Mourning Over Empty Graves in Indian-controlled Kashmir. "Nobody knows why or how he joined the militants," Abdul Rashid Wani told us, his eyes welling up, while his wife silently brought in a tray of tea and biscuits. "Through appeals in the media, we.
Mourning Over Empty Graves in Indian-controlled Kashmir. "Nobody knows why or how he joined the militants," Abdul Rashid Wani told us, his eyes welling up, while his wife silently brought in a tray of tea and biscuits. "Through appeals in the media, we.
In conflicts in Lebanon, Israel, Gaza and Turkey, dead bodies have been used as leverage for years. Now, in Kashmir, India is instituting a similar strategy, halting the hand-over of militants' bodies to their families and burying them far away. Is this an historic counter-insurgency success, or collective, if not inhumane, punishment?