Sunday, August 23, 2009

Shopian rape and murder - NYT finally reports Kashmir abuses

2 Killings Stoke Kashmiri Rage at Indian Force

Published: August 15, 2009

SHOPIAN, Kashmir — On a sunny late spring afternoon, Asiya and Nilofar Jan left home to tend to their family’s apple orchard. Along the way they passed a gantlet of police camps wreathed in razor wire as they crossed the bridge over the ankle-deep Rambi River.

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Candace Feit

Nilofar Jan’s husband, Shakeel Ahmad Ahanger, left, with Nilofar’s father. Nilofar and Asiya Jan vanished on May 29. More Photos »

Candace Feit

A sister of Nilofar Jan, with Nilofar’s son, Suzain. Nilofar and her sister-in-law Asiya Jan were found dead this spring. More Photos >

Little more than 12 hours later their battered bodies were found in the stream. Asiya, a 17-year-old high school student, had been badly beaten. Blood streamed from her nose and a sharp gash in her forehead. She and her 22-year-old sister-in-law, Nilofar, had been gang raped before their deaths.

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