2,296 women martyred, 10,018 molested in Kashmir since 1989

Srinagar, November 25: In  Kashmir, 2,296 women were among 93,709 civilians martyred during the last 22 years.

According to a report released by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service, today, on the occasion of “International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women”, Indian troops molested 10,018 women during this period. It maintained that Kashmiri women had been the worst victims of the harrowing conflict, which rendered 22,762 women widowed since 1989.

The report deplored that the troops had been routinely involved in sexual harassment of Kashmiri women to suppress the ongoing liberation struggle. It further pointed out that although men had been subjected to enforced disappearances, but women were adversely affected because of being related to the disappeared persons as mothers, wives, sisters and daughters.

The report said, women constitute a considerable number of mental patients, which is well over one hundred thousand, due to the violence perpetrated by India police and troops in the occupied territory.