Trigger warning: This article contains disturbing images. There’s not even a scratch or a bullet mark on his car,” Ahmed said, as he wailed. His family refutes the claim. 3-year-old boy sitting on his grandfather killed in #Kashmir. “I wouldn’t have believed my nephew, but when I went to the police station at Sopore and saw my father’s car, there was not even a single scratch on it. We would have got the point without his misery being filmed & shared so please don’t.”, Amnesty International reacted to the photos of the child - of which one was posted by the J&K Police on Twitter - stating that “by disclosing the identity of a minor witness of a crime, Kashmir Zone police stands in violation of Article 74 of the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015. All we saw was militants jumping from the wall and escaping.”. By News Desk. His three-year-old grandson was seen crying over his grandfather’s body covered in blood. A photo of a toddler sitting on the chest of of his dead grandfather has outraged residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir after the victim’s family accused government forces of shooting the 65-year-old man during a clash with rebels. (AP Photo/ Dar Yasin). The family members of an elderly man who was killed in a shootout in Sopore town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district on Wednesday alleged that he … At the Model Town in Sopore, close to 50 kilometers from Srinagar, residents recounted how the gun battle had played out on Wednesday morning, but they couldn’t say who clicked the photograph. Kashmir editor shot dead in Srinagar alongside bodyguards This article is more than 2 years old Shujaat Bukhari, 50, first journalist to be killed in 12 years in disputed region “He is a child. “At 7.30 in the morning, my mother received a call from the police station that her husband had met with an accident. Hundreds of people in Indian-occupied Kashmir (IoK) staged are protesting a day after Indian forces killed an elderly Kashmiri man in front of his minor grandson. Pakistan denies this, saying it offers only moral and diplomatic support to the militants and to Kashmiris who oppose Indian rule. Twitter. If you have questions The family refutes the claim. Police said the man was killed when rebels fighting against Indian rule shot at paramilitary soldiers from a mosque attic in Sopore. Security forces imposed blockades and a communications blackout on internet and phone service that officials said were necessary to stop anti-India protests and better integrate Kashmir. Heartbreaking images of a 3-year-old boy sitting on the motionless body of his grandfather in Kashmir’s Sopore has emerged from an encounter site. Last week, pictures of a toddler lying on … “We came out of our houses at two in the afternoon when the police had left the place and the encounter was over,” said Shabbir Dar, a resident. Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Omar Abdullah condemned the politics over the unfathomable horror endured by the Kashmiri child. Inshallah, Kashmir (also known as Inshallah, Kashmir: Living Terror) is a 2012 documentary film directed, ... when his grandfather was shot dead by militants. The little boy along with his grandfather got stuck in the crossfire between the two opposing groups (Indians forces & Kashmiri militants) on Wednesday in Sopore, Northern Kashmir. Relatives and neighbors offer prayers near the coffin of civilian Bashir Ahmed Khan, during his funeral on the outskirts of Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, Wednesday, July 1, 2020. Inside the Masjid-e-Ibrahim mosque where the suspected militants were hiding, Shahid, a resident, said, “It was around seven in the morning when we heard the gunshots. SRINAGAR/SOPORE, Jammu and Kashmir — “ Thak, thak ” — family members of a three-year-old who witnessed his grandfather’s violent death in Kashmir on Wednesday say these are the sounds of gunshots that are stuck in his head. By News Desk. Heartbreaking images of a 3-year-old boy sitting on the motionless body of his grandfather in Kashmir’s Sopore has emerged from an encounter site. His three-year-old grandson was also traveling with him. There are bullet marks everywhere,” he added. The grandfather of the Kashmiri boy was identified as Bashir Ahmed and according to sources, he had left to get groceries but was unfortunately caught in the cross fire in Sapore District of Kashmir. AB was accompanying his grandfather when the latter was killed in north Kashmir’s Sopore town in cross fire between militants and government forces on Wednesday morning. Don’t they realise what effect it would have on the child,” said Suhail Ahmad Khan. The boy was seen wailing uncontrollably before