You must be little slow , if none of independent press is being allowed how are they reporting whatever they have done so far . Are you a ***** , what are police/army supposed to do when they are being pelted with stones.
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You must be little slow , if none of independent press is being allowed how are they reporting whatever they have done so far . Are you a ***** , what are police/army supposed to do when they are being pelted with stones.
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Sorry I don’t debate with scumbags.
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The voices of those Indians with a moral compass have been silenced.
On social media, I am not sure if it is BJP government sponsored fake accounts / bots, but I have never seen this level of disgusting posts in my life.
When stuff like Asia Bibi happened in Pakistan, there were those that had extremist views and wanted her executed. There were also those that were against her execution and wanted her release. The extremists were louder in voice, but the rational ones were greater in number and made their numbers count.
And Pakistan is labelled as an extremist nation.
India is supposed to be moderate, democratic, secular, and inclusive, at least that is what we heard for the last 30 years. For a while, I bought in to this idea, and thought yes Pakistan should try to be more like India in terms of inclusiveness of minorities and rule of law.
But turns out it was a facade. Video evidence of mob lynchings and people get declared innocent in courts. Literal terrorists and supporters of terrorists are in BJP government. Open talks of ethnic cleansing by politicians.
Makes me believe Pakistan shouldn't be more like India, they are not a benchmark by any means. In fact they look like they are going in the opposite direction.
I just don't understand it.
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You are absolutely right, the parents of the 5 year old/15 yo took their kids deliberately to areas where protests and stone throwing was happening so that they get their kids blinded to portray India in a bad light.
This is the logical explanation.
One could have understood if you were debunking these reports, I still don't want to believe these reports myself and am hoping this is just propaganda news spread by our neighbours. You on the other hand are arguing that this has happened but it's fault of the 5 year old..
Shameful creature, not even a human you are a creature
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I think one should have an open mind and think about if this happened to your own kids how would you feel? Therein lies the answer of how one should react.
No one should justify any 5 yo getting maimed or blinded by anyone. Whatever the circumstances are you just cannot justify it. I support our army whole heartedly for securing us and letting us sleep in peace at night. However, any kid/innocent being blinded is inexcusable and needs to be investigated and stopped immediately. One can also blame separatists, politicians from both sides over the years who have let this turmoil grow.
Regarding mob lynching, it's basically politics. In previous governments Muslim criminals used to carry out crimes against Hindus especially in states like UP, Bihar. Previous governments gave them a free rein. So that has built up years of animosity. Now even educated ones who were at the receiving end of the fear, feel it's alright with current status quo since all Muslims are same. They don't come out openly and say it, but they say it on social media or turn a blind eye when such cases happen.
Also recent cases like the Muslim family killing a Delhi engineer for dating their daughter doesn't help the cause. Two wrongs never make a right but such cases is used to spread further animosity against the entire community.
The case you are referring to will go to higher court and hopefully justice will be served there.
Regarding ethnic cleansing, don't worry that won't happen. Migrant workers from other state might settle down but that doesn't mean any systematic cleansing will happen. That is a propaganda spread by the other side. Both sides play propaganda wars to spread fear and turn people to their side.
And Pakistan or any country for that matter should follow countries like Iceland, Finland, Norway etc model where the citizens get all the rights. That should be how a country should strive to be.
You are absolutely right, the parents of the 5 year old/15 yo took their kids deliberately to areas where protests and stone throwing was happening so that they get their kids blinded to portray India in a bad light.
This is the logical explanation.
One could have understood if you were debunking these reports, I still don't want to believe these reports myself and am hoping this is just propaganda news spread by our neighbours. You on the other hand are arguing that this has happened but it's fault of the 5 year old..
Shameful creature, not even a human you are a creature
Are you an idiot, or have trouble comprehending english.I said it is responsibility of the parents to see their five year old does not get hurt.It is unfortunate that they got hurt.
I don't have to debunk any theories unlike you sitting in some cozy place, I have family and friends fighting for the country in Kashmir putting their lives at stakes.They don't go around trying to injure innocent kids and citizens.
You are first order m0ron stop giving lectures to others and do something for a change.
