Understanding Sexual Warfare in Kashmir: Prevalence, Consequences

[Zibago]

If the Indians were so bad, Kashmiri population wouldn't have multiplied by a factor of 10 over the decades. Baluch unlike any kashmiri have become asylum seekers in the thousands, and thousands more are queuing up.

https://defence.pk/threads/interviews-of-kashmir-refugees-in-azad-kashmir.374829/
40,000 refugees in Azad Kashmir alone

 

[unbiasedopinion]

Joseph English (’17) is a Global Affairs major in Davenport College

Source: https://defence.pk/threads/understa...prevalence-consequences.445402/#ixzz4I2CvS52b???

Does this indicate age of author?

 

[M. Sarmad]

Joseph English (’17) is a Global Affairs major in Davenport College

Source: https://defence.pk/threads/understa...prevalence-consequences.445402/#ixzz4I2CvS52b???

Does this indicate age of author?

Even if it does, it only proves that a 17 years old sophomore is much more smarter and knowledgeable than the entire Indian Platoon (led by a dotard professional) we have here on PDF.

 

[AugenBlick]

Did this report include the gang rapes of Kashmiri Pandit women ? If not then it's another islamist publication. Worthy for the dustbin.

 

[Hellfire]

Your post was not only off-topic, it was a deliberate attempt to derail this thread and turn it into a troll fest.

It was as much as an attempt as was yours in my thread on Autonomy to Kashmir. I did warn this has makings of a troll fest. Posted as such to you yesterday. Now it is interesting to note your position on the topic. Please do prove that it is my attempt to derail, when I have clearly warned the potential since yesterday and today also. I have not tagged anyone, you have!

Since Mar 2009 I have been a member here, my posts and an investigation thereof will be an indicative of the veracity of your accusation as above. I don't troll without pointing am trolling. Great!

Rest of your contention, I have said incidents have taken place, justice has been meted out where issues have been found valid. I have also placed in front of you the procedure in broad terms how the cordon and search is conducted, and that, is out of my own personal experience. A number of times.

I have also drawn your attention, rationally, to use of women and children as shields by militants in valley. Again, out of my own experiences in valley.

But you, sir, have crossed into an arena wherein two highly professional forces, will be reduced to being labelled rapists.

I am yet to find majority of your protagonists here give me an answer on wheter Pakistan wants azadi for Kashmiris or integrate it with Pakistan. And everyday the same posters, who I direct my query to, continue with same rants.

Another attempt at obfuscating facts. You have excelled at it.

@WAJsal this is why I never made an attempt to answer you the other day and instead posted a series of questions to you. There is simply a lack of ability to accept my counters as being only counters by anyone other than you. The counter to my counter, it sems, is a negative rating, wherein my post was merely an attempt to show that opinions of third parties can be posted by either side and the professional forces of the two nations can be vilified accordingly.

On numerous occassions I have joined efforts of @Joe Shearer @PARIKRAMA and others to counter posts of hatred against militants, who are fighting for what they believe in. Yet, I am yet to find a similar attempt to prevent painting with broad strokes when it comes to Indian actions.

I bet if I post a thread titled Rape of East Pakistan: A Military Policy of Pakistan Army? and ran it, not only will I be reddened to a level that will place the Chinese Communist Party in a place where they will have to play catch up with me or be declared pale, but will also ensure a closure in short time and a permanent ban.


A narration for you.

Oct 2010. A Gurjar grazing his herd in Gurez region and residing in Ghishat Nar in Shamshabari Ridge overlooking Bandipore and adjacent to Razdhan Pass, approached a MOST of 2 RR to inform of 02 x militants hiding in the forest adjacent to Kunjal Gali. The 02 militants were raping his daughter and he approached the army to seek help.

Result both killed by 2 RR MOST.

I can post numerous occassions where lust has resulted in rapes by militants in Lolab valley, which forced the ultimate expulsion of hard core support from a large area of Sopore, which was, in 90s the heart of insugency. The threat of reprisals and threat of rape has forced men and women to shelter the said terrorists/militants.

No insurgency is ever bereft of such instances or incidents. The rule of any counter insurgency is who terrorises most, controls most. Period.

The advantage is of sympathisers of militants blending in the local population, the threat of immediate retribution against any local seemingly helping Indian Forces.

That is terrorism.