cops rushed over to rescue him. A civilian was shot dead after an encounter between paramilitary police and militants in Indian-administered Kashmir. Turn on desktop notifications for breaking stories about interest? In a tweet, Abdullah wrote, “Everything becomes a propaganda tool in the bloody violence in Kashmir. This article originally appeared on VICE IndiaEarly this week, a photo of a three-year-old boy sitting atop his dead grandfather Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said that the barbarism of Indian occupation forces in Kashmir has reached new peaks with the cold blooded killing of a 3 year old child’s grandfather right in front of his eyes. ©2021 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Khan, they say, was killed in the firing by the militants and his grandson was rescued by the troopers. Despite the coronavirus outbreak, violence has escalated in Kashmir in recent months as India has stepped up its counterinsurgency operations. Pictures of the grandson sitting on the dead … Hundreds of angry people staged anti-India protests, accusing the government forces of using the child’s images as a PR stunt. “The police version is a blatant lie. A three year old toddler has to have his misery broadcast to the whole world to drive home the “we good they bad” message. When we reached there, we saw that he had been shot dead,” said the 25-year-old. The ten residents that HuffPost India spoke with said the shooting was too intense for them to have left the house. Indian soldiers shot dead a young man at a checkpoint in the Himalayan region of Kashmir on Wednesday, residents and officials said, triggering anti-India protests and clashes in … A series of pictures by an unidentified photographer were widely shared on social media shortly after the gunbattle. “We also cannot stop him from speaking about what he has seen. The photo of a minor child sitting on his grandfather’s dead body in Occupied Kashmir has shaken the world and is a moment of reflection for human rights activists who have long been silent spectators to the ongoing atrocities in Occupied Kashmir. Facebook. They said the attack killed one soldier and wounded three others. SRINAGAR/SOPORE, Jammu and Kashmir — “Thak, thak” — family members of a three-year-old who witnessed his grandfather’s violent death in Kashmir on Wednesday say these are the sounds of gunshots that are stuck in his head. [https://aje.io/hl779] While he played with his cousins on the stairs of their three storey house in Srinagar, the child’s family’s said that he had told them about Indian paramilitary soldiers telling his grandfather to step out of the car and shooting him in the middle of a gunbattle with suspected militants in the northern town of Sopore. The CRPF says that three paramilitary troopers were injured and one died in the attack. Rebels have been fighting Indian rule since 1989, with tens of thousands of lives lost, including civilians, militants and government forces. The heart-wrenching picture of the incident in which the child was seen sitting on his grandfather's belly went viral on social media. SRINAGAR, India -- A photo of a toddler sitting on the chest of of his dead grandfather has outraged residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir after the victim’s family accused government forces of shooting the 65-year-old man during a clash with rebels in the disputed region. The 60-year-old man was a civilian who was killed in the cross-firing on Wednesday morning in Kashmir when an encounter broke out between militants and security forces. “We don’t want to question the child about his grandfather because this could hurt him even more. Part of HuffPost News. The family of a 65-year-old Kashmiri man say he was shot dead by Indian security forces while driving with his 3-year-old grandson, while Indian police say he was killed in crossfire with rebels. No one dared to come out.”. 24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. The dead CRPF personnel was identified as Deep Chand Verma from the G company of CRPF’s 179th battalion. A picture showing a three-year-old child sitting on his grandfather’s dead body in Sopore town of Indian-administered Kashmir has stirred anger in the Muslim-majority region, with the family of the deceased accusing the security forces of killing the 65-year-old civilian during a gunfight. Suhail Ahmad Khan, Khan’s son, who is pursuing a postgraduate degree in Islamic studies at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, said his father had left from Srinagar for Sopore on Wednesday morning to pick up their domestic help who was unable to travel on her own because of the coronavirus lockdown. “How can they kill a person in front of a child? When anyone takes his grandfather’s name, he says, ‘Papa ko thak thak kiya,’ said Nida Khan, the child’s aunt. 04:22 PM | 1 Jul, 2020 SRINAGAR - Indian occupied forces killed a 65-year-old man in front of his three-year-old grandson in north Kashmir's Sopore town Wednesday. 