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Three victims with multiple pellets lodged in their torsos were at the second-floor room of a house where a young physiotherapist who had no training in treating such wounds was taking the pellets out. <br><br>“If we have to live here, we need to know how to do this,” he said.<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Kashmir?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Kashmir</a> <a href="https://t.co/86cIG6hZQw">pic.twitter.com/86cIG6hZQw</a></p>— Zeba Siddiqui (@zebatweets) <a href="https://twitter.com/zebatweets/status/1164113936041463808?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
<script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script><blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-conversation="none" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">At Srinagar’s Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital, I met an elderly man who lay staring at the ceiling, a part of his kurta soaked in blood. A shawl shop owner, Rasool was stepping out of his house when he was hit with at least 20 pellets, his son said.<a href="https://t.co/s9hCoyRn7M">https://t.co/s9hCoyRn7M</a></p>— Zeba Siddiqui (@zebatweets) <a href="https://twitter.com/zebatweets/status/1164114416515739648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 21, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Well for one thing, you could apologise..
Apologise for being a fascists extremist that you clearly are
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so you support whats happening in kashmir?
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whats unfortuante is that we have to put up with racist morons like you ona free forum. Im glad many of you tin pot chai wala racists have been exposed.
very easy to blame some body using these emotional words like facist, extremist etc etc .
The Government of India has amended a 'law'. That is for what they have been elected to rule at the first place by vast majority of almost 135 crores of people. Naturally they would make laws, modify existing laws, some times wholly reject outdated laws etc etc keeping in mind the well being of all the citizens of the nation as a whole.That being the case there is no need to initiate unnecessary problems at the first place for any body. Other than with a section of people in the 'Kashmir' region in India , no such unrest & incidents are happening as of now in any other region of India. That being the case, if such results are happening to only Kashmiri people, I can only naturally guess that the problem lies with them only.
If I give a cane to somebody to beat me badly & then cry after getting badly beaten... then I am sorry I won't blame the person who beat me.
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You didnt answer my question and just gave me a weird rant about "your" law. You are aware that the BJP ripped up your own constitution and literally spat on the democratic process by doing so?
now answer my question do you whole heatedly support the Indian governments actions in Kashmir..
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It is hurting me as a secular Indian to see this. I can only imagine how bad it must be for a Pakistani to see fellow Muslims being treated like this #Peace #Justice
It's unfortunate that there are very few indians, such as yourself, that will stand up for the suffering.
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Thank you for the kind words
As secular people of the world, we need to strive to make it a better place to love. I see that as our duty.
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Meet the amateur pellet doctors of Srinagar who treat protestors too scared to go to hospital
Ahmad, who lives in Srinagar’s Anchar locality, talks about pellet injuries with the air of an experienced surgeon.
“When pellets enter your body, you feel like everything inside you is burning,” said the 23-year-old, who did not want to reveal his full name. “The pellets are very hot when they are fired. They are very dangerous if they hit a person in the eyes or if they hit your body from a short distance. But if they hit your back or legs from a long distance, you can manage with basic first aid.”
Ahmad is not a doctor, not even a medical student. He studies commerce. But over the past few weeks, he has emerged as one of the many pellet experts in Anchar. Metal pellets, fired from shotguns, are commonly used by security forces to quell civilian protests in Kashmir.
Anchar, part of the larger Soura area in Srinagar, has been a hub of protest since August 5. That was when the Centre scrapped special status for Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370, split the state into two Union Territories and removed Article 35A, which empowered the state government to define “state subjects” and grant them specific rights.
Earlier this month, Asrar Ahmed Khan, a Class 11 student from Buchpora, an area bordering Soura, died of pellet injuries – although the local police insist he was hit by a stone. There have been several more injuries, which went unreported or unrecorded. In many cases, injured youth stayed away from hospitals for fear of arrest. According to local wisdom, police officers dressed as civilians have been deployed at hospitals to identify and arrest boys who took part in protests.
Cut off from hospitals, localities in Srinagar have devised their own ways of treating injuries.
‘War had broken out’
Anchar has seen protests after congregational prayers every Friday since special status was scrapped. The first of these Friday protests took place on August 9, when a procession emerging from Anchar made its way towards Srinagar’s downtown area. They were stopped midway, in Zoonimar, a locality on the outskirts of downtown.
