Srinagar: Way back 22 years ago on this day the Children’s
park, in New Colony area of south Kashmir’s Bijbehara town, was turned
into a graveyard when bullet-riddled bodies of as many as 32 people,
including 25 teenage students had to be buried there.
The slain, all civilians, were killed in
the infamous Bijbehara Massacre of 1993, when Border Security Force
(BSF) personnel from 74 Battalion opened fire on unarmed demonstrators
protesting against the siege of Dargah in Hazratbal, Srinagar.
The number of dead remains disputed with
different national and International agencies putting the number
between 35 and 52. More than 200 others were injured during the firing,
leaving many of them handicapped for the rest of their life.
