Last week, shots rang out in downtown Srinagar again. At Fateh Kadal on October 17, two militants, a civilian and a policemen were killed in a gunfight, the first that downtown Srinagar has seen in years. Scores of demonstrators both old and young ended up in hospital with pellet injuries. At the peripheries of the gunfight, journalists were reportedly beaten up.
Watching the situation unfold, my mind’s eye hovered back to the downtown of the 1990s.
That's how Mir Khalid begins an article on Scroll which looks back on the violence he witnessed in Srinagar's old city in the 1990s. Here's the link: scroll.in/article/898969/the-battles-of-downtown-srinagar-a-resident-looks-back-on-a-decade-of-bloodshed
Watching the situation unfold, my mind’s eye hovered back to the downtown of the 1990s.
That's how Mir Khalid begins an article on Scroll which looks back on the violence he witnessed in Srinagar's old city in the 1990s. Here's the link: scroll.in/article/898969/the-battles-of-downtown-srinagar-a-resident-looks-back-on-a-decade-of-bloodshed
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