Fear catches Kashmir as the young man kills himself after the alleged torture of the police | Police news

Srinagar, Kashmir in the Indian Administration -Mathan Din stands in an empty mosque in the Kathu Kathu Kashmia Cashmia to shoot his last video message on your mobile phone.

Wearing skulls and a blue-white sports jacket, a bearded 25-year-old says he will soon “sacrifice” his life so that no one else in the region is undergoing “torture” of the police, who suspected him “associated with militants”, the expression of power used for rebels who fight the Indian rule.

In the middle of a grained four -minute video recorded on February 5th, Din shows the copy of the Qur’an from the shelf on his back and puts it on his head to pledge himself, “never saw” no rebels as he recounts the horrors he endured in the police detention night before before . Then he returns the holy book back and removed the pesticide plastic package from his pocket, and the lips are constantly praying to God.

“I will have to take this medicine out of coercion and it will end my life. I will die so that other people will be saved after me. Oh Allah, accept my sacrifice. Let my family be happy, always, O Allah. Save me from the grave punishment … you look at everything … send angels to take my soul from the mosque.

In the video: Before his death, Sucida, Makhan Din, 25, Kathua tribe of Kathu’s area Bilawar recorded the act by saying that he was dying of suicide, so no one else was undergoing “torture” and “humiliation” by the police in which the police in which was subjected. pic.twitter.com/b5zw0gvvx

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After recording the video, Din consumed pesticide and last sent his older brother, Lal Din, informing him that he had sent him a video via WhatsApp and also killed himself.

In a statement on February 7, police claimed that DIN had “the number of suspicious contacts in Pakistan and other foreign countries,” and denied that he was tortured in custody or had an injury on his body. “He was questioned and then exposed himself, went home and committed suicide,” it said. Jammu District is explored by Din’s death and allegations of torture.

In the meantime, the persecuted video has reached tens of thousands of mobile phones and TV screens in the region and beyond, enhancing tensions and restoring memories of torture and other crimes in the picturesque Himalayan valley, where the armed rebellion has been going on for decades.

From the independence of the British rule and division into Hindu India and mostly Muslim Pakistan in 1947, the entire territory of Kashmir also claimed nations that rule over its parts. Two nuclear forces fought with three full installments in the territory and erected tens of thousands of soldiers across its snow border.

India accuses Pakistan of training and funding a rebellion on the Indian side, which is a charge that Islamabad has refused, which says it only provides diplomatic support for the movement on international platforms. New Delhi arranged more than 500,000 soldiers in Kashmir, which made him one of the most militarized regions in the world, where Indian forces gained special powers and impunity for demolishing the rebellion.

Residents say Indian control has been tightened since 2019, when the right -wing government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi took off Article 370 The Indian Constitution, which has been approved degree of autonomy to the Kashmir that managed Indian applications and divided the region into two federally operated trade unions-mammom territories and Kashmir and Ladakh. The government claimed that the move would bring “normality”, peace and development in the region because it pushed the string Laws and politics Kashmiris fear is aimed at changing the demographics of the Muslim majority region.

The 2019 move is also accompanied by a months -long security lock And a ban on public protests, such as thousands of people-old people, lawyers, activists, and even pro-Indian politicians-Bacali in prison. However, more than five years later, peace still avoids the dormant streets of the region.

But Din’s alleged torture by the police, followed by his death with suicide, worsening fear among residents. “It was scary to see a man resorting to killing himself, despite knowing the gravity of punishment. Our religion [Islam] He warns us strongly against the act he committed, “said the 22-year-old man, seeking anonymity as he feared retaliation to talk to the media.

The young man said that Din’s desperate act “brought into question the safety he holds.”

“I feel privileged that I couldn’t imagine the pain it must have gone through. They are rarely discussed here about cases. Most news is short -lived these days. Times have changed in Kashmir,” he said. “It’s really the beginning of the end.”

The army kills the truck driver

The day after Din seized his own life, the army killed Waseem Ahmad Mir, a 32-year-old truck driver who belonged to the northern Kashmir Sopora.

In a statement, the army said that peace jumped a safety checkpoint on Srinagar-Baramulla highway. The truck did not stop “despite repeated warnings,” it is said, claiming that Mirovo’s vehicle was persecuted 23 KM (14 miles) before being shot.

However, Mir’s family rejected the military version of the event.

