Bureau Report
MUZAFFARABAD: International forum for justice Human Rights JK chairman Mohammad Ahsan Untoo in a statement said that the victims of the worst kind of state terrorism of sopore 6 january 1993 are waiting for justice which is being denied by the biased legal system supported by an aggressive and fascist Indian Government. The Sopore massacre which claimed national and international print and electronic media, more than 75 lives hundreds of shops and residential houses were burned is glaring example of a planned genocide by occupational forces which the world and human rights organizations should take note of and act according to their conscience ,Sopore MassacreOn January 6 1993, the Indian Border Security Force (BSF)personalsas per different media reports killed 75 civilians and burnt Sopore market, also known as Chota London (Little London). The massacre is seen as one of the worst massacres Indian forces carried out in Kashmir’s history. The ‘TIME MAGAZINE’ had titled the news report on January 18, 1993 as “Blood Tide Rising”.Eyewitnesses recall that fateful day; it was a chilly morning of 6th January 1993. Around 9:30 am, a small group of 3-4 militants attacked a platoon of Border Security Force (BSF) at Baba Yousuf lane resulting in killing of one of their troopers. One of the militant’s snatched a service rifle from a BSF trooper. It was at the very moment the BSF troopers went berserk. The common people had to pay for it. What followed was the biggest massacre of innocent people that Kashmir witnessed since 1990, when the armed rebellion against India broke out in Kashmir. At around 9:55 am, just half an hour after the firing incident, the BSF unit of 94 Battalion stationed some five kilometers away from the Baba Yousuf Lane where the firing incident happened, came out of their barracks and resorted to indiscriminate firing upon the people in the most inhumane manner. The BSF jawans later sprinkled the gun powder on the entire Sopore market and set it ablaze.
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