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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Jammu and Kashmir
The alleged police informers were
brutally killed often by slaughtering. On
13 March 2004, one Kaka Piswal of
Chechi Marg in the Shopian area of
Pulwama district was allegedly abducted
and shot dead by armed opposition
groups’ members suspecting him to be a
police informer. 78 On 29 April 2004, one
Mohammad Qasim son of Peer Baksh
from village Sumber, Ramban in
Udhampur district was kidnapped and shot
dead suspecting him to be an informer of
the security forces. 79 On the night of 23
May 2004, Talib Hussain son of Roshan
Ali of Sangate under Gursai police station
limits in Poonch district was dragged out
from his house after being accused of a
police informer and shot dead. His son
Mohammed Shabir who intervened and
attempted to free his father was reportedly
beaten to death. 80 On the night of 12
August 2004, Fazal Hussain of village
Mangota in Thannamandi teshil of Rajouri
district was shot dead after being accused
of being an informer of security forces. 81
On 8 September 2004, members of armed
opposition groups dragged Kalu Din,
Mishri Gujjar and Ghulam Shah to a
nearby forest and beheaded accusing them
of being informers of security forces. 82 On
the night of 26 December 2004, Alia, son
of Baba Gujjar of Morshaan Birbalbari in
Gool in Udhampur district was kidnapped
and shot dead. 83
The surrendered armed opposition
group members and their families became
specific target of violence. On 20
February 2004, a released member
belonging to Hizbul Mujahideen, Abdul
Rashid Khan from Larnow, Kokernag in
Srinagar was hanged. His dead body was
found from an adjoining village. 84 In the
evening of 16 May 2004, Abdul Ahad
Naik, 55 of Mahoo Mangat village under
Banihal tehsil in Doda district was
dragged out of the house and shot dead
reportedly to avenge the surrender of his
son, Mohammed Ayub, a member of the
Hizbul Mujahideen. 85 On intervening
night of 16 and 17 August 2004, Roshan
Lal Din alias Alam Khan was kidnapped
from his seasonal hut located at Rattan
area and hanged from a tree reportedly for
encouraging his son’s surrender before the
Rashtriya Rifles. 86 On the night of 17
August 2004, members of the Laskhar-e-
Toiba reportedly barged into the house of
Ghulam Hussain at Malan Jablam area of
Mahore in Udhampur district and opened
indiscriminate fire, killing him, his sons
Mohammad Shafi and Zakir Hussain and
widowed daughter Khursheed Bano. They
were killed to allegedly avenge the
surrender before the security forces by
one of their family members, Mohammad
Rafiq, who was a LeT cadre. 87
Family members of the vigilante
group, Ikhwanis have also been targeted.
At around 9.30 pm on 15 November 2004,
a group of AOGs appeared at the house of
one Abdul Rashid Malik at Kawoosa
village in Budgam district and opened
indiscriminate firing killing six persons on
the spot. Of them, 4 were of a family and
2 were Ikhwanis. They then went to
another house, a few hundred metres away,
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