“On August 9, at least 18 people were injured when forces shelled our procession near Zoonimar,” said another homegrown pellet remover, who did not want to be named. “They were immediately rushed to SKIMS. However, we got all of them home the same evening because we were sure that police will come looking for them.”
SKIMS, or the the Sheri-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, is one of the top hospitals in the Kashmir Valley. It is also in Soura, just half a kilometre away from Anchar.
The bigger emergency would come two weeks later. After August 9, residents of Anchar had dug up roads and barricaded their locality to prevent security forces from entering. For days, they had been kept at bay, prevented from carrying out night raids and arrests.
But on August 23, it seemed they would finally enter Anchar. Jammu and Kashmir Police forces and men from the Central Reserve Police Force had been deployed at the five barricaded entry points, residents recalled.
“It looked like war had broken out that day,” said Ahmad. “After prayers, clashes broke out across Anchar and boys tossed stones at the police and CRPF over the barricades. More than 200 were injured, including women, children and elderly people. A few boys took pellets in their eyes.”
The injured were gathered in a large hall in the local Jenaab Sahib shrine and treated there, Ahmad said. “The situation was worrying and some local boys managed to get a team of doctors to help us,” he said. “They were from health department. While they treated some serious cases, local boys like us managed less severe injuries. Except for a few boys who were injured in the eyes, nobody went to the hospital.”
A photojournalist who had taken videos of the hall on August 23 said he saw people lying in rows, small groups attending to each patient.
‘Blades and Dettol’
The pellet removers of Anchar have developed their own techniques to treat patients. Their surgical tools are rudimentary – blades and Dettol-soaked cotton.
“There are two ways to squeeze out a pellet from a human body,” said the pellet remover who did not want to be named. “If it’s closer to the upper layer of skin, one can just squeeze it out by pressing down on the skin at two ends of the wound. If a pellet has penetrated deep into the skin, we first use our fingertips to locate it. Then, we use a blade to cut open the skin near that spot and pull it out. After that, we wash the wound with Dettol-soaked cotton and that’s it. Remember, all of this happens without any local anesthesia. And it takes a lot of time.”
Since August 5, local residents say, more than 300 injured people have been treated this way. The pellet removers have had some practice in earlier seasons of protest. In 2016, for instance, hundreds were injured by pellets after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani triggered mass protests. “During the 2016 Burhan Wani uprising I treated 15 to 16 boys on my own,” said Ahmad. Some of his friends also became skilled pellet removers that year, he said.
With the fear of arrest keeping people away from hospitals, residents of Anchar have come to depend on homegrown remedies for common ailments as well.
“From typhoid to a cough, we treat everyone on our own,” said one elderly resident of Anchar. “The maximum healthcare we are able to get inside Anchar are from local compounders and pharmacists. Nobody dares to leave Anchar.”
Residents allege the local police make no difference between protestors and civilians going about their daily lives. On September 14, women from Anchar held a demonstration outside the Soura police station. They were protesting against the alleged detention of a young woman. According to local residents, she had gone to buy medicines from Soura’s main market when she was arrested.
A police official at the Soura police station said the woman had been asking fruit vendors in Soura main market to shut shop but denied that she had been arrested. Calls for a civil shutdown to protest against the August 5 decisions have spread across the Valley. In some cases, gunmen have attacked traders who did not follow the shutdown.
Cycle spokes for needles
In the Shia-dominated Zadibal area of downtown Srinagar, the Hussaini Relief Committee, a volunteer organisation, has been hard at work the last few weeks. Founded in 1972, the committee usually holds medical camps before religious festivals and occasions. Traditionally, they are busiest on Ashura, the 10th day of Muharram, the month of mourning for Shia Muslims. The day is usually marked by self-flagellation rituals.
This year, Ashura was observed on September 10. Like every year, the committee had arranged a medical and blood donation camp that day. “The medical camp is presided over by volunteer doctors and people from other walks of life,” said a volunteer who did not want to be identified. “From immediate medical care to mourners to ensuring water for those taking part in processions, our team of 300 volunteers tries to help everyone.”
This year, volunteers at the camp had to deal with a different sort of injury. On September 7, Jammu and Kashmir government had banned all Muharram processions, even minor ones. According to residents of Zadibal, when mourners tried to defy the restrictions, they were showered with pellets.
