GenocideAlert: Indian Genocide in Kashmir
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Why is Pakistan working for the Americans on the Afghan Taliban issue as well as the Iran situation when the Americans haven't done anything for Pakistan on the Kashmir issue?
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Calm down guys ,govt is announcing Kashmir is open for tourists and while the lockdown continues as all Pakistanies believe there is a army recruitment going in valley and 20000 have attended the camp to join Indian army in 3 days
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Normal in a month? Filthy, Blood sucking cowardly butcher's and rapist's supporters finding excuses for their Hindutva Brahman masters, hoping to be spared the same fate, lol.
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Racing Against Death,
With Both Feet Tied.
With Both Feet Tied.
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Saja Begum spent hours navigating roadblocks as she went door to door at hospitals and pharmacies in a desperate search for antivenin after her son was bitten by a snake.CreditCreditAtul Loke for The New York Times
In Kashmir, a Race Against Death, With No Way to Call a Doctor
By Sameer Yasir and Jeffrey Gettleman
- Oct. 7, 2019
Ms. Begum could not call an ambulance: The Indian government had shut down Kashmir’s cellular network. She then began a panicked, 16-hour odyssey to find an antidote that could save her 22-year-old son.
While his leg began to swell and he grew faint, she trekked across a landscape of cutoff streets, security checkpoints, disconnected phones and hobbled doctors.
Two months after the Indian government revoked Kashmir’s autonomy and imposed harsh security measures across the Kashmir Valley, doctors and patients here say the crackdown has taken many lives, in large part because of a government-imposed communication blackout, including shutting down the internet.
Cancer patients who buy medicine online have been unable to place orders. Without cell service, doctors can’t talk to each other, find specialists or get critical information to help them in life-or-death situations. And because most Kashmiris don’t have landlines in their homes, they can’t call for help.
“At least a dozen patients have died because they could not call an ambulance or could not reach the hospital on time, the majority of them with heart-related disease,’’ said Sadaat, a doctor in a Kashmir hospital who did not want to be identified by his full name out of fear or reprisals.
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A protest in Soura, Srinagar, on Sept. 13.CreditAtul Loke for The New York Times
Many doctors interviewed for this article said they could be fired for even speaking with reporters.
Kashmiri doctors have also accused Indian security forces of directly harassing and intimidating medical personnel.
Indian officials reject those accusations, saying that hospitals have been functioning normally, even under the restrictions, and that health care workers and emergency patients have been given passes to allow them to travel through checkpoints.
“There was no loss of life caused by restrictions,” said Rohit Kansal, a government official. “We have saved more lives than we have lost.”
But several health officials, based on hospital records, estimated that hundreds of people have been left in an emergency situation without ambulances, and that many may have died as a result of that and other communication problems, though there are no centrally compiled figures.
“People have died because they had no access to a phone or could not call an ambulance,” said Ramani Atkuri, one of more than a dozen Indian doctors who signed a recent letter urging the Indian government to lift the restrictions.
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Srinagar, in September.CreditAtul Loke for The New York Times
A new WhatsApp group called Save Heart Initiative that had helped in more than 13,000 cardiac emergencies and been celebrated in the Indian media as a Kashmiri success story has been rendered virtually defunct. Hundreds of Kashmiri doctors, and even some in the United States, were part of the group, uploading electrocardiograms and other vital information and then getting life-saving advice from one another.
With no internet in the Kashmir Valley, doctors there can’t use it.
Doctors at Sri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital in Srinagar, Kashmir’s biggest city, said there had been a 50 percent dip in the number of surgeries in the past two months because of the restrictions, as well as because of drug shortages.
Several young doctors said their work had been particularly hampered by the loss of mobile phone service. When they needed help from senior doctors, they lost precious time racing around the hospital searching for them.
For Ms. Begum’s family, time had become the enemy.
On Aug. 13, her son, Amir Farooq Dar, a student whose college has been closed since early August, was tending his family’s sheep in an orchard near the town of Baramulla when he was bitten by a krait, a poisonous snake.
