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14 July 03 to July 09 2017 : Weekly News Magazine messenger

COVER STORY

forces

feeding magnitude of casualties in eight

days
A population of around seven
million in the state has been forced
India to Kashmiris to stay indoors. Yes, they are
virtually under house arrest for last
eight days. Meaning workplaces
An estimated 5,000 people are injured, an overwhelming have been shut, schools closed
majority of them in the age group of 15 to 25. At least 380 of them and labourers, shikarawalas, taxi drivers, hawkers, roadside
have lost their vision. And 75 are dead. All this in the span of eight vendors without their daily wages. Meaning many without their
days. To be precise from July 9 to 16, 2016. Unprecedented! daily meals. In Kashmir families also include, like in rest of the
world, children and elderly and in many cases sick as well.
Unprecedented because in the recent past (since civilian rule On Friday I got a distress call from a student in Bangalore
was restored) Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) has not witnessed this pleading for help as he had run out of money and could not