“Muharram processions in Kashmir have been banned for decades,” said the volunteer., “But this year, the government didn’t even allow small processions within the interiors of our locality. Instead, they fired pellets on a peaceful procession.”
According to volunteers at the Hussaini Relief Committee, more than 100 patients with pellet injuries turned up at the Zadibal camp on September 10. This included women and aged people, they said. “This never happened even at the height of the militancy in the 1990s,” said the volunteer.
With resources stretched at the Zadibal camp this year, even volunteers with no medical training had to pitch in. “When there was a huge rush of injured, we panicked,” said one volunteer. “Our volunteer doctors were doing their best to give medical attention to the injured but we were totally outnumbered. It was then that I brought the steel spoke of a cycle wheel and beat one side into a point. After that, I heated up the pointed end with a cigarette lighter to sterilise it. I used it to take out pellets from more than a dozen injured.”
According to him, the injured were were scared to go to hospitals because all exits from Zadibal were sealed by the police and CRPF. “If they got hold of an injured person, the police and CRPF personnel would have beaten them up,” he claimed.
A medical warning
While many see no option but to get their wounds treated by amateur pellet removers, doctors in Kashmir warn of the dangers of such treatments – from skin damage to infections to the damage of vital organs.
“Usually, we don’t take out pellets from a patient’s body if he has been hit in the back and legs,” said a senior surgeon at the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital in Srinagar. “Because that means we have to make as many incisions as there are pellets in the patient’s body. Our priority is to monitor the patient if he’s been hit by pellets around vital organs like the kidneys, intestines or liver. If the pellets have perforated deep into the skin, we monitor the patient to check that they are not affecting the functioning of these vital organs.”
The initial treatment must be followed by a course of antibiotics, he continued. “Since pellets are foreign objects, antibiotics become essential,” the surgeon said. “Normally, we avoid taking out every pellet from the body because the presence of these iron particles inside the skin is not dangerous.”
Human rights activists in Kashmir point out that cutting off the injured from proper medical aid amounts to a violation of international humanitarian laws outlined in the Geneva Conventions.
Every injured person, even if he is a member of an armed group, has the right to medical aid “without any adverse distinction founded on sex, race, nationality, religion, political opinions, or any other similar criteria,” says Article 12 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. India was among the countries which ratified the conventions.
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Ahmad, who lives in Srinagar’s Anchar locality, talks about pellet injuries with the air of an experienced surgeon.
“When pellets enter your body, you feel like everything inside you is burning,” said the 23-year-old, who did not want to reveal his full name. “The pellets are very hot when they are fired. They are very dangerous if they hit a person in the eyes or if they hit your body from a short distance. But if they hit your back or legs from a long distance, you can manage with basic first aid.”
Ahmad is not a doctor, not even a medical student. He studies commerce. But over the past few weeks, he has emerged as one of the many pellet experts in Anchar. Metal pellets, fired from shotguns, are commonly used by security forces to quell civilian protests in Kashmir.
Anchar, part of the larger Soura area in Srinagar, has been a hub of protest since August 5. That was when the Centre scrapped special status for Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370, split the state into two Union Territories and removed Article 35A, which empowered the state government to define “state subjects” and grant them specific rights.
Earlier this month, Asrar Ahmed Khan, a Class 11 student from Buchpora, an area bordering Soura, died of pellet injuries – although the local police insist he was hit by a stone. There have been several more injuries, which went unreported or unrecorded. In many cases, injured youth stayed away from hospitals for fear of arrest. According to local wisdom, police officers dressed as civilians have been deployed at hospitals to identify and arrest boys who took part in protests.
Cut off from hospitals, localities in Srinagar have devised their own ways of treating injuries.
‘War had broken out’
Anchar has seen protests after congregational prayers every Friday since special status was scrapped. The first of these Friday protests took place on August 9, when a procession emerging from Anchar made its way towards Srinagar’s downtown area. They were stopped midway, in Zoonimar, a locality on the outskirts of downtown.
“On August 9, at least 18 people were injured when forces shelled our procession near Zoonimar,” said another homegrown pellet remover, who did not want to be named. “They were immediately rushed to SKIMS. However, we got all of them home the same evening because we were sure that police will come looking for them.”
SKIMS, or the the Sheri-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, is one of the top hospitals in the Kashmir Valley. It is also in Soura, just half a kilometre away from Anchar.
