Amiya Rao, a known Delhi based human rights activist, commented on the PCI report saying: ““The PCI report amounts to disinformation in every sphere, omissions and twisting of vital facts and painful denigration of the women of Kashmir, It looks as if the report has been written by a member of the armed forces.”
We condemn the PCI report, he said, not only because it is a tissue of half-truths and untruths but because in its zeal to whitewash the Army it has humiliated alt women,
The Coordination Committee on Kashmir, representing 16 organisations, dubbed as highly misleading and one sided the PCI report which exonerated the army of all charges in Poshpora outrage case,
Justice V.M. Tarkunde accused the Press Council committee of drawing its conclusions on limited investigations. He said its main source of information was government agencies which could have twisted facts t0 suit their convenience. He also alleged that the PCI committee simply ignored the existence of the earlier reports of the human rights organization and refused even to meet or consult any of the known activists who worked on these reports,
The PHRO team visited Kunan Poshpora village on September 1718 they met dozens of persons including rape victims and recorded their statements. They were accompanied by a local guide, Ghulam Rasul, who also acted as translators.
Ghulam MohiUddin, a Head Teacher in Trehgam school and resident of the village, in his statement on oath before the PHRO team said, “B.G. Verghese was a biased journalist who along with one K. Vikram Rao had come to the village simply to suppress the inhuman sexual assault by the Indian Army on the Muslim women folk. The PCI team stayed in the village for about 15 minutes while they were for more than 24 hours with army officials in the Trehgam military camp.”
Article extracted from this publication >> March 20, 1992
