Srinagar, Publish Date: Feb 23 2018
Terming Kunan Poshpora incident as “most reprehensible crime against humanity”, Hurriyat (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq on its 27th anniversary said that the “assault is forever etched in the hearts of Kashmiris.”
Taking to social networking site, Twitter, Mirwaiz wrote: “It has been 27 years when in #KunanPoshpura the most reprehensible crime against humanity,mass rape was used as a war weapon by the Indian soldiers against the women and girls in both the villages in order to punish & intimidate people for demanding their political right.”
“This deliberate beastly assault is forever etched in our hearts as one of the most painful memory of subjugation & occupation for the last three decades. These women are the brave hearts of #Kashmir, and people of Kashmir will always remember and honour their great sacrifice,” he wrote in another tweet.