“The army says they chased him for 23 KM, but [superintendent of police] He told us that he was persecuted at 35 km. We also want to know that when he had to go to Srinagar, why was the vehicle in [opposite] Direction, going to Baramulla? “The cousin’s cousin told the Indian Express newspaper, citing contradictions in the statements given by the army and the police.

“His clothes were in dirt. We want to know if they beat him up or tortured before the murder.”

‘A lot of fear’

The death of two civilians due to the alleged excesses by Indian forces followed more than 500 kashmiris detained for the murder of a retired military officer, Manzoor Ahmad Wagay, a locals on February 3. Wagay shot the rebels with the rebels, and his wife and niece injured in Kulgamo South Kashmir.

After the murder, the authorities rounded off the young men from several districts in South Kashmir, most of whom were previously accused of participating in anti -Oviva’s protests or an armed rebellion. Photos of the Armed Forces Frisowing Vehicles and People at various control points have become viral on social media.

“I feel scared after a recent decline because it seems we can no longer live in our own cashmere or if we do it, it must be in constant fear. You never know if the army could come and take you, and then you suffer despite being innocent “, said the 21-year-old from the Pulwam district for Al Jazeera, seeking anonymity.

“There’s a lot of fear here,” he said, adding that many young men had received calls from military camps, “inviting them.” He said it was “scary”.

“On top of that, there is family pressure; our families are afraid. When one comes out of the house, there is no security of whether they will return,” he said. “If we want to continue living here, we must be willing to leave the moment when they invite us.”

Al Jazeera reached with several people who were recently detained or questioned, but were afraid of “consequences” if they were talking to the media.

“I don’t know how I was released. My mind is free at the moment and if I talk, I will live in another fear and anxiety: to catch me because I have talked to you, “said one of them.

Habeel Iqbal, a lawyer from the South Kashmir Shopian District, said the police could delay someone to reasonable doubts, but that custody could not exceed 24 hours, within which the suspect should be manufactured before court and explained to him the basics of his arrest and his relatives about his relatives She notified that.

“To close about 500 people, as reports suggest, the investigation seems to be the case of law abuse and an over -police case. We have often seen different protections and rights of disposal detainees violating investigative agencies, “he told Al Jazeera.

Ram Puniyani, a writer and activist headquartered in Mumbai, said the police could not delay such a large amount of people over a mere doubt. “There must be some legal aspect that does not follow. This is a clear violation of human rights,” he told Al Jazeera.

‘Our blood is not cheap’

The mass detention and the death of two civilians also outraged regional politicians, who, after 2019, questioned the claims of New Delhi about “return of normality”.

“My concern is that the police flutter the rule of the law that they should support and protect these people, to somehow become so disgusting that people are afraid of them, not militants. It is a very distorted system,” she told Al Jazeera Mufti Ilty’s Mufti from the National Democratic Party (PDP) as she visited Kathua to meet Din’s family.

Calling recent incidents “very unhappy”, Regional Chief Minister Omar Abdullah – elected in October last year in the region The elections of the first assembly In a decade, he said that he had taken over the issue with New Delhi and “insisted that both incidents be inquired in a timely, transparent way.”

“The regional government will also order his own inquiries,” he added. However, in Kashmir after 2019, tThe authorities of the Chief Minister over the police have drastically diminished because the department directly controls the federal government.

After the death of two civilians, Altaf Thakur, a spokesman for Modi’s Bharatiya Party in Kashmir, told Al Jazeera that his party wants to form a high -level committee to investigate and “perpetrators to be punished.”

“If an innocent person is killed, whether from Kathu or elsewhere, this cannot be tolerated.”

Aakar Patel, Chairman of the Amnesty International Law in India, said Al Jazeera that the Indian government “has no interest in the human rights of Kashmiris.”

“Not answered or responded negatively to each single charging [regional] Police against the staff of the Armed Forces since 1989. He never pulled the immunity of anyone under the protection of the AFSPA, “he said, referring to the Law on Special Authority of the Armed Forces, a draconian Indian law that gives his soldiers the impunity against legal consequences of their works in the region.

Patel said that there should be a review of “policies that have existed since 1989”, which the population of Kashmirius have seen as a “enemy”.

During speech in the Indian Parliament in New Delhi last week, parliamentary Sheikh Abdul Kashmiri condemned the death of peace and Din -ai requested an independent investigation into them.

“Our blood is not cheap,” he said. “We also have the right to live.”