“I asked them where my son was, they alluded to three shrouds.”
Bashir Ahmad Gogjoo visits three different graveyards to offer prayers for his son.Twenty year old Shakir Ahmad Gogjoo was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with Indian armed forces in June 2017, barely two months after he had joined the ranks of rebels fighting India's rule in disputed Kashmir.
“After he joined Mujahideen [rebels], we knew he will achieve martyrdom,” Bashir, who sports salt-and-pepper stubble, says. “They [India's army] killed him, but they should not have mutilated his body.” “We had no option. We buried the broken bones and burnt flesh in our graveyard,” Bashir says. “I can’t say with certainty that the mortal remains we buried in the grave were that of Shakir.”
emailed questions to the Indian army’s defence spokesman regarding the allegations of mutilation of bodies levelled by the families, local residents and also a top pro-India politician, but had received no response by the time this story was published. It's only after the ruling BJP pulled out of an alliance with Mufti's Peoples Democratic Party in June 2018, bringing down her government, that the jilted politician started questioning the BJP.
An elderly Kashmiri woman wails as she carries burnt belongings salvaged from her damaged house on the outskirts of Srinagar, in April 2007. The Indian army has destroyed several residential houses in a bid to kill local and foreign militants in India administered Kashmir.
A group of villagers went to the district police station to fetch the bodies of the slain rebels, one sister said. “Shahjahan's whole body was wrapped in a white bandage. The army had set his body on fire. All the men were shocked to see it and unable to identify the corpse.”
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