Women's Voices of Resistance in Kashmir, Book Design/Cover Design/Cover Drawing
ZULM ZAKHM AZADI (Oppression, Wounds, Freedom): It is impossible for the women of Kashmir to speak about the Indian occupation without using these three words. On 5 August 2019, as India laid siege to Kashmir under the garb of a parliamentary exercise, a people under military occupation mourned the lost promise of democracy once again, and prepared for a long, uncertain period of silence under the barrel of the gun. Confined to their own homes and neighbourhoods, separated from loved ones, cut off from the world and seemingly, from each other, the people continue to resist. Our journey into four districts over five days in September records a story of immeasurable pain, loss, and fear. Their fight for freedom and accountability from the Indian state is being crushed through torture, arbitrary detentions, sexual violence, enforced disappearances, and
a regime of terror on their own land. Today, as their demands for self-determination are silenced with fresh brutality, voices and actions of solidarity for the struggle of the people of Jammu and Kashmir have to grow and be heard too.
a regime of terror on their own land. Today, as their demands for self-determination are silenced with fresh brutality, voices and actions of solidarity for the struggle of the people of Jammu and Kashmir have to grow and be heard too.
WOMEN AGAINST SEXUAL VIOLENCE AND STATE REPRESSION (WSS) is a non-funded grassroots effort initiated in November 2009, to challenge and put an end to the violence being perpetrated upon the bodies of women, transpersons, our communities and societies. We are a nationwide network of people from diverse political and social movements comprising women’s organisations, mass organisations, civil liberties, student and youth organisations, mass movements and individuals. We unequivocally condemn repression and sexual violence on women and transpersons by any perpetrator(s).