We've now a name. That should help. Perhaps we can assist the linked paper you've provided with basic spelling as well- "riffles". Journalists that can't spell are like mathematicians that can't add. Little credibility.
There may be a rape here or not. There's without question provocation though. Nobody but the accused and the girl really know. Lot of folks quick to jump on bandwagons though.
Guess that I shouldn't be surprised.
Thanks for the elaboration.
I know you just joined us in 2007, but there's been allegations of rape by Indian soldiers in Kashmir since the 40's mate. Piles and piles of harrowing accounts. They employ fear tactics to subdue unruly populations not willing to bend to Indian authority, for instance shooting live rounds into protest crowds, suffocating leadership during times of voting and gang rapes.
BBC News | SOUTH ASIA | Kashmir troops held after rape
"The most common torture methods are severe beatings, sometimes while the victim is hung upside down, and electric shocks. People have also been crushed with heavy rollers, burned, stabbed with sharp instruments, and had objects such as chilies or thick sticks forced into their rectums. Sexual mutilation has been reported".
(Amnesty International, March 1992)
"The worst outrages by the CRPF (Central Reserve Police Force) have been frequent gang rapes of all women in Muslim villages, followed by the execution of the men".
(Eric Margolis, The Ottawa Citizen, December 8, 1991)
"Young girls were now being raped systematically by entire (Indian) army units rather than by a single soldier as before. Girls are taken to soldier's camps and held naked in their tents for days on end. Many never return home....Women are strung up naked from trees and their breast lacerated with knives, as the (Indian) soldiers tell them that their breast will never give milk again to a newborn militant. Women are raped in front of their husbands and children, or paraded naked through villages and beaten on the breasts."
(The Independent, September 18, 1990)
"While army troops dragged men from their homes for questioning in the border town of Kunan Pushpura, scores of women say they were raped by soldiers....a pregnant Kashmiri woman, who was raped and kicked, gave birth to a son with a broken arm."
(Melinda Liuin, Newsweek, June 24, 1991)
[Anthony Wood and Ron MaCullagh of the Sundav Observer (June 02, 1992) estimated that over 500 Indian army men were involved in this orgy of rape and plunder in Kunan Pushpura.]
Rape and torture is well known official policy in Indian held Kashmir, I'm sorry it shocks you.
