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(NOTE: The article was published in the INDIA TODAY edition dated December 31, 1992)

Manjit Kaur is 18 years old.

Last month, she was rescued by a police party during a raid on a terrorist hideout. Pregnant and traumatised, the sobbing young girl spilled out her tragic story. For over six months, she had been the victim of a shocking and little publicised aspect of Punjab's Kalashnikov culture—sexual terrorism.

Manjit Kaur, as INDIA TODAY's investigations have revealed, is one of numerous young women in Punjab who have been abducted at gun-point, raped and then forced to marry terrorists merely to satisfy their sexual lust.

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Manjit Kaur's is a typical case. On the night of June 23, 1992, a gang of terrorists swooped on her father Joginder Singh' s secluded farmhouse in the Tarn Taran district and kidnapped her. For the next two weeks, she was subjected to sexual abuse by her ab