Summary The New York Times, in a recent article, lambasted Indian army for using local as a human shield.
(Web Desk) - Modi’s doctrine of suppressing Kashmiris’ voice for right to self-determination has yielded devastated results. Indian forces have utterly failed in curtailing the rise of second Kashmir Intifada after martyrdom of freedom leader Burhan Wani. Hundreds have been martyred and thousands have been injured or blinded by brutal use of state machinery. International media and human rights activists are criticizing India and are demanding an end to human rights’ violations.
The New York Times, in a recent editorial, lambasted Indian army for using a local youth as human shield against stone-pelters. The newspaper condemns the incident in following words.
“Members of India’s armed forces reached a new low in the long history of alleged human rights abuses in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir when they beat and then tied a 24-year-old shawl weaver named Farooq Ahmad Dar to the front of a jeep on April 9, using him as a human shield against stone-throwing crowds”.
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The newspaper further writes, “Such posturing will only doom Kashmir to a deadly spiral, where more brutal military tactics will feed more despair and more militancy”.
