Summary Hurriyet leaders have extended the strike call till September 8.
SRINAGAR (Dunya News) - In occupied Kashmir, Indian troops in their unabated acts of state terrorism martyred atleast 38 Kashmiris including11 teenage boys and a woman during the last month of August.
According to the data issued by the Research Section of Kashmir Media Service in Thursday, one of those martyred was killed in custody while 23 civilians were killed during indiscriminate firing on mourners and protesters. These killings rendered four women widowed and seven children orphaned.
During the month, atleast 4,959 people were critically injured when Indian police and paramilitary personnel used brute force and fired pallets and teargas shells on peaceful demonstrators in the occupied territory while 777 civilians, mostly youth and Hurriyet activists were arrested.
The troops barged into the houses and molested or disgraced atleast 150 women and damaged 190 houses during the period.
Hurriyet leaders have extended the strike call till September 8.
Occupied Kashmir has been reeling from almost daily protests since the extra-judicial murder of a popular leader, Burhan Wani, on July 8 by Indian troops.
Authorities lifted a curfew in most parts of the territory on Monday, but schools, shops and most banks remain shut and mobile internet services are still suspended.
Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since the two gained independence from British rule in 1947. Both claim the territory in full.
Several freedom fighting groups have for decades fought Indian soldiers -- currently numbering around 500,000 -- deployed in the territory. They demand independence for the region or its merger with Pakistan.
Tens of thousands of people, mostly civilians, have died in the fighting.
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