Tag Archives: ‘What is going on in Kashmir?’: Families dispute Indian claims youths killed in ‘encounter’ were fighters

In a rare protest, the families of two teenage boys and a young man, killed in Indian-occupied Kashmir on Wednesday by government forces during an alleged firefight, have denied they were fighters. Police said the trio were killed in a 20-hour gun battle on the outskirts of the region’s main city of Srinagar after they were cornered inside a home …

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