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SRINAGAR: The three youths killed in an anti-terror operation at Lawaypora on Srinagar’s outskirts on December 30 were “active terrorists” and in constant touch with their mentors in Pakistan, IGP (Kashmir Range) Vijay Kumar said on Friday, refuting their kins’ claim that they were shot dead in a “fake encounter”.
Aijaz Maqbool Ganai of Pulwama and Ather Mushtaq Wani and Zubair Ahmad Lone from Shopian were slain by security forces during the course of a two-day encounter. While police identified them as Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists, their families accused security forces of stage-managing the operation and claimed the three were “innocent”.
“Whatever their families have claimed so far is baseless and wrong. All three were in touch and travelling together on the day of the encounter. IP addresses recovered from their damaged mobile phones indicated that two of them were talking to people across the border while the third was in touch with top commanders in Pakistan
Families of Kashmiri youth martyred in fake encounter speak out on international media for justice
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Families of Kashmiri youth martyred in fake encounter speak out on international media
SRINAGAR (Web Desk) – The families of three young Kashmiri boys martyred by Indian forces in fake encounter have spoken to international media, insisting that their children were murdered in a staged gunfight.
As per the documentary compiled by Al Jazeera, father of martyr Ather Mushtaq Wani said, “When I returned home, I couldn’t find myself at peace.” I went to ancestral graveyard and dug an empty grave. The villagers opposed this idea and said it won’t be the right thing, he added.
A BEREAVED Kashmiri family has appealed to Indian forces to return the body of their teenage son, who was shot dead in suspicious circumstances last week and is alleged to have been executed.
Mushtaq Ahmed Wani, whose 16-year-old son Ather Mushtaq Wani was one of three people killed by Indian forces on December 30, said that he wants to be able to bury the boy.
“I want my son’s body,” he told onlookers while digging a grave. “I ask India to return my son’s dead body to me.”
Indian authorities insist that Mr Wani and his associates were part of an armed militia planning a major operation and were shot in an ensuing gun battle after rejecting calls to surrender.