World Women Day of no importance for Kashmiri women
March 8, 2010 |15:13 | World By : Team X
In occupied Kashmir, the World Women Day has no importance for the Kashmiri women as they have been the worst victims of rights violations by Indian troops in the territory for the last 63 years. Mahjabeen, a Kashmiri woman and resident of Nageen area in Srinagar, talking to the newsmen, said that thousands of women suffered the loss of their sons, husbands and brothers who disappeared in custody or martyred by the troops.
She said that she never felt the importance of the day, as it had never brought any revolution for the women of the occupied territory. “Kashmiri women remembered only the days on which the troopers had kill their sons or disappear in custody their brothers,” she added.
Another Kashmiri woman, Hasina Akhtar said that the women rights movements at international level in connection with the day had not affected the lives of the women in the occupied valley. Professor Hameeda Naeem said that the situation regarding women rights in the valley was dissatisfactory as the women had been the direct victims of Indian state terrorism. She demanded of the world community and international human rights organisations to impress upon India to stop rights violations in the territory and give the Kashmiris their birthright to self-determination.
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