The struggle erupts again.......contd

Through out the year 1990 kashmiris were targeted everywhere. No one was spared children, women and adults all were made to pay the price of rebellion against India. India known to the world as the biggest democracy broke all democratic procedures and violated all human rights in crushing the struggle in kashmir. The Armed Forces Special Powers Act was passed and a reign of terror was let loose on innocent Kashmiris. Who can forget the unprovoked firing on demonstartions or the mass rape of women in konun Poshpora and hundreds of other places. Residential and commercial complexes were set ablaze in srinagar, Sopore and elsewhere in the valley. Young innocents were killed everyday. People were detained and held in custody without trials. Young boys from all over the valley were interrogated in ways alien to human culture. A fear was created in the general population in the valley. The Nineties were the worst period of time for Kashmiris which will always be remembered by them as the most difficult and traumatic. As a result of the pain and sufferings many kashmiris migrated to Pakistani side of Kashmir and many others moved to other countries to escape the bullets in Kashmir. Indian and Pakistani relations became tense and on a few occasions war like conditions prevailed. The turn of the century welcomed the new millennium for the world but nothing much changed for the Kashmiris who were still under the Indian occupation. Though things did ease a little bit but custodial killings and disappearances became widespread. It is 2008 now, conditions in Kashmir today are a little better than what they were a decade earlier but the ground situation has not changed much.Kashmiris still wait their birth right.......their right of self determination.............