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Trikanjan, Kashmir: Nestled deep inside the Pir Panjal mountains in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, Badion Trikanjan, a non-descript village has refused to bury the dead bodies of three Pakistani militants killed in an encounter at Hajin Bandipora last week.
The residents of Badion, a hamlet of perhaps a hundred tin-roofed houses among terraced fields on left of the Jhelum river in Uri — 95 kilometres north of Srinagar — the summer capital of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, say they are worried about the future of their children who might be attracted to militancy, if foreign militants are buried in their village.
The area in Badion village, where the police wanted to bury
three LeT militants. Firstpost/Sameer Yasir
On Friday, when police brought dead bodies of three militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) — an Islamist terrorist group based in Pakistan that fights mainly in Kashmir- killed in an encounter with security forces in Hajin area of Bandipora, the residents of this hamlet came on streets and stopped police from burying the dead bodies of Pakistani militants.
Early on Sunday morning, Khazeer Mohammad, walked down a pine tree-lined hilly road curiously looking at the five graves of militants, who where buried here last year, sandwiched between tall pine trees on the left side of the road which goes to the last village on the Line of Control between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.
Mohammad said the police first brought the two militants killed on the LoC, when they were trying to infiltrate and then three more, whom the villagers allowed to be buried behind an empty single-storey government building. But then they brought three more and that led to palpable tension between the police and the villagers.
“When they brought three new dead bodies again on Friday we told them (police) this is a peaceful area, tomorrow when young people of this village look at these graves, their blood will start boiling. And for that reason, we didn’t allowed them to bury the dead bodies here.” Mohammad, 47, a resident of the village told Firstpost.
“We don’t want this to become another Chahal and be branded as a place for unmarked graves. No one is sure who these people are,” another resident, Ghulam Hussain Khan, said.
Before that, most of the foreign militants and unidentified people killed in encounters and gunfights — people whose dead bodies no one would claim in Kashmir — were brought to Kitchama, a village four Kilometers south of Chahal, that graveyard too become filled with militants. And then the police ultimately stopped getting bodies to the village.
After the villagers refuse to bury the dead bodies of three militants on Friday in Trikanjan, the police was forced to bury these three LeT men near a police station in Boniyar.
The refusal by this village has put the police in a dilemma over where to bury the foreign nationals (Pakistanis) — killed in gunfights with security forces in Kashmir.
Gareeb Das, the deputy inspector-general of police in Baramulla said if the dead bodies are allowed to be handed over to the locals in any place, it becomes a law and order problem for the police. Since there are no legal claimants, we bury them in far-off places. (And therefore these aren't Kashmiris but Pakistanis as they cannot be identified and are unclaimed. Had they been Kashmiris, the Hurriyat and their yahoos would have gone to town on this and claimed the bodies and organised processions. Another proof of the LeT and JeM from across creating trouble under the command of the Pakistani Establishment).
“In this case, we didn’t want to have a confrontation with local people. We passed instructions to the local police not to use any kind of force on the people. We don’t want to get them in trouble, as we are sensitive to the demands of the people,” Das told Firstpost in Baramulla.
“Their faces were disfigured; they were from LeT and killed in an encounter in Hajin. It was a recent group that had infiltrated into this side (of the LoC),” he added.
Firstpost Exclusive: Why a village in Kashmir refused to bury the dead bodies of Pakistani militants - Firstpost
Pretty embarrassing for many across the border, what? General Hafiz Saeed must be pulling his beard apart!
P.S What's written within brackets is mine.
The residents of Badion, a hamlet of perhaps a hundred tin-roofed houses among terraced fields on left of the Jhelum river in Uri — 95 kilometres north of Srinagar — the summer capital of the state of Jammu and Kashmir, say they are worried about the future of their children who might be attracted to militancy, if foreign militants are buried in their village.
The area in Badion village, where the police wanted to bury
three LeT militants. Firstpost/Sameer Yasir
On Friday, when police brought dead bodies of three militants of Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) — an Islamist terrorist group based in Pakistan that fights mainly in Kashmir- killed in an encounter with security forces in Hajin area of Bandipora, the residents of this hamlet came on streets and stopped police from burying the dead bodies of Pakistani militants.
Early on Sunday morning, Khazeer Mohammad, walked down a pine tree-lined hilly road curiously looking at the five graves of militants, who where buried here last year, sandwiched between tall pine trees on the left side of the road which goes to the last village on the Line of Control between India and Pakistan in Kashmir.
Mohammad said the police first brought the two militants killed on the LoC, when they were trying to infiltrate and then three more, whom the villagers allowed to be buried behind an empty single-storey government building. But then they brought three more and that led to palpable tension between the police and the villagers.
“When they brought three new dead bodies again on Friday we told them (police) this is a peaceful area, tomorrow when young people of this village look at these graves, their blood will start boiling. And for that reason, we didn’t allowed them to bury the dead bodies here.” Mohammad, 47, a resident of the village told Firstpost.
“We don’t want this to become another Chahal and be branded as a place for unmarked graves. No one is sure who these people are,” another resident, Ghulam Hussain Khan, said.
Before that, most of the foreign militants and unidentified people killed in encounters and gunfights — people whose dead bodies no one would claim in Kashmir — were brought to Kitchama, a village four Kilometers south of Chahal, that graveyard too become filled with militants. And then the police ultimately stopped getting bodies to the village.
After the villagers refuse to bury the dead bodies of three militants on Friday in Trikanjan, the police was forced to bury these three LeT men near a police station in Boniyar.
The refusal by this village has put the police in a dilemma over where to bury the foreign nationals (Pakistanis) — killed in gunfights with security forces in Kashmir.
Gareeb Das, the deputy inspector-general of police in Baramulla said if the dead bodies are allowed to be handed over to the locals in any place, it becomes a law and order problem for the police. Since there are no legal claimants, we bury them in far-off places. (And therefore these aren't Kashmiris but Pakistanis as they cannot be identified and are unclaimed. Had they been Kashmiris, the Hurriyat and their yahoos would have gone to town on this and claimed the bodies and organised processions. Another proof of the LeT and JeM from across creating trouble under the command of the Pakistani Establishment).
“In this case, we didn’t want to have a confrontation with local people. We passed instructions to the local police not to use any kind of force on the people. We don’t want to get them in trouble, as we are sensitive to the demands of the people,” Das told Firstpost in Baramulla.
“Their faces were disfigured; they were from LeT and killed in an encounter in Hajin. It was a recent group that had infiltrated into this side (of the LoC),” he added.
Firstpost Exclusive: Why a village in Kashmir refused to bury the dead bodies of Pakistani militants - Firstpost
Pretty embarrassing for many across the border, what? General Hafiz Saeed must be pulling his beard apart!
P.S What's written within brackets is mine.
