Torture, harassment and atrocities committed by the Indian armed forces and its intelligence agencies in Kashmir are not something new to hear about. There have been thousands of such human rights and violent inhuman cases in which innocent people including women, girls, children and aged persons of Kashmir were brutally tortured, harassed , killed and handicapped by the Indian forces and police personnel. Many victims of the brutal torture and atrocities couldn’t survive and died but others who somehow managed to survive are still living with the scars in this conflict zone. The scars which haunt them every passing day and which they are forced to live with.
Abdul Rashid Parray a liberation activist from Sopore is one among victims of unresolved Kashmir who was arrested in March 1992 by Indian army in Tangmarg Bamroo during clash with Indian forces. The other twelve colleagues of Rashid died in the clash while Rashid the lone survivor who was arrested brutally tortured by men in uniform in its Army camp in March 1992.
Abdul Rashid say’s that the Indian troops chopped his fingers in their Army camp by blades. He remembers what the troops had said when they were chopping of his fingers. “Now you will never use a gun and pull a trigger.”’
In north Kashmir’s 50 villages only, 9000 people, in a population of 80,000 males, were subjected to various forms of torture, reports a survey by CSS.