The Indian army has been given a free hand by its government to use violence, which is used as a tactic to crush the freedom movement, according to human rights organizations and international NGOs, the Indian government is using violence in Occupied Kashmir.
As a policy, thousands of civilians have been subjected to the worst human rights violations. The Indian Army uses various methods of torture, including sexual violence such as rape and mutilation, waterboarding, burning the body parts with hot objects, solitary confinement, and electric shocks to the genitals.
A Comprehensive Report According to "Torture: Indian State's Instrument of Control in Indian Administered Jammu and Kashmir," 70 percent of torture victims are civilians, and 11 percent die during or as a result of torture, attributed to the armed forces. Due to legal, political and moral impunity, not a single case of human rights violations has been prosecuted in Occupied Kashmir.
It is also worrisome that all institutions of the state, be it the legislature, the executive, the judiciary and the armed forces, are all complicit in acts of violence, like the thousands of Kashmiri terrorists arrested before and after August 5, 2019.
India has illegally abducted nearly 10,000 Kashmiris, including the top leadership of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference, internationally recognized human rights activists, professionals and journalists, who are locked up in notorious jails. Indian agencies have registered fake cases and not even a single piece of evidence has been presented in the Indian Kangaroo Courts to prove these cases, Muhammad Yasin Malik, Nusrat Alam Bhat, Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Naeem Ahmed Khan, Asia Andrabi and Dozens of high-ranking political leaders, among others, were picked up from their homes and sent to jails in India.
The conviction of Kashmiri leader Muhammad Yasin Malik in a dubious and politically motivated case filed by the Indian NIA is clear evidence that the Indian government is using the judiciary as a weapon to silence the legitimate voices of Kashmiris.
It is beyond any doubt that Muhammad Yasin Malik and other Kashmiri leaders are being punished just for speaking up for Kashmiris.
The Indian state does not discriminate in terms of violence, even against women and minors. It is targeted. The entire population of Occupied Kashmir has also been subjected to mass punishments such as sieges and searches, during which beatings and sexual violence are commonplace, according to a 2015 study published by Doctors Without Borders, 19 percent of the Kashmiri population post Sufferers of Traumatic Stress Disorder India has signed the UN Convention against Torture in 1997, but has not ratified the treaty till date.
