User talk:Darkness Shines/Rape in Jammu and Kashmir

During the Partition of India rape was an extensive issue. It is estimated that during the partition between 75,000 and 100,000 women were kidnapped and raped. The rape of Muslim women by Hindu males during this period is well documented, with women also being complicit in these attacks. As was the rape of Hindu women by Muslim males. According to Ritu Menon one of the reasons for these rapes was "an overt assertion of their identity and a simultaneous humiliation of the other by 'dishonouring' their women."