The bigger emergency would come two weeks later. After August 9, residents of Anchar had dug up roads and barricaded their locality to prevent security forces from entering. For days, they had been kept at bay, prevented from carrying out night raids and arrests.
But on August 23, it seemed they would finally enter Anchar. Jammu and Kashmir Police forces and men from the Central Reserve Police Force had been deployed at the five barricaded entry points, residents recalled.
“It looked like war had broken out that day,” said Ahmad. “After prayers, clashes broke out across Anchar and boys tossed stones at the police and CRPF over the barricades. More than 200 were injured, including women, children and elderly people. A few boys took pellets in their eyes.”
The injured were gathered in a large hall in the local Jenaab Sahib shrine and treated there, Ahmad said. “The situation was worrying and some local boys managed to get a team of doctors to help us,” he said. “They were from health department. While they treated some serious cases, local boys like us managed less severe injuries. Except for a few boys who were injured in the eyes, nobody went to the hospital.”
A photojournalist who had taken videos of the hall on August 23 said he saw people lying in rows, small groups attending to each patient.
‘Blades and Dettol’
The pellet removers of Anchar have developed their own techniques to treat patients. Their surgical tools are rudimentary – blades and Dettol-soaked cotton.
“There are two ways to squeeze out a pellet from a human body,” said the pellet remover who did not want to be named. “If it’s closer to the upper layer of skin, one can just squeeze it out by pressing down on the skin at two ends of the wound. If a pellet has penetrated deep into the skin, we first use our fingertips to locate it. Then, we use a blade to cut open the skin near that spot and pull it out. After that, we wash the wound with Dettol-soaked cotton and that’s it. Remember, all of this happens without any local anesthesia. And it takes a lot of time.”
Since August 5, local residents say, more than 300 injured people have been treated this way. The pellet removers have had some practice in earlier seasons of protest. In 2016, for instance, hundreds were injured by pellets after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani triggered mass protests. “During the 2016 Burhan Wani uprising I treated 15 to 16 boys on my own,” said Ahmad. Some of his friends also became skilled pellet removers that year, he said.
With the fear of arrest keeping people away from hospitals, residents of Anchar have come to depend on homegrown remedies for common ailments as well.
“From typhoid to a cough, we treat everyone on our own,” said one elderly resident of Anchar. “The maximum healthcare we are able to get inside Anchar are from local compounders and pharmacists. Nobody dares to leave Anchar.”
Residents allege the local police make no difference between protestors and civilians going about their daily lives. On September 14, women from Anchar held a demonstration outside the Soura police station. They were protesting against the alleged detention of a young woman. According to local residents, she had gone to buy medicines from Soura’s main market when she was arrested.
A police official at the Soura police station said the woman had been asking fruit vendors in Soura main market to shut shop but denied that she had been arrested. Calls for a civil shutdown to protest against the August 5 decisions have spread across the Valley. In some cases, gunmen have attacked traders who did not follow the shutdown.
Cycle spokes for needles
In the Shia-dominated Zadibal area of downtown Srinagar, the Hussaini Relief Committee, a volunteer organisation, has been hard at work the last few weeks. Founded in 1972, the committee usually holds medical camps before religious festivals and occasions. Traditionally, they are busiest on Ashura, the 10th day of Muharram, the month of mourning for Shia Muslims. The day is usually marked by self-flagellation rituals.
This year, Ashura was observed on September 10. Like every year, the committee had arranged a medical and blood donation camp that day. “The medical camp is presided over by volunteer doctors and people from other walks of life,” said a volunteer who did not want to be identified. “From immediate medical care to mourners to ensuring water for those taking part in processions, our team of 300 volunteers tries to help everyone.”
This year, volunteers at the camp had to deal with a different sort of injury. On September 7, Jammu and Kashmir government had banned all Muharram processions, even minor ones. According to residents of Zadibal, when mourners tried to defy the restrictions, they were showered with pellets.
“Muharram processions in Kashmir have been banned for decades,” said the volunteer., “But this year, the government didn’t even allow small processions within the interiors of our locality. Instead, they fired pellets on a peaceful procession.”
