The image of a Kashmiri child sitting on the body of his grandfather has once exposed the barbarity of security forces operating in the disputed territory with immunity.
The three-year-old child told upon questioning that his father was killed by the police. The police, as usual, denied. And the BJP extremists allied with the Indian Government celebrated the extrajudicial killing.
Outside of the disputed Kashmir territory it was Pakistan, where officials and media said the heartbreaking incident should rouse the world conscience about the suffering of Kashmiri people.
Pakistan and India partly control the Himalayan territory – recognized as disputed by the United Nations. Since August 5, 2019 Indian says it has absorbed the part it administered as a territory of the Indian Union. Pakistan and the United Nations have refused to accepted the Indian claim.
When asked what happened to ‘papa’, which is what he calls his grandfather, AB said “goli mari” (he was shot).
By whom, he replied “Police wale ne” (by the police).https://t.co/02LwtlKMeI
— The Wire (@thewire_in) July 2, 2020
Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that the barbarism of Indian occupation forces in Kashmir has reached new peaks with the cold blooded killing of a 3 year old child’s grandfather right in front of his eyes.
“This level of barbarism is unparalleled and the incident falls under the ever-growing list of extrajudicial killings in the valley,” Qureshi said in a statement issued on Wednesday.
He said that the European Union has been apprised of the situation and it should take immediate notice of the incident.
Pakistan, he said, will continue to raise its voice on atrocities in Kashmir, including this incident, at every forum.
Qureshi said New Delhi has shut down the Internet access for the Kashmiris to muzzle their voices and to cover up its terror activities and extra-judicial killings. He also stressed on human rights organizations to speak out for the oppressed Kashmiris for the sake of humanity.
The grieving family of the 65-year-old Kashmir person killed in Sopore district on Wednesday said that Bashir Ahmad Khan was killed by the Indian forces personnel and not by the Kashmiri freedom fighters as claimed by the Indian government.
There's so much that can be said about the horrific image from Kashmir, of a man lying dead with his small grandchild seated on top of him. But what matters the most is simple: Yet another person has been killed, and yet another child will be traumatized for life.
— Michael Kugelman (@MichaelKugelman) July 1, 2020
Several pictures of the killed civilian and his three-year-old grandson went viral on social media and evoked a sense of outrage over the incident.
A video shows the wife of the killed civilian, alleging that the Government forces placed the child on the civilian’s body. “They killed him and then kept his three-year-old grandson on his body,” the wife of the killed man can be heard saying in video, as she is consoled by mourning women at her house. “The child’s clothes are soaked with his grandpa’s blood. He was not a militant. He was a petty employee.”
In Srinagar, the daughter of the killed man told Kashmiri website The Kashmir Walla that her father was brought down from the car and shot dead.
“Kill the one who shot dead my father, imagine the plight of my three-year-old son, what he must be going through? They didn’t even take into consideration that a minor was with him,” the daughter asks.
In another video, a man at the killed civilian’s residence in Srinagar, presumed to be his son, is heard saying that “CRPF responded to the firing by militants and killed him, he was dragged down from the car and shot him dead”.
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