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Kashmir – the Forgotten Occupation

September 2, 2008

“So many girls have been raped in Kashmir and so many of them are known to me,” she said. “One girl was interrogated and raped in front of her begging father-in-law.” She sees the tears in my eyes, folds the kameez she has just finished ironing and picks up the shalwar. “This is what happens all the time – our lives are built around deaths, rapes, murders. For two days we go to college and then for the next four days it’s closed because of a curfew or something going on.” Read Full Article

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