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Pellet gun victim devotes life to helping other sufferers

Pellet guns were first time used by occupation forces in Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir to disperse street protests in 2010

Birdshot Blinds Hundreds in Kashmir

Asia Sentinel Covid pandemic, frequent lockdowns worsen the plight of pellet victims 12 hr ago By: Majid Maqbool Mohammad Ashraf Wani, from south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, was 25 when he was hit in the face by pellets fired by government forces outside his home during a protest following the killing of militant commander Burhan Wani in 2016. Having undergone multiple corrective surgeries over the years, Ashraf, who is now 31 can see just a little but only from his left eye. Every time he looks in the mirror, he says he cannot recognize himself. Ashraf is one of the thousands of Kashmiris who have been injured by Indian security forces who typically use 12-page pump-action shotguns to fire cartridges filled with dozens or hundreds of the small metal pellets, sometimes called birdshot or dove shot. Initially concentrated in tight patterns when fired, they disperse to reach a wide radius, causing indiscriminate injuries, often to bystanders.

SAMAA - Marriage out of sight for Kashmir s pellet gun victims

Marriage out of sight for Kashmir’s pellet gun victims Losing their eyesight is the start of their problems SAMAA | Web desk - Posted: Dec 28, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago SAMAA | Web desk Posted: Dec 28, 2020 | Last Updated: 3 months ago Photo: AFP Listen to the story Losing your eyesight can be traumatic enough, but it can also result in losing your prospective spouse. Twenty-six-year-old Manzoor Ahmad Dar hides that he is blind in one eye because his long-term girlfriend left him over it in 2019. Today, when families visit his home in Indian Occupied Kashmir’s Pulwama district to verify his background, he does not tell them that his vision is impaired.

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