village by the lashkar-e-taiba militants, and forced to marry one of them. she was gang-raped by her "husband" and his militant friends. indian security forces jamir qadeem (1990): on 26 june 1990, a twenty-four-year-old woman from jamir qadeem was raped during a search of her neighbourhood by the bsf. police in sopore registered a case against the bsf in july of that year. chhanpora (1990): on 7 march, crpf raided several houses in the chhanpora locality of srinagar. during the raids a number of women were raped. the 'committee for initiative in kashmir' which visited the valley between 12 and 16 march 1990 interviewed the victims. rape victim noora (24) was forcefully dragged out of her kitchen by 20 men from the crpf and raped, along with her sister-in-law zaina. the rape victims also witnessed two minor girls being molested. barbar shah (1991): a mentally ill old woman was raped by security forces in srinagar. kunan poshpora (1991): on 23 february 1991, a unit of the indian army launched a search and interrogation operation in the twin villages of kunan poshpora, in the valley's kupwara district. soldiers repeatedly gang-raped many women, with estimates of the number of victims ranging from 23 to 100. pazipora-ballipora (1991): on 20 august 1991, soldiers carried out mass rape in this hamlet, which is only a few kilometres away from kunan poshpora. the number of rape victims in this case varied between eight and fifteen or more. chak saidpora (1992): on 10 october 1992, an army unit of the 22nd grenadiers entered the village of chak saidapora. several army soldiers gang-raped between six and nine women, including an 11-year-old girl and a 60-year-old woman. haran (1992): on 20 july 1992 women were raped during an army search operation. one victim, interviewed by asia watch and phr, reported being gang-raped by two soldiers in turns. another victim in the same incident was raped by a sikh soldier while another stood guard. gurihakhar (1992): on 1 october 1992, after killing ten people in the hamlet of bakhikar, bsf forces entered the nearby village of gurihakhar and raped women. one woman, interviewed by asia watch, tried to hide her daughter's identity as a rape victim by describing herself as the rape victim, to protect her daughter from public humiliation. bijbehara (1993): before the bijbehara massacre there was a large incident of molestation and gang rape in bijbehara, which elders hushed up due to fear it would bring shame to the families of rape victims. later, in august, army men raped a woman in gadhangipora, on the outskirts of bijbehara town, in retaliation for an attack by militants. hyhama (1994): on 17 june 1994, seven women were raped by troops of rashtriya rifles, including two officers major ramesh and raj kumar in the village hyhama. sheikhpora incident (1994): a 60-year-old woman was raped while men of her family were locked away. kangan (1994): a woman and her 12-year-old daughter were raped by indian security forces at theno budapathary. wurwun (1995): on 30 december 1995, soldiers from the rashtriya rifles entered a house in wurwun village, district pulwama, and sexually assaulted and attempted to rape three women. narbal pingalgom (1997): a girl was raped in pulwama in november 1997. srinagar (1997): on 13 april 1997, indian troops stripped naked and gang raped twelve young kashmiri girls near srinagar. wavoosa (1997): on 22 april 1997, several indian armed forces personnel entered the house of a 32-year-old woman in the village of wavoosa. they molested her 12-year-old daughter and raped three other daughters, aged 14, 16 and 18. another woman was beaten for preventing the rape of her daughters by soldiers. doda (1998): a fifty-year-old resident of the village ludna in doda district told human rights watch that on 5 october 1998 the eighth rashtriya rifles came to her house, took her and beat her. she was then raped by a captain who was a hindu and said to her: "you are muslims, and you will all be treated like this." bihota (2000): on 29 october 2000, there was a cordon and search operation in bihota by the 15 bihar regiment. during which one woman was picked up and taken away to a camp. the following day twenty women went along with a few men to get the woman released. however, the women were detained for four to five hours and sexually assaulted. zero bridge (2004): four security personnel raped a 21-year-old woman in a guest house on 28 october. handwara incident (2004): a mother and her daughter were raped in baderpayeen, handwara on 6 november. according to khurram parvez, programme coordinator of the jammu and kashmir coalition of civil society, officers implied that this should not be an issue since the alleged rapist was a muslim, major rahman hussain. he was later convicted for transgression into civilian property instead of rape. shopian (2009): two women, asiya and nelofar jan, were allegedly abducted, raped and murdered by indian troops between 29 and 30 may at bongam in kashmir's shopian district.