If one delves into realm of counter insurgency ops, one will understand the logic I speak of.

I will take any negatives now, but lies and biased posts will be challenged.

@Azlan Haider your thread got derailed in post #2. Take a look. Its not I who has done it!

 

[Pulsar]

Nothing surprising when India rapes women and girls in mainland India from Delhi to Mumbai daily....this type of dirty flithy work is expected of pervert and desperate Indian forces and indian govt.

No wonder why Delhi is officially called the Rape capital of the world. Indians worked hard to achieve this title as so this paper above proves it. What a disgusting shame !!

No rapes in Pakistan? Have you looked in the mirror before spewing bilge and baloney? And poor Pakistani girls, they need two witnesses to prove that they've been raped!! That's not even funny! It's tragic. Here's more to put you wise on what's happening within from your own source, not mine or the Times of India, but DAWN.....Read it. You guys aren't the paragons of virtue by any stretch of imagination.

Pakistan among 10 worst countries regarding rape cases

http://www.dawn.com/news/1232426

 

[unbiasedopinion]

Even if it does, it only proves that a 17 years old sophomore is much more smarter and knowledgeable than the entire Indian Platoon (led by a dotard professional) we have here on PDF.

because it suits your own agenda..Remember malala who is recognized by world community and thrashed everyday by Paksitan brigade on PDF.

 

[M. Sarmad]

because it suits your own agenda..Remember malala who is recognized by world community and thrashed everyday by Paksitan brigade on PDF.

It is a well-referenced paper. Sources and Links have been provided. It doesn't matter who has written it or who has posted it here. Will you please try to respond to the content of the Paper ?

 

[Nilgiri]

It was as much as an attempt as was yours in my thread on Autonomy to Kashmir. I did warn this has makings of a troll fest. Posted as such to you yesterday. Now it is interesting to note your position on the topic. Please do prove that it is my attempt to derail, when I have clearly warned the potential since yesterday and today also. I have not tagged anyone, you have!

Since Mar 2009 I have been a member here, my posts and an investigation thereof will be an indicative of the veracity of your accusation as above. I don't troll without pointing am trolling. Great!

Rest of your contention, I have said incidents have taken place, justice has been meted out where issues have been found valid. I have also placed in front of you the procedure in broad terms how the cordon and search is conducted, and that, is out of my own personal experience. A number of times.

I have also drawn your attention, rationally, to use of women and children as shields by militants in valley. Again, out of my own experiences in valley.

But you, sir, have crossed into an arena wherein two highly professional forces, will be reduced to being labelled rapists.

I am yet to find majority of your protagonists here give me an answer on wheter Pakistan wants azadi for Kashmiris or integrate it with Pakistan. And everyday the same posters, who I direct my query to, continue with same rants.

Another attempt at obfuscating facts. You have excelled at it.

@WAJsal this is why I never made an attempt to answer you the other day and instead posted a series of questions to you. There is simply a lack of ability to accept my counters as being only counters by anyone other than you. The counter to my counter, it sems, is a negative rating, wherein my post was merely an attempt to show that opinions of third parties can be posted by either side and the professional forces of the two nations can be vilified accordingly.

On numerous occassions I have joined efforts of @Joe Shearer and others to counter posts of hatred against militants, who are fighting for what they believe in. Yet, I am yet to find a similar attempt to prevent painting with broad strokes when it comes to Indian actions.

I bet if I post a thread titled Rape of East Pakistan: A Military Policy of Pakistan Army? and ran it, not only will I be reddened to a level that will place the Chinese Communist Party in a place where they will have to play catch up with me or be declared pale, but will also ensure a closure in short time and a permanent ban.


A narration for you.

Oct 2010. A Gurjar grazing his herd in Gurez region and residing in Ghishat Nar in Shamshabari Ridge overlooking Bandipore and adjacent to Razdhan Pass, approached a MOST of 2 RR to inform of 02 x militants hiding in the forest adjacent to Kunjal Gali. The 02 militants were raping his daughter and he approached the army to seek help.

Result both killed by 2 RR MOST.

I can post numerous occassions where lust has resulted in rapes by militants in Lolab valley, which forced the ultimate expulsion of hard core support from a large area of Sopore, which was, in 90s the heart of insugency. The threat of reprisals and threat of rape has forced men and women to shelter the said terrorists/militants.