Most bites are fatal unless Polyvalent, an antivenin medication, is injected in the first six hours. Ms. Begum cinched a rope around his leg, hoping it would slow the poison. She then ran, with her son leaning against her, to the village public health center, which usually stocks the antidote. The center was closed.
She shouted for help and begged for a ride to Baramulla’s district hospital. But doctors there were unable to help, the family said, because they could not locate any antidote. They then arranged for an ambulance to take the young man to a hospital in Srinagar.
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Security checkpoints and street blockages in Srinagar have made travel difficult.CreditAtul Loke for The New York Times
Soldiers stopped the ambulance many times on the way, the family said. Mr. Dar was slowly closing his eyes. He told his mother, in a drowsy voice, that he could not feel his right leg.
At least two hours had passed.
On Aug. 5, the Indian government unilaterally revoked the special autonomy that the Kashmir region, which is also claimed by Pakistan, had held for more than 70 years. It is ending Kashmir’s status as a full state in India and turning it into a federally administered enclave instead.
Hours before announcing the revocation, Indian officials imposed a blanket of tough security measures, cutting off the internet and phone services and jailing thousands of Kashmiri political leaders, academics and activists. It also imposed a strict curfew, limiting movement in the Kashmir Valley, home to approximately eight million people.
Some of the movement restrictions have been eased and some landlines are working again, but many Kashmiris say their lives remain paralyzed.
Kashmir has been racked by a separatist conflict for years, and Indian officials, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have said the new arrangement will bring peace.
But several Kashmiri doctors said dozens of preventable deaths might have happened because of the blockade.
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Dr. Omar Salim, a urologist at Government Medical Collage in Srinagar, was arrested after staging a one-man demonstration urging the authorities to restore phone service to Kashmir.CreditAtul Loke for The New York Times
In late August, a Kashmiri doctor, Omar Salim, a urologist, rode a bicycle on a deserted street to Srinagar’s hub of media offices, in a doctor’s apron, a poster hung to his chest. His plea: restore phone and internet service.
He was promptly arrested. Police officers let him go after a few hours with a warning not to do it again.
“We may not be in a formal prison, but this is nothing less than incarceration,” Dr. Salim said in a recent interview.
A cardiologist who works at a Srinagar hospital said he had recently received a patient who had suffered a heart attack. The patient needed a procedure that required the help of a specialized technician, but the technician was not at the hospital.
Fearing that the patient could die, and with no way to call the technician, the cardiologist drove five miles in pitch darkness to the technician’s neighborhood and searched for him. The doctor didn’t know exactly where he lived and had to keep asking people to lead him to the technician’s house.
The doctor said that he and the technician managed to save the patient’s life, but that Kashmir has been “thrown into the Stone Age.”
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A photo of Amir Farooq Dar, 22, shared by his family.CreditAtul Loke for The New York Times
Several Kashmiri doctors said pediatric care and maternity services were among the hardest hit.
Last month, Raziya Khan was pregnant when she developed complications. But she and her husband, Bilal Mandoo, who are poor apple farmers, live in a small village seven miles from the nearest hospital and couldn’t call an ambulance because of the phone blockages.
The couple walked the seven miles, taking hours because of her worsening condition. They made it to the hospital, but were then sent to a bigger hospital in Srinagar. It was too late, and they lost their baby.
“Had there been a phone working, I would have called an ambulance right to my house,” Mr. Mandoo said.
After hours of desperate searching for antivenin that could help Mr. Dar, the young man bitten by the krait, and a terrifying ambulance ride through security checkpoints, he and his family finally made it to Soura Hospital in Srinagar.
The bad news came yet again: Soura Hospital had none of the antivenin, either.
What the family did not know then was that the first hospital they had visited, in Baramulla, actually had the antidote in a locked storeroom. But the clerk who controlled the storeroom had not been around and was not able to be reached by phone.
