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unarmed agitation more fierce than the armed rebellion against Indian rule two decades earlier. And apparently aware of the post 9/11 world, young
Kashmiris, children of the conflict, made stones and rocks a weapon of choice against government armed forces, side-stepping the tag of a terrorist movement linked with Pakistan. The unrest represents a conscious transition to an unarmed mass movement, one that poses a moral challenge to
395:. The posters listed various points, including threatening to burn girls alive for riding scooters. The text read as – "we request all girls please don't use of scooty if we saw any girl who ride scooty we will burn the scooty as well as the girl". Kashmiri media blackened out the report of the threats, but it was carried by media agencies and houses such as
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people. Security forces also face injuries, and sometimes get beaten up during these events. Large number of these. According to political activist Mannan
Bukhari, Kashmiris made stone, an easily accessible and defenseless weapon, their weapon of choice for protest. Incidents have been there where Kashmiri youth was hired during protests for stone pelting.
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has said, "In fact, I wish these people, instead of throwing stones at us, were firing weapons at us. Then I would have been happy. Then I could do what I (want to do)," referring to the 'dirty' nature of the proxy war and the need to protect electoral apparatus, and stating his perception post the
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district who confessed on camera that they are paid an amount of Rs. 5,000-Rs 7,000 a month and are also provided with clothes and shoes. One of them also said that separate funds are given for making petrol bombs. They refused to disclose the identity of the financiers. In April 2017, a report by
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The summer of 2010 witnessed a convulsion in the world's most militarized zone, the Indian-controlled part of
Kashmir, an unprecedented and deadly civil unrest that is beginning to change a few things on the ground. Little known and relatively anonymous resistance activists emerged, organizing an
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disguised themselves as stone-pelters and mingled among a stone pelting mob in
Srinagar, resulting in the successful arrests of repeat stone-pelting offenders. The policemen threw stones as well as used toy guns as part of the disguise. This strategy had previously been used by the police in the
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in which the separatist movement had taken a new dimension from gun-fighting with armed forces to the pelting of stones on them. After the year 2008, stone pelting incidents in the valley were reported on regular basis, the prominent among them were recorded in
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to fuel unrest in the Valley. As per the report, the funds supplied by the ISI were used to pay off stone-pelters and petrol bomb throwers, and also to propagate anti-India and anti-security forces sentiments in the Valley.
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Child Safety, Welfare and Well-being: Issues and Challenges
685:"Stone pelting tool of resistance in Kashmir: Hurriyat (G)"
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638:"Kashmir Shuts To Remember Afzal Guru – Local News"
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454:"Stone Pelting and Kashmiri Youth"
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363:Border Roads Organisation (BRO)
101:Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir
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