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India 'refuse to register' cases of civilians killed in occupied Kashmir: report


Families in occupied Kashmir state a few regular citizens have kicked the bucket in the midst of conflicts between security powers and nonconformists since India chose to pull back the district's self-sufficiency and forced a broad military check in time that has seen thousands confined and inhabitants cut off from all correspondence and the web. 

UK distribution The Independent, in a report titled Ghosts of Kashmir: Indian experts declining to issue demise declarations for regular folks executed in conflicts, state families, addressed families who said there have been numerous passings since India's proceed onward August 5 — in spite of proclamations by Indian authorities. 

The report cited police boss Dilbagh Singh as saying “there has been not a single casualty as a result of clampdown”, and Indian government spokesperson Rohit Kansal saying he had “no reports” of civilian deaths.

The occupied Kashmir has been under an exacting lockdown to avoid dissents over the canceling of Article 370 of the Indian constitution, that conceded occupied Kashmir uncommon status. Regardless of the lockdown and correspondences power outage — that has entered its fourth week now — there have been reports of enormous challenges. 

Addressing The Independent in Srinagar, a specialist uncovered that medical clinic staff have "received clear verbal instructions" from the Indian authorities "to keep admissions related to the clashes to a minimum, and to discharge victims quickly, in order to keep statistics down".

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The report investigates three passings, in which relatives point by point the challenges of attempting to get specialists to officially recognize the pretended by the conflicts or even to issue them with death testaments by any means. 

Among the losses was 55-year-old Ayoub Khan, who was the main provider in a family with three little girls, as indicated by the report. 

Khan passed on August 17 after conflicts among powers and dissenters broke out in Yaripora, in the Srinagar locale. 

"Both of us were standing together, as the forces launched teargas canisters. A couple of them exploded between Ayoub’s legs and he started suffocating. Immediately he was taken to Shri Maharaja Hari Hospital (SMHS)," The Independent cited Ayoub's companion, 60-year-old Fayaz Ahmad Khan, as saying.  
"When we reached the hospital, doctors told us he was already dead," said Ayoub's sibling Shabir. "We asked them to mention on the record that he died due to teargas, but they refused.”

As indicated by the report, police, dreading an open clamor at Ayoub's passing, requested the family not to direct the typical memorial service parade and utmost the quantity of chaperons to close to 10. 

Shabir and other relatives got wounds when they brought the body home in an emergency vehicle and security powers faculty separated a group gathering at the home by starting to shoot with shotgun pellets. 
The report says that the family following a couple of days approached the clinic for the demise endorsement, "at which point doctors told them they must beforehand get a crime First Information Report (FIR) from the police, something the family say would be impossible to get in the current climate".
It is clear that in any case against the police, they won’t mention the real cause of death,” Shabir told The Independent. “It’s injustice, we aren’t able to register the casualties. We are helpless.”
Police authorities in Srinagar said they were not able "give exact data of any such casualties" yet that they were investigating the cases being raised by The Independent.

This article has been curated from The Independent's report by Zubair Sofi, which you can read here.

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