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For four months following June 2010, the

Kashmir valley was torn by mass protests

locally called the uprising or intifada

which were met with overwhelming force

by Indian security forces. Curfews and

closures were frequent, often shading

into each other. Well over a hundred were

killed, most of them students and youth.

Hundreds were injured, many of them

possibly incapacitated in one way or the

other for life. Those killed and injured

could have been active protesters, but

also those who just happened to be

at the wrong place at the wrong time.

But there are also cases, as this report

points out, where mourners and even

people engaged in daily activities have

been indiscriminately red upon. An

independent fact-nding team went to

the Kashmir valley at the end of Octoberto go into the totality of the situation,

principally to inquire into the causes

for the unconscionably large number of

deaths that have occurred in this phase of

mass agitation. The present report deals

with various facets of the situation that

civilians in the Kashmir valley faced in aseason of unabated turmoil.


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acknowledgements

We would be seriously remiss if we were not to recall as this report

is released, the very generous help received from all those we met in

Kashmir. Everywhere we went people helped by showing us the way, often

even accompanying us to the homes of the deceased and the injured.Many took the time to share their own experiences of life and times in

the Kashmir valley. The families we visited were overwhelming in their

hospitality despite their own sorrow. We are not recording their names

separately here, though they recur through this narrative.

Our very special thanks to Ved Bhasin, for generously granting us his time

and sharing with us from his vast fund of knowledge. Shujaat Bukhari was

of enormous help in assembling a part of this picture, especially in regard

to the challenges facing journalists and media professionals in Kashmir.

Samir Bhat and Prabodh Jamwal were always reliable with their support,

advice and ne company.

This fact-nding was undertaken at the initiative of The Other Media

(Delhi) who put the team together and made the necessary logistical

arrangements. We are thankful to The Other Media staff for their support

and goodwill.

Bela Bhatia

Ravi Hemadri

Sukumar Muralidharan

Vrinda Grover

Fact Finding Team to Kashmir, 2010


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with Kashmir, would dispute that the clumsy and disingenuous ofcial response to

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in what is called mainland India, towards any ofcial claims on Kashmir, has

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Media images of Tufail Mattoo's killing inamed feelings in Kashmir, leading to a state of full-scalerevolt


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Civil society groupings in Kashmir afrm that the demonstrations the valley saw for

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directed against them, by inicting serious violence on all those who they thought

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about twenty-ve person days were put into the fact-nding exercise. In groups or

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besides ofcials in the police headquarters and the civil administration.

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nal report.

Security forces remain a constant presence in allKashmirs streets and villages


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signicantly below the average. Despite the quibbles, the nal outcome was deemed

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and the stretch of the stream where they were nally found had been searched till

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quickly, though without an alternative explanation given for the deaths. No rst

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the rst signs of a suspected crime emerged.

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the ofcial explanation, given by the Divisional Commissioner of Kashmir, the top

ofcial looking after civil administration in the Kashmir valley.

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trust decit between the administration and the people of the state. This was not

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Kashmirs media, the state government nally relented and empowered a judicial

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engaged public attention much more than the substantive nding: that the police

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the crime were nally disbanded in September 2009 when the Central Bureau of

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returned a nding of death by drowning. The CBIs investigation found few takers

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mortem ndings which ruled out drowning as the cause of death and indicated

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and misleading the police investigations. Ironically the four police ofcers who by

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a small spurt of high-prole incidents occurred in January 2009 in places like Sopore.

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Kashmir, especially the youth, took to the streets in protest. Unarmed in the rst

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stories behind these, which need to be narrated. What follows is a rst and admittedly

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Shooting the sangbaaz

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since 2009. Before that there was an RR (Rashtriya Ries) camp for ten years. We

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stone pelting in the protest that day but the security forces opened re nonetheless,

without the slightest effort to go through the non-lethal options prescribed as rst

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stomach by shots red from the front.

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re. Upto twenty were injured in this ring, including several women. One of the

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Not all families think it necessary to le an FIR. This sentiment was expressed in

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any specic victim being the target. The purpose may have been to intimidate the

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very close quarters. The volley of pellets was red by a J&K police person who came

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Rajus injuries were not regarded at rst, as life threatening but after a few days in

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Later that day there was teargas shelling and pellet gun ring in the air during

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Sopores rst pellet gun victim

The state government has justied the use of pellet guns in crowd control on the

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experience of those who have been hit by these guns, since if red from close range

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multiple organ injuries, with a quite denite possibility of death. The rst victim of

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conict) said his mother, Nasima. Mudassir was the only son and is survived by his

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(the government has xed our rate).

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Mudassir Nazir - the rst pelletgun victim of Sopore


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On 7 July 2010, the Indian Army came out on the streets of Srinagar for the rst

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was running rather thin, even by the normally deluded standards of the ofcial

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and rather sanitised headline: Indenite curfew in Srinagar after 4 die in fresh

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a 25-year old woman, were killed in CRPF ring on Tuesday, bringing the death toll

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In keeping with the established pattern, the mainstream media uffed the gures

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identities and actions devoid of agency. Lives were lost because bullets were red.

