Srinagar, February 22 (KNO) : Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Thursday reiterated its demand for impartial investigation into the Kunan Poshapora mass rape in 1991. THK spokesman in a statement today, urged the United Nations to initiate investigation through its War Crimes Tribunal (WCT) and help declare the perpetrators as criminals of war. “50 women including elderly and minors were sexually assaulted on the intervening night of 23rd and 24th February,1991. The mass rape in Kunan Poshapora was not the first incident of its kind but humiliation of women folk by Indian forces in state continues for the last 27 years.
Delhi government did not take any notice of it. Instead, it encourages its armed personnel to indulge in such cases and used it (rape) as a weapon of war,” the statement said. “The government forces as well as other state institutions have no constitutional or legal obligation or binding and nor are they accountable for their wrongdoings of armed forces. The state government has till date failed to do anything substantial in this regard. Actually, it is New Delhi which runs the affairs in Jammu and Kashmir and they are least bothered about such inhuman incidents,” the spokesman said.
“It is the moral duty of international community to investigate these cases. Indian forces are involved in war crimes as were Serbs in Bosnia and in Kosovo,” he added.(KNO)
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