On 1st April 1993 Dr Abdul Ahad Guru, a surgeon at the Institute of Medical sciences in Soura,Srinagar
and an dedicated supporter of the Kashmir independence cause was found shot.

Dr Guru was one of the many people who were vocal in raising concern about reported grave human rights violations in Kashmir.
Dr Guru frequently underlined the cases of brutal torture treated in his hospital.He often met journalists and members of human rights organizations

which included emassaries from Amnesty International to whom he described methods of apparently routine torture used by the security forces which often resulted in acute renal failure.

Ashiq Hussain,Dr Guru's brother-in-law, was also killed on 1 April when police opened fire on mourners in Dr Guru's funeral procession who argued with members of the security forces
about the maximum number of people allowed to participate in the process.