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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Human rights watch has also accused the [[Indian Security Forces]] of using children as spies and messengers,<ref name=Hartjen /> India army have targeted reporters and human rights activists, they have also been accused of committing over 200 rapes in an attempt to intimidate the local population.<ref name="Catherwood">{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide|last=Catherwood|first=Christopher|publisher=Infobase|isbn=978-8130903637|edition=1st|page=260|author2=Leslie Alan Horvitz}}</ref><ref name=Karatnycky>{{cite book|last=Karatnycky|first=Adrian|title=Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties|year=2001|publisher=Transaction|isbn=978-0765801012|page=616}}</ref> Wikileaks cables are reported to contain material stating that the International Committee of the Red Cross briefed US officials in India, alleging that India "condoned" torture and that "sexual penetration" formed part of the maltreatment of victims. The ICRC alleged that of the 1296 detainees interviewed, 681 had reported of being tortured. Of those, 304 individuals complained of sexual torture/abuse.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8208084/WikiLeaks-India-systematically-torturing-civilians-in-Kashmir.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Nick | last=Allen | title=WikiLeaks: India 'systematically torturing civilians in Kashmir' | date=17 December 2010}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Human rights watch has also accused the [[Indian Security Forces]] of using children as spies and messengers,<ref name=Hartjen /> India army have targeted reporters and human rights activists, they have also been accused of committing over 200 rapes in an attempt to intimidate the local population.<ref name="Catherwood">{{cite book|title=Encyclopedia of War Crimes and Genocide|last=Catherwood|first=Christopher|publisher=Infobase|isbn=978-8130903637|edition=1st|page=260|author2=Leslie Alan Horvitz}}</ref><ref name=Karatnycky>{{cite book|last=Karatnycky|first=Adrian|title=Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties|year=2001|publisher=Transaction|isbn=978-0765801012|page=616}}</ref> Wikileaks cables are reported to contain material stating that the International Committee of the Red Cross briefed US officials in India, alleging that India "condoned" torture and that "sexual penetration" formed part of the maltreatment of victims. The ICRC alleged that of the 1296 detainees interviewed, 681 had reported of being tortured. Of those, 304 individuals complained of sexual torture/abuse.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8208084/WikiLeaks-India-systematically-torturing-civilians-in-Kashmir.html | location=London | work=The Daily Telegraph | first=Nick | last=Allen | title=WikiLeaks: India 'systematically torturing civilians in Kashmir' | date=17 December 2010}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2005 [[Médecins Sans Frontières]] conducted a survey in Kashmir which found that the number of people who had witnessed a rape in Kashmir since 1989 was comparably far higher than the number of people who had witnessed a rape in other conflict zones such as Chechnya and Sri Lanka.<ref name=":32">{{cite journal|year=2014|title=Rape, Impunity And Justice In Kashmir|url=http://www.sociolegalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rape-Impunity-and-Justice-in-Kashmir.pdf|journal=Socio-Legal Review|volume=10|page=22|last1=Kazi|first1=Seema|access-date=28 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118224034/http://www.sociolegalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rape-Impunity-and-Justice-in-Kashmir.pdf|archive-date=18 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> The survey found that 13% of respondents had witnessed rape and 11.6% of the interviewees had themselves been victims of sexual abuse since 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artsenzondergrenzen.nl/pdf/KASHMIRFINALVERSION221106.pdf|title=Médecins Sans Frontières – Kashmir: Violence and Health|access-date=6 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108061947/http://www.artsenzondergrenzen.nl/pdf/KASHMIRFINALVERSION221106.pdf|archive-date=8 November 2013}}</ref><ref>[http://www.countercurrents.org/anjum101007.htm Wailing Woes], Combat Law, 10 October 2007</ref<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">><ref name=":32" /</del>> Dr Seema Kazi states that rapes committed by Indian security forces outstrips the rapes committed by militants in both scale and frequency.<ref>{{cite journal|year=2014|title=Rape, Impunity And Justice In Kashmir|url=http://www.sociolegalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rape-Impunity-and-Justice-in-Kashmir.pdf|journal=Socio-Legal Review|volume=10|page=23|last1=Kazi|first1=Seema|access-date=28 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118224034/http://www.sociolegalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rape-Impunity-and-Justice-in-Kashmir.pdf|archive-date=18 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Professor William Baker stated at the 52nd United Nations Commission on Human Rights that rape in Kashmir was an active strategy of the Indian forces to humiliate Kashmiri people.