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In new revelations of WikiLeaks, Indian torture upon innocent Kashmiri civilians have been exposed.According to WikiLeaks, India used to torture imprisoned persons in the Indian held Kashmir. The US officials in Delhi were privately briefed by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in 2005 that Indian security forces were using methods including electrocution, physical beatings and sexual interference against hundreds of detainees. In a detailed report back to Washington they recorded the view of the ICRC that India condones torture and that the detainees were not Islamist insurgents or Pakistani-backed militants, who were routinely killed. Instead, they were civilians connected to or believed to have information about the insurgency. According to the cables, which will prove a major embarrassment for the Indian government, the ICRC interviewed 1,296 detainees of whom 681 said they had been tortured. Of those, 498 claimed to have been electrocuted, 381 said they were suspended from the ceiling, and 304 cases were described as sexual. A total of 294 described a procedure in which guards crushed their legs by putting a bar across their thighs and sitting on it, while 181 said their legs had been pulled apart into the splits. Ten years ago, there were ten torture cells in India. Red Cross was not even given permission to visit the deadliest torture cell Cargo Building in Srinagar. WikiLeaks have also revealed that according to Congress representative Rahul Gandhi, Hindu extremists are more dangerous than Muslim extremists.
