22 October 1993 – Black Friday

When BSF men butchered 51 protesters in Kashmir ‘Pain lingers and horror still haunts survivors’ Twenty-two years have expired and the Indian Border Security Forces (BSF) personnel from 74th Battalion allegedly responsible for butchering scores of innocent and peaceful protestors in Bijbehara town of South Kashmir’s Anantnag district have not been brought to book and the ‘killers’ are still roaming free. Locals lament that justice has been eluding the families of the victims. Amnesty International reported that at least 51 people died and 200 were wounded on 22 October 1993, while the…

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