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{{for| | {{Short description|Defunct military interrogation centre in Jammu and Kashmir, India}} | ||
{{for|the jail|Papa 2}} | |||
{{Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir}} | {{Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir}} | ||
'''Papa II''' was an [[interrogation]] centre in the Indian state of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]],<ref>{{cite book |author=Wirsing, Robert |title=India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir dispute: on regional conflict and its resolution |url=https://archive.org/details/indiapakistankas00wirs |url-access=registration |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |year=1994 |isbn=0-312-17562-0 }}</ref> operated by the [[Border Security Force]] (BSF)<ref name="HRW-1">{{cite web | '''Papa II''' was an [[interrogation]] centre in the Indian state of [[Jammu and Kashmir (state)|Jammu and Kashmir]],<ref>{{cite book |author=Wirsing, Robert |title=India, Pakistan, and the Kashmir dispute: on regional conflict and its resolution |url=https://archive.org/details/indiapakistankas00wirs |url-access=registration |publisher=St. Martin's Press |location=New York |year=1994 |isbn=0-312-17562-0 }}</ref> operated by the [[Border Security Force]] (BSF)<ref name="HRW-1">{{cite web | ||
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}}</ref> on the banks of the [[Dal Lake]] in [[Srinagar]]. On occupation by the [[paramilitary]] [[Border Security Force]] in 1989, it was named Papa II "in an attempt to keep the | }}</ref> on the banks of the [[Dal Lake]] in [[Srinagar]]. On occupation by the [[paramilitary]] [[Border Security Force]] in 1989, it was named Papa II "in an attempt to keep the compound's new purpose nominally confidential".<ref name='Himal'>{{cite journal |last=Hamid |first=Arshad |date=September 2007 |title=Kashmir's tortured past and present |journal=Himal |url=https://www.himalmag.com/kashmirs-tortured-past-and-present/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200521053421/https://www.himalmag.com/kashmirs-tortured-past-and-present/ |archive-date=2020-05-21 |url-status=live |access-date=2008-04-21 }}</ref> | ||
A May 1996 report by [[Human Rights Watch]] detailed allegations of abuse and torture at Papa II.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gossman |first=Patricia |date=May 1996 |title=INDIA'S SECRET ARMY IN KASHMIR: New Patterns of Abuse Emerge in the Conflict |publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]] |url=http://hrw.org/reports/1996/India2.htm#P410_104590 |access-date=2008-04-21}}</ref> According to [[William Dalrymple (historian)|William Dalrymple]], Papa II was a centre into which <blockquote>...large numbers of local people, as well as the occasional captured foreign jihadi, would "disappear." Their bodies would later be found, if at all, floating down rivers, bruised, covered in [[cigarette burns]], missing fingers or even whole limbs.<ref name="WD">{{cite magazine |last=Dalrymple |first=William |author-link=William Dalrymple (historian) |date=1 May 2008 |title=Kashmir: The Scarred and the Beautiful | A May 1996 report by [[Human Rights Watch]] detailed allegations of abuse and torture at Papa II.<ref>{{cite web |last=Gossman |first=Patricia |date=May 1996 |title=INDIA'S SECRET ARMY IN KASHMIR: New Patterns of Abuse Emerge in the Conflict |publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]] |url=http://hrw.org/reports/1996/India2.htm#P410_104590 |access-date=2008-04-21}}</ref> According to [[William Dalrymple (historian)|William Dalrymple]], Papa II was a centre into which <blockquote>...large numbers of local people, as well as the occasional captured foreign jihadi, would "disappear." Their bodies would later be found, if at all, floating down rivers, bruised, covered in [[cigarette burns]], missing fingers or even whole limbs.<ref name="WD">{{cite magazine |last=Dalrymple |first=William |author-link=William Dalrymple (historian) |date=1 May 2008 |title=Kashmir: The Scarred and the Beautiful | ||
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== In Popular Culture == | == In Popular Culture == | ||
The interrogation centre is referred as ''Mama-II'' by the character of ''Roohdaar'' / [[Ghost (Hamlet)]], cast on [[Irrfan Khan]] in the 2014 Indian [[crime drama]] movie [[Haider (film)]] which is based on [[William Shakespeare]]'s tragedy ''[[Hamlet]]'' and [[Basharat Peer]]'s memoir ''[[Curfewed Night]]''.<ref>https://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-haider-is-the-most-realistic-film-on-kashmir-s-horrors-2028219</ref> | The interrogation centre is referred as ''Mama-II'' by the character of ''Roohdaar'' / [[Ghost (Hamlet)]], cast on [[Irrfan Khan]] in the 2014 Indian [[crime drama]] movie [[Haider (film)]] which is based on [[William Shakespeare]]'s tragedy ''[[Hamlet]]'' and [[Basharat Peer]]'s memoir ''[[Curfewed Night]]''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dnaindia.com/analysis/column-haider-is-the-most-realistic-film-on-kashmir-s-horrors-2028219|title = Haider is the most realistic film on Kashmir's horrors|date = 22 October 2014}}</ref> | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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[[Category:Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir]] | [[Category:Human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir]] | ||
[[Category:1990s in Jammu and Kashmir]] | [[Category:1990s in Jammu and Kashmir]] | ||
[[Category:Military prisoner abuse scandals]] | |||