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to examine the damage inicted on civic life as a consequence of the tactics that

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The ministers visit was seen in the locality as a publicity gimmick. Reecting the

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becoming the dening template of that summer in Kashmir.

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working in the elds with him till about two oclock on the afternoon of 5 July. They

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dariya (ood channel) that runs close to the highway, along the road leading to their

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d, ll b dariya, were the rst target they spotted. Muzaffar

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Muzaffars release. By late-evening, the highway was choked and trafc movement

paralysed. The top police ofcials from superintendent to inspector-general --

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while eeing the security crackdown. As Bashir recounts that days incidents, the

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all why he should have been targeted in a lethal volley of gunre by the CRPF. There

were a number of others among the demonstrators who were injured in this ring,

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keep the cofn, carrying the body of Tufail, on road amid heavy shelling and ring

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pivotal event in the years disturbances, the delegations rst visit was with his

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an early ProvoCation: the killing of ZahiD farooq

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to safety but Zahid was either specically targeted or he was just the single kill

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The company involved was identied as 68 battalion of BSF, using closed circuit

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lethal weapon in their possession that day. Interrogation nally identied constableLakhwinder Singh (alias Kumar) as the person who had red the fatal shot. He was

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revealed that the order to re that day had been issued by commandant R.K. Birdi,

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On November 25, the CJM Srinagar, ruled that under relevant notications issued by

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2 December 2010, led a revision petition against this order before the J&K High

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for evidence to be recorded by the GSFC with the rider that a nal decision in the

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been an act of verbal deance by the three boys when they saw the BSF convoy

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On 31 January 2010, just ve days before, Wamiq Farooq, a 17-year old, was killedwl k cl d s. t c d w

then suspected to be a teargas shell red from close range, which impacted with

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that day was already grievously injured and offered at rst sight, little hope of

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to have ed when the wrath of the CRPF descended on the hospital, some of them

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from a CRPF rearm.

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of a police ring in the north

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deployed at the site opened re. As reported the next day in Greater Kashmir,

many as 90 may have been injured in these rounds of ring. Protesters in retaliation,

reportedly attacked the police station and sought to set it are.1

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Kashmir, reported the attack on the hospital in some detail, it identied the boy

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Rising Kashmir, 31 July 2010.

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came out of the same source, which claimed that two senior police ofcials the

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found his path meeting with another, down which security forces, rearms at the

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was shattered and he had by the end of October, undergone the rst of many

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of refreshments. As the team took its leave of him, he had his family ll up a bagful

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terms of funds allocation, Palhallan was under curfew for a length of time difcult

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least September 8, only seeing the rst glimmer of an opening late in October. Media

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The ofcial account though is different. On October 23, Kuldeep Khoda, Director-

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Though the ofcial account suggests that the lethal ring followed intolerable

provocation and a possible threat to the security of senior police ofcials, Palhallan

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din as they discharged rearms in regular fusillades to warn the village of the dire

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The mood in the village was inamed on September 18 and closure as enforced by the

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vlld ough the elds adjoining the village, reaching Pattan after a trudge of

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He had just nished lunch and begun work when he was minded to call his son Ali

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of the security personnel had been exhausted. He was the rst of the worshippers to

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seriously. Another newspaper called that day a Bloody Friday since ring had

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nature of injurieS

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made: bullet injury; pellet injury, rearm injury, tear gas burn, trauma, scalp injury,

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police wanted, but not nding the attendant, they had taken the patient presumably

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If a pellet gun is red from a distance then it remains in the wall of the abdomen

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blamingthemessenger:

kashmirsmediaunderpressure

Junctures of civil unrest in Kashmir invariably call forth the reexive attitude of

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out of its barracks and deployed in the streets of Kashmir. A notication by the

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record the days events. Some had their professional equipment conscated by

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journalists and news cameramen were attacked, senior police ofcers were heard

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Through fteen days in September, few newspapers were printed in Srinagar because

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indenitely. Among the few newspapers published, most found distribution channels

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available today, of severe cutbacks in ofcial advertising to newspapers that are seen

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ofcial advertising, records a spending of over Rs 3.44 crore in the print media in

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number of newspapers beneting from ofcial ad allocations is higher in Jammu and

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distributed with intent to ensure compliance with the ofcial diktat. t ldw bld s Rising Kashmir, Greater Kashmird Kashmir

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June 2010. This nal crackdown on a service that Kashmirs journalists had begun

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to generate a modest, though signicant, revenue stream for themselves through

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v, d, d l d blk b cbd,since these had been identied by security agencies as a source of destabilising

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registration. All channels were under compulsion moreover, to conne their news

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agenciesofrepression

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counter-insurgency operations under various formations of the Rashtriya Ries

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military ofcers in order to maintain itself in a land of 300 million.

