Torture and human rights abuses by Indian Security Forces (ISF) in occupied Kashmir, was a routine which created hatred against India, said a Channel 4 documentary on Friday.
The torture by Indian police was a routine in Kashmir to get information, about the Kashmiris, fighting against Indian oppression to achieve the goal of freedom, said the documentary, "The Killing of Kashmir."
It was prepared by Sandra Jordan, who depicted the agony, pain, humiliation and terrible conditions of the people.
Sandra Jordan travelled into Indian occupied Kashmir, met Kashmiri men, women and children to get the first hand knowledge from the villages and Srinagar about their plight.
The documentary said 60,000 people had been killed so far in Indian held Kashmir. Indian forces carry out house search, pick the people up, while their families were left in agonising wait for years, if they return, and added that at all eight thousand Kashmiris had vanished so far.
When Sandra approached Indian police, shown thrashing women in the document any, it refused to talk. The Kashmiri women were shown chanting slogans against Indian police "shame, shame," as it were pushing them aside.
The documentary showed a girl child telling her story about her parents, picked up by the ISF. With tears rolling down her cheeks, she said that her mother, Atiqa was tortured by woman police in Indian held Kashmir.
Atiqa had been severely beaten and was at the brink of unconsciousness, while her husband was half-dead," said the documentary.
"I am aware about human rights abuses in Kashmir," a civilian official said but expressed his inability to do anything about it. He claimed that these abuses were brought into notice of the security forces, who were running the show and not the civilian administration."
The documentary said, "the security forces brutalities create hatred for India.
It showed the body of a recently martyred Kashmiri leader, Ghulam Rasool Dan, killed by ISF, which was described as a fake encounter by the family members of a house from where the bodies of two Kashmiri leaders were shown being recovered in the documentary.
The family told 'channel four' that ISF failed to recover anything after a thorough search of their house but later brought the two bodies of the Kashmiri leaders there, to claim they were killed in an encounter with them at this very house.
The entire village turned out, a testimony of hatred to India, while the documentary showed the people clamouring to touch Rasool Dan's body before his funeral prayers.
It also interviewed a Kashmiri leader who said that people in Kashmir were fighting for "a just and great cause." He said Kashmiri people must be given an chance to choose their destiny.
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