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Blindfolded, gangraped, cut with saw: US Congress hears tales of terror in Kashmir
New Delhi,UPDATED: Nov 16, 2019 23:35 IST
Columnist Sunanda Vashisht described in heartbreaking detail the horrors faced by Kashmiri Hindus in 1990, while testifying at a US Congressional hearing on human rights on Thursday.
She spoke of a young woman, a lab assistant in a school, who she said was "abducted, blindfolded, gangraped and cut into two halves on a mechanical saw while still alive".
Vashisht also spoke of the man's wife, who was forced to eat the blood-soaked rice.
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