On the eve of women's day screening a film. 'Ocean of Tears' is a 2012 Kashmiri short documentary film directed by Bilal A Jan. The documentary depicts the sufferings of Kashmiri women in the course of the turbulence of the past two decades. It features the plight of the women of Kunan Poshpora - victims of the 1991 mass rape by the army, and those of the families of the hundreds of missing people, besides other excesses.

The Kunan Poshspora incident occurred on February 23, 1991, when units of the Indian army launched a search and interrogation operation in the village of Kunan Poshpora, located in Kashmir's remote Kupwara District. In the name of search and interrogation, more than 50 women were raped and tortured. However, Human Rights organizations have reported that the number of raped women could be as high as 100. Its been 24 years since the incident transpired but justice still evades the survivors of the mass rape.

Screening will commence at 5 PM which will be followed by discussion of the movie and human rights violations happening due to decades of structural sexual violence in Kashmir.

Enrty - Free