Do You Remember Kunan-Poshpora?

On a cold February night in 1991 a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian Army pushed their way into two villages in Kashmir seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. They pulled the men out of their homes and subjected many to torture and the women to rape. According to village accounts as many as 31 women were raped. Twenty-one years later in 2012 the rape and murder of a young medical student in Delhi galvanized a protest movement so widespread and deep that it reached all corners of the world. In Kashmir a group of young women all in their twenties were inspired to re-open the Kunan-Poshpora case to revisit their history and to look at what had happened to the survivors of the 1991 mass rape. Through personal accounts of their journey this book examines questions of justice of stigma of the responsibility of the state and of the long-term impact of trauma.