1993; When BSF Men ‘Butchered 51′ Protestors Twenty-one years have expired and the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) personnel from 74thBattalion allegedly responsible for murdering scores of innocent and peaceful protesters in Bijbehara town of South Kashmir’s Islamabad district have not been brought to book and the ‘killers’ are still roaming free. Locals lament that justice has been eluding the families of the victims.Amnesty International reported that at least 51 people died and 200 were wounded on 22 October1993, while the UN Refugee Agency quoting Indian newspapers reported 35 persons were killed and about 76 wounded. Locals put the toll to 51 including 25 students. According to eyewitnesses, among the injured many were handicapped for life.“Some militants who in common parlance those days were known as ‘Mujhadeen’ were holed up in Srinagar’s Hazratbal shrine while Indian troopers had laid a siege of the shrine to apprehend those militants,” an eyewitness told CNS adding that against this ‘siege’ October 22, 1993, hundreds of people mostly students soon after Friday Congregational prayers assembled in Bijbehara and started peaceful protest against this ‘siege’.“All but 15000 people assembled in the courtyard of Jamia Masjid Bijbehara, and a procession was taken out, which marched through various streets.As the peaceful march reached near Goriwan locality, BSF personnel blocked the road and did not allow the protesters to proceed ahead. As the anti-India slogans reverberated in the air, the BSFmen present there fired indiscriminately on the unarmed protesters, killing at least 40 persons on spot and injuring more than 200 others,” the eyewitness said.Another local who at that time was just 17 said that BSF personnel resorted to indiscriminate firing for more than 10 minutes and they targeted the protesters directly. He said that those people were also targeted and shot at who had come forward to carry the dead and injured. “The unbridled BSF personnel seemed to drunk with pride and power and they wasted no time to targeteveryone who came in their way,” he said adding that the height of repression was that no ambulances or medical staff was allowed access to the injured persons and were forcibly stopped by the ‘killers’.The locals said that among the dead was a Kashmiri Pandit boy whose mother died soon after unable to bear the shock of losing her only son at the hands of BSF personnel.The International news reports that appeared soon after the massacre quoted doctors as sayingthat most of the people could have been saved had the ambulances and medical aid been allowed to reach the victims.Recounting their horror, the witnesses who survived this massacre said that the BSF men even directly fired upon those who had managed to shift some of the injured to nearby hospital. “It was doomsday for the people. The families who lost their loved ones shattered while some of themwent into depression. BSF men from 74th Battalion did not spare an 11 year old boy and killed him mercilessly in the middle of the road when he tried to move to a safer place,” the eyewitnesses told CNS.Soon after the massacre, the official version claimed that BSF personnel fired in self-defense as a group of armed militants who according to official version were part of the procession, a claim refuted by the eyewitnesses and the HumanRights Organizations. The eyewitnesses while accusing Indian Media said few media houses gave prominent space to the official version of themassacre and left no stone-unturned to twist the facts. “Many innocent dead we
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