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| MUZAFFAR RAINA |
Srinagar, June 11: Every time Mohammad Ashraf Mattoo felt like leaving India and settling abroad, his dead son’s “innocent face” rose before him. The father of the first victim of last year’s unrest doesn’t find Kashmir safe any longer, but he doesn’t want to leave the fight for justice midway either — despite threats. Teenager Tufail Ahmad Mattoo fell to a tear gas canister fired allegedly by police on June 11 last year, the fatal shot triggering one of the worst phases of unrest Kashmir has seen in decades. Over a hundred people died in the cycle of protests and violence that lasted five months. A year on, Tufail’s father says he is fighting a system that is “interested more in burying the truth than revealing it”. “First they (the government) snatched my son for no fault of his. Then they have been cooking up stories to ensure his killers go scot-free,” sobbed Ashraf, a handicrafts businessman from Srinagar’s Saida Kadal locality. |
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