In Srinagar, the family traveled frantically from pharmacy to pharmacy pleading for the antidote. Nothing. They arrived at the gate of an army camp, which normally stocks the antivenin, but were told to come back the next day.
After every failed trip, Ms. Begum shouted at her husband, Farooq Ahmad Dar, “Sell everything, but save him!”
Mr. Dar, 46, said he had never felt so helpless. “I felt like pushing a knife into my chest,” he said.
At 10:30 a.m. the next day, 16 hours after he was bitten, the younger Mr. Dar died. His parents then traveled 55 miles back home, in an ambulance, with his body.
The antivenin arrived two days later at the hospital, from a city more than 150 miles away. It came in 30 vials in a van along with other medicines.
Sameer Yasir reported from Heevan, Kashmir, and Jeffrey Gettleman from New Delhi. Suhasini Raj contributed reporting from New Delhi, and Iqbal Kirmani from Srinagar, Kashmir.
A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 7, 2019, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Racing Against Death, With Both Feet Tied.
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Normal in a month? Filthy, Blood sucking cowardly butcher's and rapist's supporters finding excuses for their Hindutva Brahman masters, hoping to be spared the same fate, lol.
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Racing Against Death,
With Both Feet Tied.
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Saja Begum spent hours navigating roadblocks as she went door to door at hospitals and pharmacies in a desperate search for antivenin after her son was bitten by a snake.CreditCreditAtul Loke for The New York Times
In Kashmir, a Race Against Death, With No Way to Call a Doctor
By Sameer Yasir and Jeffrey Gettleman
HEEVAN, Kashmir — Saja Begum was cooking dinner when her son walked into the kitchen with a stricken look on his face. “Mom,” he said. “I have been bitten by a snake. I am going to die.”
- Oct. 7, 2019
Ms. Begum could not call an ambulance: The Indian government had shut down Kashmir’s cellular network. She then began a panicked, 16-hour odyssey to find an antidote that could save her 22-year-old son.
While his leg began to swell and he grew faint, she trekked across a landscape of cutoff streets, security checkpoints, disconnected phones and hobbled doctors.
Two months after the Indian government revoked Kashmir’s autonomy and imposed harsh security measures across the Kashmir Valley, doctors and patients here say the crackdown has taken many lives, in large part because of a government-imposed communication blackout, including shutting down the internet.
Cancer patients who buy medicine online have been unable to place orders. Without cell service, doctors can’t talk to each other, find specialists or get critical information to help them in life-or-death situations. And because most Kashmiris don’t have landlines in their homes, they can’t call for help.
“At least a dozen patients have died because they could not call an ambulance or could not reach the hospital on time, the majority of them with heart-related disease,’’ said Sadaat, a doctor in a Kashmir hospital who did not want to be identified by his full name out of fear or reprisals.
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A protest in Soura, Srinagar, on Sept. 13.CreditAtul Loke for The New York Times
Many doctors interviewed for this article said they could be fired for even speaking with reporters.
Kashmiri doctors have also accused Indian security forces of directly harassing and intimidating medical personnel.
Indian officials reject those accusations, saying that hospitals have been functioning normally, even under the restrictions, and that health care workers and emergency patients have been given passes to allow them to travel through checkpoints.
“There was no loss of life caused by restrictions,” said Rohit Kansal, a government official. “We have saved more lives than we have lost.”
But several health officials, based on hospital records, estimated that hundreds of people have been left in an emergency situation without ambulances, and that many may have died as a result of that and other communication problems, though there are no centrally compiled figures.
“People have died because they had no access to a phone or could not call an ambulance,” said Ramani Atkuri, one of more than a dozen Indian doctors who signed a recent letter urging the Indian government to lift the restrictions.
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Srinagar, in September.CreditAtul Loke for The New York Times
A new WhatsApp group called Save Heart Initiative that had helped in more than 13,000 cardiac emergencies and been celebrated in the Indian media as a Kashmiri success story has been rendered virtually defunct. Hundreds of Kashmiri doctors, and even some in the United States, were part of the group, uploading electrocardiograms and other vital information and then getting life-saving advice from one another.
