Deadly ‘non-lethal’ weapon life risk for civilians, cops Harvey Allen in Toward the Flame: A Memoir of World War-I writes, “It was remarked as a joke that if someone yelled ‘Gas’, everyone in France would put on a mask. … Gas shock was as frequent as shell shock.” Not much has changed for the people of Kashmir who are as shell shocked today due to the excessive use of pepper gas by police and paramilitary forces. The rampant use of the “non-lethal” pepper gas is becoming deadly for people in…
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