KASHMIR: WIDOWS OF CONFLICT

As the world marks the United Nations’ International Day of Widows, thousands of Kashmiri widows mourn the brutal killing of their husbands by Indian troops. The genocide in IIOJK continues unabated leaving a blotch on India’s face of a ‘so-called champion of human rights’. Women of IIOJK have suffered the most as mothers, wives, widows, and sisters but half-widows have been the worst case. The Indian security forces often abuse women, particularly half-widows, through rape, molestation, and other sexual crimes. The situation of widows and half-widows is an eye-opener for the world if it realizes that more needs to be done rather than merely observing an international day for them.

Guinness Book of World Records has declared Kashmir as the “planet’s largest militarized territorial dispute”.  Brutalities in IIOJK reveals a data of over 95,000 killings of Kashmiris, 22,000 plus each widows and orphans, 6,000 mass graves, and over 8,000 enforced disappearances. Brutalities in IIOJK reveals a data of over 95,000 killings of Kashmiris, 22,000 plus each widows and orphans, 6,000 mass graves and over 8,000 enforced disappearances. The life of widows in IIOJK is marked with agony whose husbands have been killed in raising voice for their right to self-determination. The number of half widows as per the Association of parents of the disappeared persons (APDP) is more than 2000. They still don’t know whether their husbands are being killed or alive. This complex dilemma led to pervasive physical, social, economic and psychological problems because these women cannot re-marry as per Shariah law until it is not ascertained whether her ex-husband is alive or dead.

Kashmiri women have to make ends meet besides suffering from trauma and constant fear of being mistreated by Indian forces that may hunt, torture and rape women. India must realize that use of brutal force against the Kashmiri people, extra-judicial killings, custodial torture & deaths, forced disappearances, incarceration of Kashmiri leadership & youth and other methods of subjugation have failed in the past and will not succeed in the future.

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