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.
greaterkashmir.com/news/life-styl…
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…
Hiba is a reminder of the human cost of the government’s heavy-handed crackdown in Kashmir.
India must #BanPelletGuns.
Danish, Hiba and now Sohanjeet - we said it before and we will say it again: pellet firing shotguns have no place in India.
We urge the new Government to #BanPelletGuns.
kashmirlife.net/now-there-is-a…
Hundreds have been blinded.
But they keep saying "pellet shotguns are non-lethal."
Pellet firing shotguns should have no place in law enforcement.
#BanPelletGuns
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