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It is a sentiment echoed by a series of observers and human rights activists, who also allege that the killing of Burhan sent the Indian media into a jingoistic frenzy.
Mirza Waheed, a Kashmiri novelist based in London, said in some cases, "one could not tell the difference between the media and state apparatus".
But Gautam Navlakha, from the People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR), described the silence from India's civil society over the events of the past three days as particularly problematic.
"There seems to be a conflation between extremism and the Kashmiri right to self determination. People seem to reduce all dissent in Kashmir to radical Islam, but the situation in Kashmir is different," Navlakha, a human rights activist based in Delhi, said.
"They dont realise that hearts and minds of the people there are not with India, and this is a fact," he said.
The state government and police have accused mobs of attacking security forces [EPA]
According to Kashmiri civil society, the death toll is likely to rise, with local media reporting the number of dead could be as high as 22.
They have also accused troops of disproportionate violence and for implementing a "shoot to kill" policy. One doctor at the SKIMS hospital in Srinagar confirmed to Al Jazeera that patients with bullet wounds had all been hit from the waist up.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the doctor said there were at least four other patients in a critical condition at the hospital.
"There are people still coming in with injuries, first they came from north and south Kashmir, now they are coming from Srinagar itself, suffering mostly from pellets wounds," he said.
Responding to accusations of disproportionate violence, Naeem Akhtar, spokesperson of the state of Jammu & Kashmir state government suggested that security forces may have been justified in using force as method of self-defence.
"There have been attacks on barracks and camps [...] if there are a mob of a 1000 people attacking a group of 10-15, what do you expect them to do?" he said to Al Jazeera, adding that there would be an investigation into the matter.
On Saturday, police had said that angry crowds set fire to three police stations and two government buildings south of Srinagar, and blocked roads.
If people knew how India has denied them their rights, people will realise that this is a political problem needing a political solution
Dilnaz Boga, independent journalist,
At least one police officer has been killed. K. Rajendra Kumar, the director general of Jammu and Kashmir Police said around 100 members of the security forces had been wounded. Three officers were also still missing.
But Waheed says security forces are able to act with such brutality because they know they will never be prosecuted for their actions.
"When it happened in 2010, no one was held accountable for the violence ... and so they do it again, and again," Waheed said, referring to the protests of summer 2010 when Kashmir plummeted into months of protests. More than 120 young people died that year.
According to Dilnaz Boga, an independent journalist based in Mumbai, given India's relationship with the United States, France, Israel and United Kingdom in the so-called war against terror, no condemnation from the world's powers is likely to be forthcoming.
The problem is rooted in a lack of understanding and censorship over the story of Kashmiri resistance.
"If people knew how India has denied them their rights, people will realise that this is a political problem needing a political solution," she told Al Jazeera.
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- http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/kashmiris-decry-world-silence-killings-160710165312853.html
