As death and panic, grip the entire world in the wake of COVID-19, the Himalayan region of Kashmir like many regions in the world is also facing a never ending death cycle, taking a huge impact on civilian populace throughout the region.
On Wednesday, the family of a 32-year-old man who was allegedly killed in action by government forces to quell protesters in the region’s Pulwama district post the killing of prominent Militant commander Riyaz Naikoo and his associate in a gunfight with joint team of Government Forces.
Several people, were injured during the clashes that raged outside the gunfight site, sixteen of whom were shifted to a hospital in Srinagar- the summer capital of Kashmir, for specialized treatment to bullet and pellets wounds, local media reported.
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The 32-year old youth, Jahangir Yousuf Parray (32) son of Mohammad Yousuf Parray, locals in conversation with The Kashmiriyat said, worked as a salesman at a shop in Pulwama and was shot at during the deadly clashes. “Jahangir was not a part of the stone throwing crowds, he was going to a shop in the nearby Awantipora area, when Army cordoned off the area and he got stuck,” a local from Utmulla, the native of Jahangir said.
He said that the locals of the area hid the body of Jahangir under grass to prevent the local police from taking away it to be buried miles away from home, Jahangeer, he said, was buried late on Wednesday evening in Utmulla area which in the Pulwama district.
“Jahangir, who married some seven years back”, the local said, “has two daughters and a legt behind a young women, his wife”. Who will take care of his family now, the local asked.
The local News reports said that the death of the youth has not been confirmed officially.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed post 2016 when a massive civilian uprising started in the Kashmir valley post the killing of a popular Militant commander, Burhan Wani on July 08, that year.
The Indian Government has launched a massive crackdown against local Militancy in Kashmir, however the number of boys joining Mitants has been on the rise, and keeps growing rural in its character.
The denial of space, to a political solution, experts believe, has given rise to space for the “maximalist” positions. It is also pertinent to mention here that since the rise of right wing Bhartiya Janta Party into power, the number of civilian killings and youth joining Militant outfits has gone drastically up.
“Jahangir was the sole bread earner to his family, how many families have to beg, loose their breadearners, and strave before the world hears us”, his friend asks.