Countless men especially youth have been tortured and crippled for life while thousands languish in jails and torture cells. Well over one million Kashmiri Muslims have been forced to flee their homes or have gone into hiding. In addition, thousands of houses and shops have been either demolished or destroyed by fire while hundreds of schools and hospitals have been burnt besides desecration of holy shrines. Food stocks, crops and forestry worth billions have been burnt or destroyed. House-raids, curfews, crackdowns, harassment, torture, indiscriminate firing and arbitrary arrests have become a routine affair in Indian Held Kashmir, resulting in sleepless nights and chaos for the poor inhabitants.
Indian soldiers abuse an innocent Kashmiri in the middle of the street.
It happens everyday in Indian-held Kashmir. More then six hundred thousand Indian troops have been deployed in Indian Held Kashmir making it the most heavily militarized area in the world. For a population of around eight million Kashmir's who are predominantly Muslims, over six hundred thousand Indian troops have been placed which include regular forces, paramilitary forces, Border Security Forces, Central Reserve Police Force, Rashtriya Rifles, Special Task Force and Police force etc. Nowhere in the world are forces concentrated in any territory in as large numbers as they are in Indian Held Kashmir. These atrocities are the handiwork of ruthless Indian forces who at the behest of their commander of Kashmiris through all possible cruel fors and rulers want to break the will and voicems of repression.