The long struggle of Kashmiris against occupational violence is an everyday reality in the valley. Violence has served as a tool to affirm power and increasingly, women have become a medium through which the armed forces assert their authority and inflict human rights abuses. In light of this, HRLN’s Kashmir Unit conducts a fact-finding into the issue of rape by the armed forces in Kashmir. Taking the lead from the shocking incidents of rape in the Kupwara and Shopian districts, the fact-finding illuminates how conflict has turned women’s bodies and lives into boundary markers and thus, sites of violence, contestation and resistance.