Kashmir's children are being brutalised
Kashmir Updates - Rouf Dar - May 4, 2018
A new report that details the extent of violence against children in Jammu and Kashmir suggests that Indian armed forces have directly targeted children.
In the wombs and outside of them, inside homes and on the streets, in the lush green fields of a valley dubbed as “paradise on earth”, no facet of Kashmiri life has been left untouched from the brutal war that India has imposed on it.
Children in the Kashmir conflict are the subject of a new report released by the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society under the title “Terrorised: Impact of Violence on the Children of Jammu and Kashmir”.
The report details the various ways in which children (defined as ages 1-17) have been victimised over the last 15 years — killings by armed forces, sexual violence, illegal detentions, occupation of schools and violence against students.
From 1989 — when the first armed insurgency against Indian rule broke out — to 2003, the report mentions that among the total 5106 people killed and forcibly disappeared, 392 were children.
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