<ref>{{cite journal|year=2014|title=Rape, Impunity And Justice In Kashmir|url=http://www.sociolegalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rape-Impunity-and-Justice-in-Kashmir.pdf|journal=Socio-Legal Review|volume=10|page=28|last1=Kazi|first1=Seema|access-date=28 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118224034/http://www.sociolegalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rape-Impunity-and-Justice-in-Kashmir.pdf|archive-date=18 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In 2005 [[Médecins Sans Frontières]] conducted a survey in Kashmir which found that the number of people who had witnessed a rape in Kashmir since 1989 was comparably far higher than the number of people who had witnessed a rape in other conflict zones such as Chechnya and Sri Lanka.<ref name=":32">{{cite journal|year=2014|title=Rape, Impunity And Justice In Kashmir|url=http://www.sociolegalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rape-Impunity-and-Justice-in-Kashmir.pdf|journal=Socio-Legal Review|volume=10|page=22|last1=Kazi|first1=Seema|access-date=28 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118224034/http://www.sociolegalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rape-Impunity-and-Justice-in-Kashmir.pdf|archive-date=18 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> The survey found that 13% of respondents had witnessed rape and 11.6% of the interviewees had themselves been victims of sexual abuse since 1989.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><ref name=":32" /></ins><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.artsenzondergrenzen.nl/pdf/KASHMIRFINALVERSION221106.pdf|title=Médecins Sans Frontières – Kashmir: Violence and Health|access-date=6 January 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131108061947/http://www.artsenzondergrenzen.nl/pdf/KASHMIRFINALVERSION221106.pdf|archive-date=8 November 2013}}</ref><ref>[http://www.countercurrents.org/anjum101007.htm Wailing Woes], Combat Law, 10 October 2007</ref> Dr Seema Kazi states that rapes committed by Indian security forces outstrips the rapes committed by militants in both scale and frequency.<ref>{{cite journal|year=2014|title=Rape, Impunity And Justice In Kashmir|url=http://www.sociolegalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rape-Impunity-and-Justice-in-Kashmir.pdf|journal=Socio-Legal Review|volume=10|page=23|last1=Kazi|first1=Seema|access-date=28 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118224034/http://www.sociolegalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rape-Impunity-and-Justice-in-Kashmir.pdf|archive-date=18 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> Professor William Baker stated at the 52nd United Nations Commission on Human Rights that rape in Kashmir was an active strategy of the Indian forces to humiliate Kashmiri people.<ref>{{cite journal|year=2014|title=Rape, Impunity And Justice In Kashmir|url=http://www.sociolegalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rape-Impunity-and-Justice-in-Kashmir.pdf|journal=Socio-Legal Review|volume=10|page=28|last1=Kazi|first1=Seema|access-date=28 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118224034/http://www.sociolegalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Rape-Impunity-and-Justice-in-Kashmir.pdf|archive-date=18 November 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In April 2002, authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir arrested three Indian paramilitary soldiers following the gang rape of 17-year-old girl.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1940088.stm |title=SOUTH ASIA &#124; Kashmir troops held after rape |work=BBC News |date=19 April 2002 |access-date=10 March 2012}}</ref> In July 2011, there were anti-India protests in Srinagar against the alleged rape of a 25-year-old village woman in the village of Manzgam.<ref>{{cite web|author=From correspondents in Srinagar |url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/kashmir-protests-alleged-rape-by-soldiers/story-e6freuyi-1226100366625 |title=Kashmir protests alleged rape by soldiers |work=The Daily Telegraph|location=Australia |date=23 July 2011 |access-date=10 March 2012}}</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In April 2002, authorities in Indian-administered Kashmir arrested three Indian paramilitary soldiers following the gang rape of 17-year-old girl.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1940088.stm |title=SOUTH ASIA &#124; Kashmir troops held after rape |work=BBC News |date=19 April 2002 |access-date=10 March 2012}}</ref> In July 2011, there were anti-India protests in Srinagar against the alleged rape of a 25-year-old village woman in the village of Manzgam.<ref>{{cite web|author=From correspondents in Srinagar |url=http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/breaking-news/kashmir-protests-alleged-rape-by-soldiers/story-e6freuyi-1226100366625 |title=Kashmir protests alleged rape by soldiers |work=The Daily Telegraph|location=Australia |date=23 July 2011 |access-date=10 March 2012}}</ref></div></td></tr>
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