With no internet in the Kashmir Valley, doctors there can’t use it.
Doctors at Sri Maharaja Hari Singh Hospital in Srinagar, Kashmir’s biggest city, said there had been a 50 percent dip in the number of surgeries in the past two months because of the restrictions, as well as because of drug shortages.
Several young doctors said their work had been particularly hampered by the loss of mobile phone service. When they needed help from senior doctors, they lost precious time racing around the hospital searching for them.
For Ms. Begum’s family, time had become the enemy.
On Aug. 13, her son, Amir Farooq Dar, a student whose college has been closed since early August, was tending his family’s sheep in an orchard near the town of Baramulla when he was bitten by a krait, a poisonous snake.
Most bites are fatal unless Polyvalent, an antivenin medication, is injected in the first six hours. Ms. Begum cinched a rope around his leg, hoping it would slow the poison. She then ran, with her son leaning against her, to the village public health center, which usually stocks the antidote. The center was closed.
She shouted for help and begged for a ride to Baramulla’s district hospital. But doctors there were unable to help, the family said, because they could not locate any antidote. They then arranged for an ambulance to take the young man to a hospital in Srinagar.
Image
Security checkpoints and street blockages in Srinagar have made travel difficult.CreditAtul Loke for The New York Times
Soldiers stopped the ambulance many times on the way, the family said. Mr. Dar was slowly closing his eyes. He told his mother, in a drowsy voice, that he could not feel his right leg.
At least two hours had passed.
On Aug. 5, the Indian government unilaterally revoked the special autonomy that the Kashmir region, which is also claimed by Pakistan, had held for more than 70 years. It is ending Kashmir’s status as a full state in India and turning it into a federally administered enclave instead.
Hours before announcing the revocation, Indian officials imposed a blanket of tough security measures, cutting off the internet and phone services and jailing thousands of Kashmiri political leaders, academics and activists. It also imposed a strict curfew, limiting movement in the Kashmir Valley, home to approximately eight million people.
Some of the movement restrictions have been eased and some landlines are working again, but many Kashmiris say their lives remain paralyzed.
Kashmir has been racked by a separatist conflict for years, and Indian officials, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have said the new arrangement will bring peace.
But several Kashmiri doctors said dozens of preventable deaths might have happened because of the blockade.
Image
Dr. Omar Salim, a urologist at Government Medical Collage in Srinagar, was arrested after staging a one-man demonstration urging the authorities to restore phone service to Kashmir.CreditAtul Loke for The New York Times
In late August, a Kashmiri doctor, Omar Salim, a urologist, rode a bicycle on a deserted street to Srinagar’s hub of media offices, in a doctor’s apron, a poster hung to his chest. His plea: restore phone and internet service.
He was promptly arrested. Police officers let him go after a few hours with a warning not to do it again.
“We may not be in a formal prison, but this is nothing less than incarceration,” Dr. Salim said in a recent interview.
A cardiologist who works at a Srinagar hospital said he had recently received a patient who had suffered a heart attack. The patient needed a procedure that required the help of a specialized technician, but the technician was not at the hospital.
Fearing that the patient could die, and with no way to call the technician, the cardiologist drove five miles in pitch darkness to the technician’s neighborhood and searched for him. The doctor didn’t know exactly where he lived and had to keep asking people to lead him to the technician’s house.
The doctor said that he and the technician managed to save the patient’s life, but that Kashmir has been “thrown into the Stone Age.”
Image
A photo of Amir Farooq Dar, 22, shared by his family.CreditAtul Loke for The New York Times
Several Kashmiri doctors said pediatric care and maternity services were among the hardest hit.
Last month, Raziya Khan was pregnant when she developed complications. But she and her husband, Bilal Mandoo, who are poor apple farmers, live in a small village seven miles from the nearest hospital and couldn’t call an ambulance because of the phone blockages.
