In Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir, the 33rd anniversary of one of the most horrific war crimes, the Bijbehara massacre, is being observed today.

According to Kashmir Media Service, on this day in 1993, the Indian Army opened indiscriminate fire on peaceful protesters in the Bijbehara area of Islamabad district who were demonstrating against the military siege of the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar.

More than fifty civilians, mostly students and teenagers, were martyred on the spot in this incident.