OVER ONE LAKH MENTAL PATIENTS IN KASHMIR: REPORT
Srinagar, Oct 10 (Only Kashmir): In occupied Kashmir, the number of mental patients in the wake of Indian state terrorism has crossed the one hundred thousand figure.
This has been revealed in a report issued by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of World Mental Health Day, today.
The report maintains that bombings, beatings, torture, unjustified arrest and detention, extra-judicial killings, and, Indian troops’ sense of impunity from prosecution, are among the violations recounted and such abuses have affected the local psyche adversely.
The report says that enforced disappearance is one of the most harrowing consequences of the armed conflict in Kashmir and during the last 21 years more than 10,000 people have been subjected to enforced disappearance by the troops. Of the disappeared persons, between 2000-2005 a majority were married males. Although men have been subjected to disappearance largely, but women have been badly affected because of being related to them as daughters, mothers, sisters and wives.
This has been revealed in a report issued by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of World Mental Health Day, today.
The report maintains that bombings, beatings, torture, unjustified arrest and detention, extra-judicial killings, and, Indian troops’ sense of impunity from prosecution, are among the violations recounted and such abuses have affected the local psyche adversely.
The report says that enforced disappearance is one of the most harrowing consequences of the armed conflict in Kashmir and during the last 21 years more than 10,000 people have been subjected to enforced disappearance by the troops. Of the disappeared persons, between 2000-2005 a majority were married males. Although men have been subjected to disappearance largely, but women have been badly affected because of being related to them as daughters, mothers, sisters and wives.
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