1 July 2020. The human rights organisation said it is also a breach of the “best interest of the child” principal as required to be the basis of any action by the authorities under the convention on the Rights of the child, to which India is a State Party.”. As the three-year-old played with his cousins a few hours after he had seen his grandfather get shot, family members wondered if this chilling memory would haunt him all his life. Suspected rebels attacked paramilitary soldiers in the Indian portion of Kashmir, killing Khan and a paramilitary soldier, according to government sources. The child’s relatives find themselves at a loss when it comes to consoling him in the aftermath of the violence. Some features are no longer enabled. The civilian who died was a 60-year-old man; he allegedly suffered two bullet injuries and died on the spot. WhatsApp. This article exists as part of the online archive for HuffPost India, which Militants have also continued attacks on government forces and alleged informants. … According to reports, the little helpless kid saw his grandfather getting shot multiple times and die in front of him. Khan’s wife, who suffers from arthritis, was scheduled to have surgery on Thursday. The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) have refuted the family’s allegation that its personnel killed Khan, pinning his death on the militants of the Lashkar-e-Toiba group, who they say were hiding in a mosque near the Model Town Chowk of Sopore and opened fire at paramilitary soldiers on Wednesday. A picture showing a three-year-old child sitting on his grandfather’s dead body in Sopore town of Indian-administered Kashmir has stirred anger in … closed in 2020. The Jammu and Kashmir Police said that reports of the CRPF shooting Khan were “baseless” and threatened legal action against “false reports and rumours.”. The boy was later taken by the army and police personnel as they attended to him post the trauma. As mourners filled their home on Wednesday, family members said that children should not have to see their loved ones being gunned down. or concerns about this article, please contact. A politician and her husband describe the horror of being kidnapped and in captivity for over a month – and despite that, forming a human bond with the militants, and helping them escape when the army closed in on them. The photo of the child sat on the body of his dead grandfather was widely shared on social media. Reader discretion is advised. Nigeena, the wife of a maulvi who lives close to the mosque, said, “The maulvi and I were inside when we heard the gunshots. Kashmir's inspector-general of police, Vijay Kumar, denied the family’s account, saying the man was killed by militant firing. If he was caught in crossfire, his body would have been inside his car or his car would have suffered some damage. Sopore, Jammu And Kashmir: A three-year-old boy survived as his grandfather was killed in a terror attack on the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) … The Indian chapter of Amnesty International criticized the police for disclosing the child's identity, saying it was a violation of juvenile justice and the Convention on the Rights of the Child. 1 July 2020. The identity of the person who clicked the photograph of the child sitting on his dead grandfather’s bloodied chest is not yet known. A photo of a toddler sitting on the chest of of his dead grandfather has outraged residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir after the victim's family accused government forces of shooting the 65-year-old man during a clash with rebels in the disputed region. Kashmir: Child Witness to His Grandfather’s Killing Used for Political Point Scoring 07 Jul 2020 We all came across a heartbreaking picture on social media of an elderly man, lying dead at the roadside, his clean white shirt stained with blood at different points, and an innocent child who seemed to have frozen out of fear, sitting on top of the lifeless body. According to the family, Khan was driving in his car with his grandson from his home in the main city of Srinagar. India and Pakistan both claim the territory in its entirety. "This is such heartlessness, such cruelty.”