*LONDON – **British Broadcasting Corporation reports shocking stories ofIndian troops atrocities in Occupied Kashmir.*
*International media is finally waking up to narrate the horrors insideoccupied Kashmir, as British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)reportedlink on Friday the accountsof innocents Kashmiris being mercilessly tortured by Indian troops. *
“Security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir have been accused ofcarrying out beatings and torture in the wake of the government’s decisionto strip the region of its autonomy.” The BBC said several villagers toldthe publication that they were beaten with sticks and cables and givenelectric shocks.
In the occupied valley, “doctors and health officials are unwilling tospeak to journalists about any patients regardless of ailments, but thevillagers showed me injuries alleged to have been inflicted by securityforces,” wrote the BBC correspondent.
In one village, residents said that the army went from house to house justhours after India announced the controversial decision that upended adecades-old arrangement between Delhi and Kashmir.
Two brothers alleged that they were woken up and taken to an outside areawhere nearly a dozen other men from the village had been gathered. “Theybeat us up. We were asking them: ‘What have we done? You can ask thevillagers if we are lying, if we have done anything wrong?’ But they didn’twant to hear anything, they didn’t say anything, they just kept beatingus,” one of the victims said as per the international publication.
“They beat every part of my body. They kicked us, beat us with sticks, gaveus electric shocks, beat us with cables. They hit us on the back of thelegs. When we fainted they gave us electric shocks to bring us back. Whenthey hit us with sticks and we screamed, they sealed our mouth with mud.
“We told them we are innocent. We asked why they were doing this? But theydid not listen to us. I told them don’t beat us, just shoot us. I wasasking God to take me because the torture was unbearable,” BBC reported.
All the men, BBC spoke to in all the villages, believe the security forcesdid this to intimidate the villagers so that they would be too scared toprotest.