‘Our children are now asking us, were you subjected to assault’, said Sara Begum, one of the 40 women who was allegedly gang-raped by 4 Rajputana Rifles army in the night of Feb 23, 1991 at Kunan Poshpora village of north Kashmir’s Kupwara district. After 22 yrs and 4 months of the incident, Sara and other rape victims of Kunan Poshpora were speaking for the first time on Saturday in a public meeting in Srinagar organized by coalition of civil society (CCS) of Kashmir. “We have come from Kunan Poshpora to seek justice,” Sara said. “Everybody has failed us in all these years.” Sara recounts that in the fateful night at approximately 11:00 pm soldiers from the 4 Rajputana Rifles cordoned off the village to conduct a search operation. “The soldiers raped a large number of village women overnight till 9:00 am the next day,” she said in a sobbing tone. “Five among the raped women are already dead.”
Posted on: Sat, 22 Jun 2013 17:04:28 +0000
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