From: azad@kashmir.gov (Mr. Kashmir)
Subject: Human Rights Violation in Kashmir (Part 1)  -  vohr_01.txt [1/1]
Date: 9 Oct 1995 04:14:20 GMT

TORTURE IN KASHMIR
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People- mainly young men- are tortured in Kashmir every day.
This is irrefragable, and there is exhaustive evidence gath-
ered by local human rights workers, lawyers and doctors to
support this assertion. Visiting teams of investigators have,
over the last two years, come to the valley and confirmed this,
as have several journalists, both Indian and foreign. The
methods employed are barbaric, inhuman and imaginatively
vicious. 

- Detainees are beaten, with rods or lathis; 

- They are whipped with flexible cable; 

- They are subjected to electric shock treatment, often to 
  the testicles and penis;

- Rods are thrust violently into the anus; 

- Hot iron rods are applied to the flesh, in a manner similar
  to the branding of animals; 

- Clothes irons are used on the backs and legs of men
  strapped to tables; 

- Sharp needles are inserted into the eardrums and penis; 

- The 'roller treatment' is administered, whereby a man astride
  two iron bars rolls the bars back and forth over the legs of a
  recumbent man;

- Cigarettes and bidis are stubbed into flesh;

- Heads are submerged forcibly into buckets of filthy water,
  repeatedely, over long periods of time;

- Detainees are compleed to drink quantities of muddy water till
  they vomit, the process being repeated ad nauseam, as it were;

- Soldiers urinate into the mouths of bound suspects;

- Men are slashed with razor blades or knives, chilli powder then
  being rubbed into the wounds.

- Mental torture is frequent, and is meted out in the form of
  abuse, verbal humiliation and remarks offensive to religious
  sentiments.

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Article from Des Droits Del'Homme RAPPORT on Kashmir by
Patanjali M. Varadarajan