‘Forces were Frisking Dead, Snatching Golden Earrings’ : May 21, 1990

“Bodies were lying all around me. Blood was profusely oozing out from my legs. I held my breath, acted as dead and was shocked to see security personnel frisking the pockets of dead and robbing them of their belongings,” a witness of 21 May, 1990, Srinagar bloodshed shared the horror with Current News Service. Tahir Ahmed Baba, a resident of Mashal Mohalla Hawal, was 17 when on 21 May 1990 he heard that gunmen in Old Srinagar had assassinated Mirwaiz Muhammad Farooq. Forces personnel killed scores of mourners by firing…

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