. Suspected militants attacked paramilitary soldiers in Kashmir, killing a 65-year-old man in Sopore, according to the Jammu and Kashmir Police. SRINAGAR, India -- A photo of a toddler sitting on the chest of of his dead grandfather has outraged residents of Indian-controlled Kashmir after the victim’s family accused government forces of shooting the 65-year-old man during a clash with rebels in the disputed region. Row in Kashmir over viral photo of kid sitting on grandfather’s corpse after militant attack A 65-year-old civil contractor died in Kashmir Wednesday following a militant attack on CRPF personnel. On Tuesday, the photograph of Khan’s grandson sitting on his dead grandfather’s bloodied chest was widely circulated on social media platforms, triggering a tsunami of outrage. Srinagar: The first night after his death was a restless one for the family of Bashir Ahmed Khan, a 65-year-old Srinagar resident killed in the aftermath of a militant attack on CRPF personnel in Kashmir’s Sopore region Wednesday. Read more: Six-year-old boy killed in crossfire in Indian occupied Kashmir. Also during the day, hundreds of people in Indian-administered Kashmir staged protests, accusing government forces of killing a man during a rebel attack which also left a trooper dead. There is no reason for him to lie or exaggerate,” said Suhail Ahmad Khan, the boy’s 25-year-old uncle, and the son of the man who was killed. If he were killed in the crossfire then there should have been bloodstains or shards of the window panes, but I couldn’t see anything in the car” he said. He wants to tell everyone.”. BJP spokesperson denounced after mocking photo of dead Kashmiri citizen The family of Bashir Ahmed Khan allege that he was caught in the crossfire … Faye Brown Thursday 2 Jul 2020 1:30 pm A picture showing a three-year-old child sitting on his grandfather’s dead body in Sopore, Kashmir, has stirred anger in … Relations between India and Pakistan have been strained further over Kashmir since last August, when India stripped the portion of Kashmir it administers of its status as a semi-autonomous state. The family of Bashir Ahmed Khan has said that he was dragged out of his car and shot dead by Indian paramilitary troopers. Bashir Ahmad Khan, 65, was a civil contractor living with his wife and children in Srinagar. Experts say that children in Kashmir are being increasingly exposed to violence, which has plagued the region for decades. India accuses Pakistan of arming and training the anti-India rebels. He has told us what he saw. At least 143 rebels, 54 government troops and 32 civilians have been killed in more than 100 military operations across Kashmir since January, the Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, a prominent local rights group, said in a recent report. Suhail Ahmed, the victim's son, said on Thursday that his father, Bashir Ahmed Khan, was “dragged out of his car and shot in cold blood” in front of his 3-year-old grandson during a gunbattle Wednesday between Indian troops and rebels in northwestern Sopore town. We didn’t muster the courage to go out and check what had happened. One of the photos showed a policeman holding the child in his lap and another showed the crying toddler, blood stains on his shirt and cookies in both of his hands, inside a police jeep. His family claims he was dragged out of his car and killed. The 65-year-old man, Bashir Ahmed Khan, was killed after a shootout between militants and Indian paramilitaries in the northern town of Sopore. He said troops later placed the child on his father's chest and took pictures. Heartbreaking! At a press conference in Srinagar on Wednesday, the Inspector General of Police Vijay Kumar, while refuting the allegations of the family, said “The video messages circulated on social media by the son and daughter of the slain man is totally baseless.”. The tensions in Kashmir come after a deadly face-off between Indian and Chinese soldiers June 15 along the Asian giants' disputed border in Ladakh that left 20 Indian soldiers dead. Muslim Kashmiris generally support the rebels' goal of uniting the territory, either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country. His mother, Suhail Ahmad Khan said, was the retired Station House Officer (SHO) of the Women Police Station at Baramulla. “Look at how they have damaged the mosque. To hell with the police, to hell with the militants. The reports claim, the three-year-old boy witnessed the killing of his grandfather when he suffered bullet injuries during the crossfire between the Indian armed forces and militants in Kashmir on Wednesday. The Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Sopore, Javaid Iqbal, told Outlook that who clicked the photo is a matter of investigation. A three-year-old boy sitting on the body of his dead grandfather in Kashmir breaks hearts. He said troops rescued the child during the fighting and accused the family of blaming the government forces under militant pressure.