Do You Remember Kunanposhpora - Book Review By Javeed Bin Nabi

Do You Remember Kunanposhpora

Book Review By Javeed Bin Nabi

20 April, 2016
Countercurrents.org

Authors : Essar Batool, Irfah Butt, Samreena Mushtaq , Munaza Rashid and Natasha.
Published by : Zubaan Publishers.
Year : 2016

It was a snowy winter the tarred cold darkness outside , a night of callousness and incarceration. Yes, it was 23 February 1991, when a group of felon colonizers conducted a dubious search operation to find out whereabouts of militants in the two twin beautiful villages Kunan and Poshpora of Kupawars district in north Kashmir.

The intense lamentable night which the five ladies of Kashmir describes wholly in this book " Do You Remember Kunanposhpora " was a full of agony , barbarism , hapless and unheard screams. The authors of the book says that night was much furious and lamentation, indeed unpardonable. They fully narrates the agony of that night by Indian army who turned themselves into beasts and left the night into barbarity and full of blatant in the two villages of Kunan and Poshpora of Kupawara.

The authors say the occupants entered in each and every home with jackboots and raped every young and old women, including several pregnant and unmarried women, Their Fathers , Brothers and husbands were incarcerated by Indian army outside their homes. But when they return to their homes after that day they haplessly found their wives , daughters and aged mothers in a pool of blood and unconscious who were being raped repeatedly by malicious oppressors in whole night. They found their women naked,torned and abased by Indian army and left them crippled and ruined.

The authors of the book describes the brutality and obliteration of Indian army in the two villages of kupwara district. They simply narrates how Indian ruthless occupants lost their conscience and became obfuscate, caught hold every women of kunan and poshpora under their vicious behaviour and gangraped them one by one, among few were raped more than ten times. The victims were screaming loudly and lament rung by rung but all got in vain, their voices were dumped and muzzled. Thus , How can a victim who faced that horrible night would forget the brutality of Indian army ? How they forgive them who vigorously spoiled their dignity, the common and innocence life ?

Since that horrible and furious tarred night of 23 February 1991, no any Indian trooper was arrested and sent behind bars who was the part of that blatant night rather court received the three word paper "The Perpetrators Untraced". So without any exaggeration it can be rightly labelled as smudge and bolt on Indian army the brutal and inhumane tragedy of Kunanposhpora of Kupwara. One worries during a gangrape in 2012 of a medical student at Delhi whole India gushed out for protest till the culprits were treated with iron hand , but for Kashmiri women its sufficient to get penned down her name in dusty files of various government offices across Kashmir.

Its not first time that Indian army committed brutality , assaulting , molestation and rape of Kashmiri women but they did it since 1989. Indeed the book is the full account of pain and tears of Victims and Barbarism ,oppression and cruelty from Indian troopers.