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Indiscriminate use of pellet shotguns on peaceful processions violates international human rights standards on the necessity and proportionality of use of force.
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Due to their inherently inaccurate nature, pellet shotguns have been responsible for blinding, killing and traumatizing thousands of people in Kashmir.
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This human cost of the government’s heavy-handed crackdown in Kashmir has previous been documented by Amnesty International India in the report Losing Sight In Kashmir: The Impact Of Pellet Firing Shot Guns.
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Thread !!!
India is bidding for non permanent member for UNSC seat on June 17th during the 74th session at @UNGA. India does not deserve UNSC seat as it has illegally revoked article 370,35A, violated Article 19,27,32 ,49 of 4th Geneva Convention and various @UNSCN resolution
India is bidding for non permanent member for UNSC seat on June 17th during the 74th session at @UNGA. India does not deserve UNSC seat as it has illegally revoked article 370,35A, violated Article 19,27,32 ,49 of 4th Geneva Convention and various @UNSCN resolution
India should be held accountable for its grave breaches of intl humanitarian law and warcrimes in Kashmir & to take steps to settle the decades old dispute. Keep tweeting abt Indian atrocities & tag international media outlets & activists. Raise your voices at international level
This week, 19 month old Hiba was hit by pellets.
On Sunday, during an encounter between militants and security forces in Kapran village of Shopian district in North #Kashmir, Hiba and her family were hit in the volley of the pellets.
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On Sunday, during an encounter between militants and security forces in Kapran village of Shopian district in North #Kashmir, Hiba and her family were hit in the volley of the pellets.
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Security forces used tear gas canisters, pellets & firearms during the clashes. Marsala, Hiba's mother, took her & her brother out of their house as they were suffocating from the tear gas. As they came out of their house a volley of pellets came their way.bbc.in/2E1ybDV
One pellet hit Hiba in her right eye and hit her mother's right hand while she was trying to protect Hiba.
In 2017, we highlighted 88 similar cases that illustrated how pellet firing shotguns are inherently inaccurate weapons & should be banned.
amnesty.org.in/losing-sight-k…
In 2017, we highlighted 88 similar cases that illustrated how pellet firing shotguns are inherently inaccurate weapons & should be banned.
amnesty.org.in/losing-sight-k…
