MHA Divulges Figures Under RTI
UMER MAQBOOL
GREATER KASHMIR
Srinagar, Sep 18: J&K has witnessed more than 68,000 incidents of violence in the past 22 years, according to the details furnished by the Ministry of Home Affairs. This means that the stat would each day witness eight incidents of violence.
The details furnished by the MHA reveal that the State has witnessed 68,708 militancy related incidents from 1990 to July 2012.
The details have come to fore in response to an application filed by a Jammu-based activist Raman Sharma under the Central Right to Information Act -2005. The conflict, which gripped the state in 1990, has devoured thousands of civilians, militants and force personnel besides leaving hundreds maimed.
According to the information, the State has recorded highest incidents of violence in 1995 (5,938) followed by 1994 and 1993 (5,829 and 5,247 incidents respectively).
The State has, however, witnessed decline in violence after 1996 with the number of militancy related incidents being 2900-3400 between 1997 to 2000.
But thereafter the violence has witnessed upswing with the year 2001 and 2002 recording 4,522 and 4,038 such incidents. According to details, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2005, 2006 and 2007 respectively recorded 3401 , 2565, 1990, 1667 and 1092 incidents of violence. But, down the line, the number of such incidents has remained in three digits with first seven month of this year recording only 133 incidents. In 2008 the number of incidents reported is 708 and in the following three years, 499, 488 and 340 incidents were witnessed in the state. Pertinently that State Home Department in July this year claimed that 43,000 persons including 16000 civilians were killed in the conflict since 1990. http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/2012/Sep/19/-68-000-incidents-of-violence-in-22-years--53.asp
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