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1989, an estimated 40,000 Kashmiris have been killed by the Indian forces stationed in
Kashmir. For the last five years the people of the State have intensified their efforts in
order to invite the attention of the world community towards the "Kashmir
Dispute", though the people of the State had been fighting for their just cause
peacefully for the last forty eight years. Indian Government throughout these four decades
has been suppressing the people by illegal use of force, putting them into the jails/
Interrogation centres etc. under draconian laws. Whenever any person demanded holding of
" Plebiscite", he has been put behind the bars. The Indian Forces, stationed in Kashmir, have been given a free hand to kill any person they choose. These powers have been given to them under the draconian laws like "Disturbed Areas Act of 1990" and "Indian Armed Forces Act of 1990". Indifference shown by world community to the miseries of people, have encouraged and given a free hand to armed forces, to deal with the people, as they like. In October 1992, the Indian Armed forces started to intensify the killing of people immediately after their arrest. These operations have been carried out under the code name of "Operation Tiger", "Operation Eagle" and "Operation Shiva". Now the armed forces have resorted to another policy of "Catch and Kill" which means that no sooner a person is taken into custody, within minutes he is brutally tortured and killed . The dead body is then thrown into the street. In other cases, innocent civilians are arrested and taken to border areas where they are shot. The Indian government then publicises that these people were militants killed in armed encounters with the troops.
It is common practice for the paramilitary forces to walk into a quiet village/town and start shooting indiscriminately, killing innocent and unarmed civilians - all under the pretence of crack-down operations against the Freedom-Fighters. In most cases, innocent civilians are killed, women gang-raped and properties set on fire.
Below is a brief catalogue of the unjustified killings by the Indian troops in Kashmir. This catalogue is by no means complete as thousands of killings go un-noticed and undocumented. The list given below was compiled painstakingly by various Kashmiri Human-rights activists, with great risks to their personal lives.
| Contents | Click on a section or click the arrow below to navigate through all the cases |
| 1. April - June 1994 | 2. January - March 1994 |
| 3. December 1993 | 4. September - November 1993 |
| 5. July - August 1993 | 6. March - June 1993 |
| 7. January - March 1993 | 8. November - December 1992 |
| 9. January - November 1992 | 10. October 91 - January 92 |
| 11. April - September 1991 | 12. July 1990 - March 1991 |
| 13. January - July 1990 |
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Waiz Mohammad Umar Farooq Says
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