# Atrocities and massacres **URL:** https://kashmirhope.com/c/atrocities/10.md [Latest](https://kashmirhope.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://kashmirhope.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://kashmirhope.com/tags.md) --- ## [About the Atrocities and massacres category](https://kashmirhope.com/t/about-the-atrocities-and-massacres-category/191)
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Massacres, mass rape and the killing of unarmed protesters by Indian forces, from Gawkadal in 1990 to the pellet blindings of 2016, and the long refusal to hold anyone to account. --- ## [The Gawkadal massacre](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-gawkadal-massacre/147)
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21 January 1990 | Srinagar On 21 January 1990, two days after New Delhi imposed Governor’s Rule, India’s Central Reserve Police Force opened fire on thousands of unarmed Kashmiris crossing the Gawkadal bridge in Srinaga… --- ## [The Handwara massacre](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-handwara-massacre/148)
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25 January 1990 | Handwara On 25 January 1990, four days after the Gawkadal massacre, men of India’s Border Security Force opened fire on thousands of unarmed people marching in Handwara, in north Kashmir, against the k… --- ## [The Zakura and Tengpora massacres](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-zakura-and-tengpora-massacres/149)
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1 March 1990 | Srinagar On 1 March 1990 Indian army soldiers fired on unarmed Kashmiris marching to and from the United Nations observers’ office in Srinagar, where they were handing in memoranda demanding freedom: firs… --- ## [The Hawal massacre](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-hawal-massacre/150)
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21 May 1990 | Srinagar On 21 May 1990, hours after gunmen of Hizbul Mujahideen assassinated Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq at his home, men of the 69th Battalion of India’s Central Reserve Police Force fired on the procession … --- ## [The Kunan–Poshpora mass rape and the pursuit of justice](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-kunan-poshpora-mass-rape-and-the-pursuit-of-justice/152)
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23–24 February 1991 | Kashmir Valley On the night of 23 to 24 February 1991 soldiers of the Indian army’s 4th Rajputana Rifles cordoned off the villages of Kunan and Poshpora in Kupwara, tortured the men and raped women… --- ## [The Sopore massacre](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-sopore-massacre/154)
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6 January 1993 | Kashmir Valley On 6 January 1993, after Kashmiri fighters attacked one of their patrols, men of the 94th Battalion of India’s Border Security Force shot shoppers, traders and bus passengers in the main … --- ## [The Bijbehara massacre](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-bijbehara-massacre/155)
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22 October 1993 | Bijbehara On 22 October 1993 men of the 74th Battalion of India’s Border Security Force fired for more than ten minutes on an unarmed procession leaving Friday prayers in Bijbehara, killing at least th… --- ## [The Kupwara massacre](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-kupwara-massacre/167)
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27 January 1994 | Kupwara On 27 January 1994, the day after Kupwara town defied an Indian army warning and shut its shops on India’s Republic Day, soldiers on road-opening duty opened fire on the bus stand and market as… --- ## [The Pathribal fake encounter and the Brakpora killings](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-pathribal-fake-encounter-and-the-brakpora-killings/156)
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25 March 2000 | Anantnag Five days after gunmen massacred the Sikh men of Chattisinghpora in March 2000, the Indian army’s 7th Rashtriya Rifles announced that it had killed the five “foreign militants” responsible at Pa… --- ## [The 2008 uprising: the Amarnath land transfer and the killing of protesters](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-2008-uprising-the-amarnath-land-transfer-and-the-killing-of-protesters/168)
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June–August 2008 | Jammu and Kashmir In May 2008 the government in Indian-occupied Kashmir agreed to hand forest land in the Valley to the board that runs the Amarnath pilgrimage, and Kashmiris rose against what they sa… --- ## [Shopian: the deaths of Asiya and Neelofar Jan](https://kashmirhope.com/t/shopian-the-deaths-of-asiya-and-neelofar-jan/169)
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29–30 May 2009; investigation later that year | Kashmir Valley Neelofar Jan, 22, and her sister-in-law Asiya Jan, 17, disappeared on the way home from their orchard in Shopian on 29 May 2009 and were found dead the next… --- ## [The Machil fake encounter](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-machil-fake-encounter/157)
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30 April 2010 | Kupwara On the night of 29 to 30 April 2010 soldiers of the Indian army’s 4th Rajputana Rifles shot dead three young labourers from Nadihal in Baramulla, who had been lured to the Line of Control at Mach… --- ## [The 2010 uprising and the killing of protesters](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-2010-uprising-and-the-killing-of-protesters/158)
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Summer 2010 | Kashmir Valley Between June and September 2010 India’s Central Reserve Police Force and the Jammu and Kashmir police killed well over a hundred people in the Kashmir Valley, most of them teenagers and youn… --- ## [Burhan Wani and the 2016 uprising](https://kashmirhope.com/t/burhan-wani-and-the-2016-uprising/170)
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8 July 2016 | Kashmir Valley On 8 July 2016 Indian forces killed Burhan Wani, a 22-year-old commander of the Kashmiri armed group Hizbul Mujahideen who had taken up arms at fifteen, months after Indian security personne… --- ## [Pellet shotguns and the blinding of Kashmir’s young](https://kashmirhope.com/t/pellet-shotguns-and-the-blinding-of-kashmir-s-young/159)
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Report published 2017; cases from 2014–2017 | Kashmir Valley Since 2010 India’s Central Reserve Police Force and the Jammu and Kashmir Police have fired pump-action shotguns loaded with hundreds of metal pellets at Kash… --- ## [The Amshipora fake encounter](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-amshipora-fake-encounter/166)
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18 July 2020 | Shopian On 18 July 2020 soldiers of the Indian army’s 62nd Rashtriya Rifles killed three young labourers from Rajouri, Imtiyaz Ahmed, Abrar Ahmed and Mohammed Ibrar, at Amshipora in Shopian, announced the… --- ## [The Hyderpora killings](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-hyderpora-killings/172)
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15 November 2021 | Srinagar On 15 November 2021 an Indian army, police and paramilitary operation at a commercial building in Hyderpora, Srinagar, killed four people, among them the building’s owner Mohammad Altaf Bhat,… --- ## [The Topa Pir torture deaths](https://kashmirhope.com/t/the-topa-pir-torture-deaths/174)
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22 December 2023 | Poonch On 22 December 2023, the day after armed fighters killed four soldiers in an ambush in Poonch, soldiers of the Indian army’s 48th Rashtriya Rifles took men from Topa Pir, a village of Gujjar he…