5 Kashmiri women who won’t let you forget Kunan-Poshpora mass rape

Five young Kashmiri women have worked relentlessly for three years to comprehensively document one of the worst crimes against humanity committed by the Indian armed forces in the Valley: the mass rape of more than 30 women in Kunan-Poshpora villages of Kupwara in 1991. The fruit of their labour, ‘Do You Remember Kunan-Poshpora’, was recently a topic of discussion at the Jaipur Literary Festival that concluded last week. On February 23, 1991, an unspecified number of soldiers gang-raped the women, some of them old, during a search operation in Kunan…

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