Indian forces’ crossfire killed a Kashmiri grandfather, not ‘terrorists’

Evidence

That little Kashmiri boy was not sitting on the ground. Despite what India showed us with its fictive frames, he was not alone. He sat on the stomach of his grandfather’s limp body. The grandfather, Bashir Ahmed, was dead. He had been murdered. … Bashir Ahmed was killed by crossfire that would not have taken place had Indian military not been in Kashmir. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 500

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

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Broader Connections

• Indian media weaponized doctored images of a Kashmiri boy to justify occupation #corroborates (0.60) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 496