Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day: Do You Remember Kunan-Poshpora?

On the night of February 22-23, 1991, a battalion of Indian army personnel conducted a sudden search operation in the twin villages of Kunan and Poshpora, in Jammu and Kashmir. According to allegations by the residents of the villages, what followed the search operation was ghastly – the rape of close to 100 Kashmiri women. Five young Kashmiri women have penned a book called ‘Do You Remember Kunan Poshpora’ documenting the history of the incident and the judicial tussle that has followed. On Kashmiri Women’s Resistance Day, Youth Ki Awaaz managed to speak to two of the five authors about everything that happened that night, their motivation to research and document it, and the continuing struggle and resistance of Kashmiri women.