People's
Democracy
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) No. 51
December 29,2002
(Weekly Organ of the Communist Party of
India (Marxist) |
Vol.
XXVI No. 51 December 29,2002 |
AIDWA
Condemns
Kashmir
Killings
THE
All
India
Democratic
Women’s
Association
(AIDWA)
strongly
condemned
the
brutal
killing
of
women
and
children
by
the
terrorists
in
Hasiyot
district
Rajori
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir.
The
deliberate
targeting
by
the
militants
of
three
vulnerable
girls
(Noureen
Kausar,
Tahir
Parveen
and
Shehnaz
Akhtar)
show
the
inhuman
and
ruthless
lengths
that
the
militant
can
go,
to
spread
terror
and
compel
the
people
of
Jammu
and
Kashmir
to
follow
their
diktat.
"The
recent
killing
of
women
and
children
in
J&K
are
also
an
attempt
to
derail
the
functioning
of
the
recently
democratically
elected
government.
While
the
police/administration
and
certain
sections
of
the
press
have
attributed
different
motives
to
the
killing,
none
of
these
can
justify
such
an
inhuman
and
abhorrent
attack",
it
said
in
a
statement
issued
on
December
23.
AIDWA
also
condemned
the
reported
coercive
methods
adopted
by
certain
militant
groups
to
force
women
to
wear
the
burkha.
In
the
past
also
AIDWA
had
always
opposed
the
imposition
of
a
dress
code
on
women
in
J&K
and
elsewhere
by
fundamentalist
groups
of
any
community.
"This
imposition
of
the
dress
code,
apart
from
in
most
instances
being
anti-women
and
impacting
on
her
freedom
to
move
and
participate
in
civil
society
on
equal
terms,
is
also
an
infringement
of
the
basic
right
of
any
citizens
or
women
to
decide
what
to
wear",
stated
AIDWA.
It
appealed
to
all
sections
of
society
to
come
together
to
condemn
the
brutal
killings
of
women
and
children
by
the
militants
and
to
resist
this
and
the
imposition
of
any
dress
code
on
women.
