32 years on: families of Zakoora and Tengpora massacres victims still await justice 

Srinagar, March 01, 2022 (PPI-OT):In Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the families of Kashmiris killed in Zakoora and Tengpora massacres in 1990 by the Indian forces still await justice as India continues to ignore their repeated calls for taking the culprits to task. On this day in 1990, Indian troops committed twin massacres in Zakoora and Tengpora Bypass in Srinagar that left mora than 50 people dead.

In Zakoora, the Indian army killed over two dozen people by opening fire on peaceful protesters while they were heading toward the office of United Nations Military Observer Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) to submit a memorandum seeking resolution to the Kashmir dispute, Likewise, the Indian army targeted two buses near Tengora Bypass killing more than 20 unarmed Kashmiris including five women.

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