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.
Families of militants killed by Indian forces are decrying a ban on returning the bodies. Authorities have cited COVID-19 and fears of new recruitment as reasons for burying those killed in remote border areas.
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?
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April 11, 2021 By Hassan
Srinagar, April 11 (KG): Indian troops killed 12 more Kashmiri youth over the past 72 hours in the occupied Kashmir. Three youth were slain by the troops in Hadipora area of Shopian and two in Bijbehara area of Islamabad district, today. Earlier, the troops killed seven youth in separate cordon and search operations in Shopian […]
April 11, 2021 By Hassan
The anti-terror law is being frequently invoked against protestors. Few are willing to speak about it. Safwat Zargar Srinagar, April 10: On the morning of February 5, a grieving father led a protest march through a village in Kashmir’s Pulwama district, asking for his teenage son’s body. The police claimed 16-year-old Ather Mushtaq was among […]