Beatings, abuse alleged by Kashmiris as India launches crackdown

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Indian policeman beat and detain Kashmiri Shiite mourners during curfew like restrictions in the city center in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir, India. India has banned any processions and similar public gatherings in Kashmir after a rebellion against Indian rule broke out in 1989.The Indian soldiers descended on Bashir Ahmed Dar’s house in southern Kashmir on Aug.

Asked by AP to respond to the recent allegations of abuse from the Northern Command, the Indian army’s headquarters in Jammu and Kashmir. Its spokesman based in the main city of Srinagar, Col. Rajesh Kalia, dismissed the villagers’ accounts as “completely baseless and false,” and asserted the Indian army values human rights.

But frustration, anger and fear have been growing in Kashmir in the five weeks since the Hindu nationalist government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi stripped the region of most of its semiautonomous status on Aug. 5 and imposed a curfew and a communications blackout.

“They hit our backs and legs for three hours. They gave us electric shocks,” Ahmed said, lifting his shirt to show his burned and bruised back. “As we cried and pleaded them to let us go, they became more relentless and ruthless in their beating. They forced us to eat dust and drink water from a drain.”

New Delhi initially grappled with largely peaceful anti-India movements in its portion of Kashmir. However, a series of political blunders, broken promises and a crackdown on dissent escalated the conflict into a full-blown armed rebellion against Indian control in 1989 for a united Kashmir, either under Pakistan rule or independent of both. Since then, about 70,000 people have been killed in the conflict, which India sees as a proxy war by Pakistan.

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