Kashmir: Where guns empty mothers' laps
Kashmir Updates - Aamir Ali Bhat - May 12, 2019
The world’s most militarised zone Indian-administered Kashmir (IAK) continues to be one of the longest-running unresolved conflicts between two neighbouring countries, India and Pakistan. Both the nuclear states claim the region in full but only control parts.
Since the armed insurgency that erupted against Indian rule in the late 1980s, the region has been active, in death and destruction, with the majority of the population overwhelmingly supporting Kashmiri rebel fighters’ cause.
India has deployed tens of thousands of armed forces who have been engaged in pulverising all kinds of dissent through remorseless waves of crackdown.
Despite the decades-long military onslaught to put the rebellion down, the youth in Kashmir remain obstinate at their ideas. The recruitment of youth in rebel ranks remain limited after 2002 but not completely stopped.
Ever since the student-turned-rebel commander Burhan Wani was killed in July 2016, the armed insurgency flared up again. Hordes of youth started joining armed rebellion. In April alone, around 30 educated youth have joined.
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