No insurgency is ever bereft of such instances or incidents. The rule of any counter insurgency is who terrorises most, controls most. Period.

The advantage is of sympathisers of militants blending in the local population, the threat of immediate retribution against any local seemingly helping Indian Forces.

That is terrorism.

If one delves into realm of counter insurgency ops, one will understand the logic I speak of.

I will take any negatives now, but lies and biased posts will be challenged.

Great post my friend.

 

[unbiasedopinion]

It is a well-referenced paper. Sources and Links have been provided. It doesn't matter who has written it or who has posted it here. Will you please try to respond to the content of the Paper ?

Sorry, but I don't agree with the author credibility, and does free me from replying to the content. For me the author is underage and has never visited any place personally. She or he is just copying pasting from different pieces to suit her/his topic of article. Until I am sure the author has done some real ground work to support the claim, this is all but piece of imagination to earn the brownie points.

 

[M. Sarmad]

Sorry, but I don't agree with the author credibility, and does free me from replying to the content. For me the author is underage and has never visited any place personally. She or he is just copying pasting from different pieces to suit her/his topic of article. Until I am sure the author has done some real ground work to support the claim, this is all but piece of imagination to earn the brownie points.

Feel free NOT to respond.....

I am really surprised though. No Indian (here) so far has tried to challenge the content of the article.

I have a lot more to post on this topic. I can wait

 

[Indika]

https://www.hrw.org/legacy/about/projects/womrep/General-46.htm
https://www.hrw.org/legacy/about/projects/womrep/General-46.htm
Rape by Militant Groups

The increase in reports of rape by militant groups in Kashmir has coincided with the rise in other violent crimes against civilians by these groups. Extremist militant groups seeking to enforce an "Islamic" code of behavior have launched other violent attacks on women.

While as early as 1990 there were reported threats to women, most frequently by groups reportedly seeking to enforce their interpretation of "Islamic" culture in Kashmir, reports of rape by militant groups were rare in the conflict's early years. A July 1990 report cited frequent threats to women by one group, "warning the women that severe action will be taken if they do not maintain purdah (or wear a burqa, clothing which entirely conceals the body)."131 Such threats have continued, and women who have challenged the militants have been attacked. On May 13, 1993, members of the women's militant organization, Dukhtaran-e-Millat (Daughters of the Nation) issued warnings to women in Srinagar not to come outside without wearing burqas. The militants reportedly sprayed paint on women who defied the order, such that four students were hospitalized with eye injuries from the paint.132

In some cases, women have been raped and then killed after being abducted by rival militant groups and held as hostages for their male relatives. In other cases, members of armed militant groups have abducted a woman after threatening to shoot the rest of the family unless she is handed over to a militant leader. The fact that local people sometimes refer to these abductions and rapes as "forced marriages" gives some indication of the social ostracism suffered by rape victims and the code of silence—combined with fear—that prevents people from openly condemning such abuses by militant groups.

Some incidents of rape by militants appear to have been motivated by the fact that the victims or their families are accused of being informers or of being opposed to the militants or supporters of rival militant groups. One of the earliest such cases involved a staff nurse at the Saura Medical Institute, Sarla Bhat, twenty-seven, who was kidnapped from the institute on April 14, 1990. Her body was found four days later. A note found near the body stated that the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) took responsibility for the killing and accused Bhat of informing the security forces about the presence of a number of wounded militants in the hospital.133 The post-mortem report concluded that she had been raped before she was shot dead.

The fear of rape has reportedly been a factor in the flight of Muslim families from Kashmir. However, cases of rape by militant groups are difficult to investigate because most Kashmiris are reluctant to discuss abuses by the militants out of fear of reprisal. According to one report, the increasing number of rapes has led to an increase in abortions in Kashmir, resulting in one case in the murder of a doctor who complained about having to perform them. Militants from the Hezb-ul Mujahidin and Al Jehad reportedly accused the doctor of being an informer.134

A 1992 case of rape and murder by militants attracted publicity in part because the incident provoked street protests condemning the militants for the crimes. The incident involved the family of a retired truck driver named Sohanlal, sixty, who lived in Nai Sadak, Kralkhud. At about 8:30 p.m. on March 30, 1992, armed militants entered Sohanlal's home. According to his son, the men demanded food and shelter. The family complied. After about two hours, Sohanlal and his wife, Bimla, heard their daughter, Archana, cryingfor help from a room on the ground floor of the house. When they reached the room, the militants shot Sohanlal, killing him instantly. The bodies of the two women were discovered in the street outside the house. According to the autopsy report, both women had been raped before being shot. According to one report, 5,000 women staged a protest march to condemn the rapes and murders.135 To our knowledge, no group has claimed responsibility for the incident.