The gure of 90,000 is of course a serious under-estimate, since it only covers the

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Irrespective of the precise gure, which the government releases if at all -- only

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The uprising in Kashmir, after the heavy-handed response that it rst elicited, led to

some loud thinking within ofcial circles about the possibility of thinning the heavy

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1 pv sw, Cb fd Crpf nd iv C, The Hindu, Jl 17 2009, vlbl

w : ://www.d.c/2009/07/17//2009071752570900..


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condence-building measure, is not clear. It may have been an offhand thought

put out in a moment of reection before an academic audience. It may have come

out of a deeper process of consultations within duly constituted ofcial bodies.

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his assessment that troop levels would have to be reviewed in Unied Command

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The nal word on this series of exchanges came when Defence Minister A.K. Antony

claried that the 25 percent target for troop reduction would apply only to the CRPF

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repercussions and doubts will emerge. J&K police is ooded with such complaints

and enquiries about encounters are now going back more than ve-six years and in

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3 s a K K w id: BJp, Rising Kashmir, J 18, 2011, vlbl : ://

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4 V Dd, a c J&K wll b dcd: a, The Hindu, J 22, 2011,

vlbl : ://www.d.c/w/l/cl1109454.c.


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The army command for its part, afrmed its commitment to transparency in all

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persons behind Machhil could not be initiated because of the inrmities of the

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imPunity the rule

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being carried away by a t of vengeful rage. There too, the prosecution has lost its

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this is either bravado or quite simply an effort to deect public scrutiny. A similar

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that ve innocent civilians had been killed by the army in the Pathribal encounter

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The crude ction was soon exposed. But its authors remain unpunished, and needless , C vd blckl cl .

5 o tlk t t, Greater Kashmir, J 6, 2011; vlbl : ://lb19.www.

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6 a C J&K jc, Indian Express, J 15, 2011, vlbl : ://www.

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attituDeS

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in the indenite sustenance of the prevailing climate of impunity.

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responsible for much rufed sensitivities in Kashmir. And the Union Home Ministry

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tack and began arming an extremist fringe to ght on its behalf. From the mid-1990s

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2011, available at: http://www.tehelka.com/story_main48.asp?lename=Ws03021JK.asp.

8 Wj hbbll, My Kashmir: Conict and the Prospects for Enduring Peace, ud s i

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decided to ght Indias cause against the jihad, never making too ne a point of

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police formation is ofcially in existence. The three deaths in the Batamaloo area on

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10 mzl Jll, Cll K, Indian Express, fb 6, 2010, vlbl : ://www.

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J & K Police worked together with the CRPF during the present

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Andrabi in 1996. The army ofcer responsible, Major Avtar Singh, of Unit 103 of

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addressing the issue of impunity. But after the initial urry of activity when there

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Death aS Proximate reality

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On the rst Friday following the killings, Sopore shut down in belated, though

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night-time ambush. Since he chose instead to ee, the army had adequate cause

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commissionofinquiry

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to the notication, the inquiry was to consider all incidents of the use of forcel d, b w kll tl ad m sd

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who died on June 19, when the CRPF opened re on the funeral procession of

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leading to deaths by ring or otherwise into the 17 incidents; xing responsibility

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On 31 August the CoI issued a notication asking people having direct or indirect

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statements in the form of sworn afdavits by September 15 or before. The CoI later

extended this deadline for submission of afdavits to 15 October 2010. Due to the

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Some of the families this team met had led afdavits before the commission. The

brother of Fayaz Ahmed Wani, who was shot dead on 6 July in Batmaloo had led

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and afdavits with regard to 13 killings.1 t C ld s,

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victims, police ofcers and security personnel. The Commission is said to have issued

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s .2 B d w v c-examine each other. Raq Ahmad father of Faizan Buhroo, who the team met, joined

the inquiry, since it gave him a chance to ask a question to a senior ofcial regarding

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However on 15 January2011, on a petition led by Special Director General, CRPF,

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of Inquiry not to submit the nal report without the permission of this court.4

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Even as family members of the dead le afdavits and participate in the CoI

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its ndings and suggest measures to be taken by the State Government. The

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2011, led a Public Interest Litigation before the High Court with respect to the

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f. That such magistrates be qualied in law so that while taking the decision he

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between January 2010 to December 2010 except those where the nal

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compensation

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clauses of this eight-point formula announced a compensation of Rs ve lakh for the

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obvious compulsion, have accepted the compensation distributed through the ofce

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inhe bhi hamaare khate mein dal diya hai ( v b d

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This list of 13 deaths includes young Samir Ahmed Rah and Faizan Raq.1 Cllsince no punitive consequences other than compensation are expected to ow from

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State and its agencies should reect the biases entrenched in the applicable system

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bullet ring. Substantial sums of money have already been spent by them on surgery

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bywayofconclusion:

refectionsonthecurrentsituation

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and inicted such damage were acting in self-defence. Their endeavour could more

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with lethal gunre. While the Indian State kept repeating that dialogue was the

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testied not so much to humane intent, but to the States willingness, in its eagerness

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