An Army chopper came minutes past noon and circled over a gathering of several thousand men, women and children who were waiting for the body of a militant at Rakh Kapran village of Shopian. On an unusually tense day, the chopper was the only sign of government’s presence and its writ in the district, which is located on the southern edge of the Kashmir valley. As the chopper flew away after briefly circling in the air, the militant’s body arrived in a procession at a ground where mourners had gathered…
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