19th April 1990: When a Kashmiri Hindu girl Sarla Bhatt fell prey to the monsters of valley

Around 34 yrs on, Kashmiri Hindus haven't been able to forget even today the pain and sufferings they went through in the doomed period of 1989-90. Hundreds of Kashmiri Hindus were killed, raped and tortured mercilessly. The then government turned their back to the sufferers and it further emboldened the terror groups to continue their brutality and genocide.

 

 

 

 

In wake of 1990, the insurgency groups led by several anti-India groups had ensured that the valley was bereft of Kashmiri Hindus. Newspapers carrying threat messages by terrorists were circulated around the valley to target Hindus. They were threatened to convert their religion or leave overnight or else face dire consequences of staying back. Similar posters were pasted over the walls of residential areas of Pandit families. Families of Kashmiri Hindus were even traumatised with rape and kidnapping threats. As part of this dreadful agenda, a Hindu girl named Sarla Bhat who was a resident of Anantnag and worked as a nurse at Kashmir’s premier medical institution SKIMS at Soura, Srinagar was brutally gangraped and cut to pieces in the most inhuman way.

 

 

 

 

 

She was abducted from the Medical Institute and gangraped for many days before getting dumped on roadside. Kidnapped from the Hostel of the Institute itself on April 14, 1990 by a group of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front affiliates, her dead body with bullet wounds was later found on April 19th, in the downtown area of Srinagar. The post-mortem report concluded that she was gangraped before being killed.