This document relates the testimony of Masroof Sultan, a 19-year-old college student from Batamaloo, who survived brutal torture and three attempts to shoot him by the paramilitary Border Security Force. He was taken into custody on 8 April 1993 when the bus he was travelling on was stopped and searched. After being beaten together with three other young men by four soldiers, he was then taken to Papa II, an interrogation centre near Srinagar. After being tortured there, he was allegedly taken by jeep to a place where he was shot three times, first in the legs, then in the chest, and finally in the neck. He survived by pretending to be dead, but believes that three other men were killed near the same spot, although their bodies have not been found.
