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According to a joint report by the human rights organizations Asia
Watch and Physicians for Human Rights, the rape policy of the Indian

administration towards Muslim women works as follows:
«As the conflict in Kashmir enters its fourth year, central and state authorities
have done little to stop the widespread practice of rape by Indian security forces in
Kashmir. Indeed, when confronted with the evidence of rape, time and again the
authorities have attempted to impugn the integrity of the witnesses, discredit the
testimony of physicians or simply deny the charges everything except order a full
inquiry and prosecute those responsible for rape. …

Since January 1990, rape by Indian occupation forces has become more frequent.
Rape most often occurs during crackdowns, cordon and search operations during
which men are held for identification in parks or schoolyards while security forces
search their homes. In raping them, the security forces are attempting to punish
and humiliate the entire community. …
The security forces have entered hospitals, beaten patients, hit doctors, entered op-
erating theaters, smashed instruments. Ambulances have been attacked, curfew
passes are confiscated. …

The most common torture methods are severe beatings, sometimes while the vic-
tim is hung upside down, and electric shocks.” 101
The Kashmiri Muslims have resisted the Indian administration and
fought to gain their independence since 1947. The Indian forces have
committed large scale genocide on three occasions; in 1947, 1965 and
1971 in order to break the resistance. Tens of thousands of Kashmiri
Muslims have been martyred, and more than 4,000 women have been
raped or otherwise tortured. Schools providing religious education have
been closed. 102 The worst ever assimilation and persecution campaign

began in 1990. People have been wrongfully apprehended and tortured
to death. Houses have been torched, defenseless people have been vio-
lently oppressed, and schools and newspapers have been shut down. A

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)