The couple walked the seven miles, taking hours because of her worsening condition. They made it to the hospital, but were then sent to a bigger hospital in Srinagar. It was too late, and they lost their baby.
“Had there been a phone working, I would have called an ambulance right to my house,” Mr. Mandoo said.
After hours of desperate searching for antivenin that could help Mr. Dar, the young man bitten by the krait, and a terrifying ambulance ride through security checkpoints, he and his family finally made it to Soura Hospital in Srinagar.
The bad news came yet again: Soura Hospital had none of the antivenin, either.
What the family did not know then was that the first hospital they had visited, in Baramulla, actually had the antidote in a locked storeroom. But the clerk who controlled the storeroom had not been around and was not able to be reached by phone.
In Srinagar, the family traveled frantically from pharmacy to pharmacy pleading for the antidote. Nothing. They arrived at the gate of an army camp, which normally stocks the antivenin, but were told to come back the next day.
After every failed trip, Ms. Begum shouted at her husband, Farooq Ahmad Dar, “Sell everything, but save him!”
Mr. Dar, 46, said he had never felt so helpless. “I felt like pushing a knife into my chest,” he said.
At 10:30 a.m. the next day, 16 hours after he was bitten, the younger Mr. Dar died. His parents then traveled 55 miles back home, in an ambulance, with his body.
The antivenin arrived two days later at the hospital, from a city more than 150 miles away. It came in 30 vials in a van along with other medicines.
Sameer Yasir reported from Heevan, Kashmir, and Jeffrey Gettleman from New Delhi. Suhasini Raj contributed reporting from New Delhi, and Iqbal Kirmani from Srinagar, Kashmir.
A version of this article appears in print on Oct. 7, 2019, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Racing Against Death, With Both Feet Tied.
There are lakhs of hindus who were expelled from kashmir valley are living life of homeless people on roads of delhi .
Life is like that , when it is normal they will return to kashmir .
They are also human beings .
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So that is your cow excrement of an excuse?
@waz take care of this rabid existence please.
Rabid dogs like these try to find lame excuses to hide their flthy existance, while ignoring that these Indian Army butchers have a shameful past in Jammu where the Muslim Majority was massacred in 1947 that changed the demography of Jammu to Hindu Majority.
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That is fact , not an excuse .
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This is to hoodwink the local Indians and international media, why BJP which is in the center and not opposition not taking Kashmir Pandits to their old Kashmir Lands and help them in settling there again, if there are supposedly lacs of Kashmir Pandits evicted and thousands killed(which is a falsehood) India keeps on repeating to justify the Kashmir annexation, suppression and genocide.
"Over the past 20 years, we estimate that 650 Pandits were killed in the valley," Tickoo says, adding: "The figures of 3,000 to 4,000 killings [as suggested by some Pandit organisations] is propaganda, which we reject."
"Not that 650 is a low number, because even one killing should be not ignored, but we must get the numbers right."
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/s...ottenconflict/2011/07/201176134818984961.html
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You are a sorry excuse of a human being for alluding that Kashmiris somehow deserve it.
Your condition is just a side effects of craving for and eating too much Modi Ice cream.
twitter(.)com/samqasim4/status/784454036644831232
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Once conditions get normal all hindus expelled from valley will be settled with proper security .
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American president offered to mediate but India said no. what more can America do?
one thing I don't understand : if all communication is cut off and no travel is permitted as has been confirmed by almost all news sources and even the Indian govt, how do you guys (those alleging atrocities and killings) know any such atrocity is going on? or are you just assuming that must be happening?
you may not like it but Indian govt has made the case with historical evidence that it was necessary to maintain law and order in Kashmir given the record of violent separatist movements and using stone pelting youth as bargaining tools.
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this can be considered a reliable source
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/07/restrictions-detentions-persist-kashmir
https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/10/07/restrictions-detentions-persist-kashmir
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True very true.
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