Brussels: Speakers at a conference held in Brussels expressed deep concern over the international community’s silence regarding India’s ongoing oppression of Kashmiri women in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK).

According to Kashmir Media Service, the event was titled ‘International Women’s Conference’ and organized by the Kashmir Council Europe at the European Press Club in Brussels. The conference highlighted the abuses faced by women at the hands of Indian forces in IIOJK.

Speakers at the event included Ali Raza Syed, Chairman of Kashmir Council Europe, European activist Ella Farooqi, Kashmiri scholar Amina Iqbal, and young Kashmiri intellectual Wasi Syed. Human rights activist Naveen Qayoom moderated the discussion.

The speakers stated that Indian forces in IIOJK are systematically targeting women with violence. They recalled the mass rape in Kunan Poshpora in 1991, where nearly 100 women were assaulted, and the rape and murder of Asiya and Neelofar in 2009.

These events remain fresh in the minds of Kashmiris. It was noted that the perpetrators, members of the Indian army, continue to roam freely, causing distress among the community.