30/12/2023
MUZAFFARABAD: In a grim reminder of the agonies endured by Kashmiris in the 1990s, the recent tragic killings of three civilians in Indian army’s custody in the Poonch region of Jammu and Kashmir, allegedly in retaliation to deaths of four Indian soldiers in an ambush laid by militants, has once again torn open the wounds of the past.
Khan told the Kashmir Times, “We left because staying there was no longer safe,” adding that “The Indian army would frequently carry out cordon and search operations on the pretext of searching for militants, both day and night.”
“Indian soldiers would come in hundreds during the night and cordon their village when most people would be in their sleep. “They would order men, women, children, and the elderly to come out and be lined up separately. The assaults on men and women, children, and the elderly were brutal—using gun butts, kicks, fists, and sticks, often in front of their children,” Basharat Khan said.
Nosheen Khawaja MUZAFFARABAD: In a grim reminder of the agonies endured by Kashmiris in the 1990s, the recent tragic killings of three civilians in Indian army’s custody in the Poonch region of Jammu and Kashmir, allegedly in retaliation to deaths of four Indian soldiers in an ambush laid by milit...