International attention to the human rights situation in India has encouraged the government to take a number of positive steps recently toward improving human rights conditions, but much more needs to be done. On June 22, 1995, the Indian government took an important step in deciding to allow the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to conduct humanitarian visits to detention facilities in Kashmir. However, the fact that international human rights groups (Human Rights Watch, for example) have not been allowed to conduct investigations in Kashmir underscores the urgent need for continued international pressure. Abuses in Kashmir continue to mount, including deaths in custody, disappearances, torture and rape. In a welcome step, the government has publicized a number of prosecutions of security personnel for rape and other abuses. However, the number of security force members actually sentenced remains very small relative to the number of known abuses. Too often Indian officials, when confronted with the evidence of rape, attempt to impugn the integrity of the victims and witnesses, discredit the testimony of physicians, lawyers and human rights activists, or simply deny the charges without thorough investigation—everything except order an impartial inquiry and prosecute those responsible. We are also unaware of any successful efforts by militant groups to prevent their forces from committing rape. By failing to take action, rigorously and consistently, against those who commit rape, both government and militant forces have ensured only that the use of rape as a weapon of war in Kashmir will continue.

 

[Hellfire]

@Azlan Haider Rebuttal for you.


The paper is trash.

First line is starting with Indian invading Jammu and Kashmir in 1947.

That is the travesty of facts, blatant lie and a post meant as a flame bait and troll fest.

There, I debunk your post with the opening line of the Paper itself.

Since the Indian invasion of 1947, the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir has been plagued by fierce armed conflict and political tension. Kashmiri insurgents have organized into over a dozen regionalist rebel groups and demand independence from India or accession to Pakistan.

Source: https://defence.pk/threads/understa...prevalence-consequences.445402/#ixzz4I2Xe27Nz


@Joe Shearer The rebuttal. Refer our communication. Author could not be a bigger liar. I can post numerous such Op Eds too. I yield the floor to you. @Azlan Haider I respected, today am dismayed by his posting a blatantly inaccurate and biased post of a dubious kid.

This post was meant to bait, troll and flame. I foretold it.

@Rain Man @jbgt90 @Pulsar @Nilgiri

 

[M. Sarmad]

@Azlan Haider Rebuttal for you.


The paper is trash.

First line is starting with Indian invading Jammu and Kashmir in 1947.

That is the travesty of facts, blatant lie and a post meant as a flame bait and troll fest.

There, I debunk your post with the opening line of the Paper itself.

]

And where is the Rebuttal ???

India did invade Kashmir in 1947. But We are not discussing the history of Kashmir Dispute here ... Are we ?

We are discussing "The Use of Rape by Indian Armed Forces as a Deliberate Military Strategy since 1989"

Try again

However, the number of security force members actually sentenced remains very small relative to the number of known abuses. Too often Indian officials, when confronted with the evidence of rape, attempt to impugn the integrity of the victims and witnesses, discredit the testimony of physicians, lawyers and human rights activists, or simply deny the charges without thorough investigation—everything except order an impartial inquiry and prosecute those responsible. We are also unaware of any successful efforts by militant groups to prevent their forces from committing rape. By failing to take action, rigorously and consistently, against those who commit rape, both government and militant forces have ensured only that the use of rape as a weapon of war in Kashmir will continue.

Says it all I guess.

But what is your point ?

Are you trying to say that as the militants have been involved in a few cases of Rape, the Indian Army is justified in raping thousands of innocent Kashmiri women ??

 

[Spectre]

Nothing is worse than half-truths. OP quotes selectively passages out of context to make vitriolic soup which has neither the balance or objectivity nor the honesty of a scholarly work.

I can tape together lowest points of any country and make them seem like pure evil but that is not how we paint the picture. France, USA, Pakistan, China, Japan, India, Spain, Belgium, Iran, Saudi -- all of us have had our lows but they don't define us and neither does this hateful mix of lies and selective snapshots portray India or the brave men of Indian armed forces.

As propaganda goes - good work.. Goebbels would be proud.