According to volunteers at the Hussaini Relief Committee, more than 100 patients with pellet injuries turned up at the Zadibal camp on September 10. This included women and aged people, they said. “This never happened even at the height of the militancy in the 1990s,” said the volunteer.
With resources stretched at the Zadibal camp this year, even volunteers with no medical training had to pitch in. “When there was a huge rush of injured, we panicked,” said one volunteer. “Our volunteer doctors were doing their best to give medical attention to the injured but we were totally outnumbered. It was then that I brought the steel spoke of a cycle wheel and beat one side into a point. After that, I heated up the pointed end with a cigarette lighter to sterilise it. I used it to take out pellets from more than a dozen injured.”
According to him, the injured were were scared to go to hospitals because all exits from Zadibal were sealed by the police and CRPF. “If they got hold of an injured person, the police and CRPF personnel would have beaten them up,” he claimed.
A medical warning
While many see no option but to get their wounds treated by amateur pellet removers, doctors in Kashmir warn of the dangers of such treatments – from skin damage to infections to the damage of vital organs.
“Usually, we don’t take out pellets from a patient’s body if he has been hit in the back and legs,” said a senior surgeon at the Shri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital in Srinagar. “Because that means we have to make as many incisions as there are pellets in the patient’s body. Our priority is to monitor the patient if he’s been hit by pellets around vital organs like the kidneys, intestines or liver. If the pellets have perforated deep into the skin, we monitor the patient to check that they are not affecting the functioning of these vital organs.”
The initial treatment must be followed by a course of antibiotics, he continued. “Since pellets are foreign objects, antibiotics become essential,” the surgeon said. “Normally, we avoid taking out every pellet from the body because the presence of these iron particles inside the skin is not dangerous.”
Human rights activists in Kashmir point out that cutting off the injured from proper medical aid amounts to a violation of international humanitarian laws outlined in the Geneva Conventions.
Every injured person, even if he is a member of an armed group, has the right to medical aid “without any adverse distinction founded on sex, race, nationality, religion, political opinions, or any other similar criteria,” says Article 12 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions. India was among the countries which ratified the conventions.
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I look and watch all that is happening in Indian Kashmir and cant help but wonder how these muslim Kashmiri's wasted living under the umbrella of that diabolical article 370. They could have have gone to mainland India to make their money, buy land there or promote their own employment/business etc in Kashmir where no one from mainland India would have been able to buy any property or land. However they had to ignore all the benefits that were laid out to them on a royal platter and choose Wahabi Islamic fundamentalism, which led to the removal of article 370.. Well I hope they are happy now, because if they don't shape up, they are in for an eternal butt whooping, all the Pakistani moral support on message boards or crying fake tears in front of the UN wont change a damn thing..... This is a lesson for people in general, don't dirty your dinner table...
Wahabi Islamic fundamentalism is a curse will lead you into the gutter, it has no place in today's world....
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In my opinion it's official, India is a terrorist state, led by a terrorist
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Yeah.
UN designated terrorists roam around in India doing rallies and public addresses and that too with police protection.
Last time I checked, an elected RSS/BJP goons were telling minorities to be subservient or else.
Last time I checked, RSS/BJP needed over 1 M occupying army to keep Kashmiri on lock down against their own wish, blind them, rape female, indiscriminately arrest anyone while depriving of basic necessities.
I guess Indian elect radicalizes religious extremists.
And whats up with, Kashmiri would have been better off if they has become subservient to Hindu raj. lol
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Are there any RSS slash BJP "goons" who got designated as Terrorists by the UN ?
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As if UN has a set criteria who is terrorist and who isn't.
RSS/BJP goon has money to offer.
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As if UN has a set criteria who is terrorist and who isn't.
RSS/BJP goon has Indian's money to offer, which most Indians gladly pay because some how Hindu raj is coming back to India.
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UN is the highest governing body in the world.
I'll believe them over some random online nobody.
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Never asked you to believe anyone online nor assumed you would.
But one can easily believe everything about RSS/BJP because of what they have spoke about during campaigning and after getting elected, and that narrative is most highlighted in Indian media because it is easily sold to Indians.
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I don't care what they spoke during campaign. BJP has many leaders who are dumb as ducks. So, you will get a few stupid statements here and there. Even more during election campaigns. Don't how this makes them a terrorist.
Inciting violence in the name of religion and politics.
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