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Thursday 4 May 2017

A bottle of milk in Damascus / Cruel springtime in Kashmir

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Sharing the Love, Sharing a Bottle of Milk | by Take a look on Syria without propaganda

Damascus. Sharing the Love, Sharing a Bottle of Milk. I was walking in one of the death-ridden streets of Damascus when I came across these two beautiful children sitting on the sidewalk and selling bread. They were sharing a small bottle of Papay milk, a popular brand in Damascus. Many Syrian children do not attend school and are working to be able to help their families to survive in a place where Assad and his allies Russia and Iran are not giving up until they force all Syrian people to flee and leave their own cities and become refugees.: photo by Dimashqi Lens, 22 March 2017

2017-05-02_11-14-34 | by chrjs.0510

  China 5.2017: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 27 April 2017

2017-05-02_11-14-34 | by chrjs.0510

  China 5.2017: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 27 April 2017

2017-05-02_11-14-34 | by chrjs.0510

  China 5.2017: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 27 April 2017


 U.S. Army photographer Spc. Hilda Clayton captures her own death in mortar explosion: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 3 May 2017

your innocent windshield
 remembers the life of that bug
    but isn't losing any sleep over it
and those deer better step lively in your path
over the dark asphalt where no sound exists save
the noise you make
as if blown toward me like metal leaves
from the three districts whence the smoke arose  
back
     then
and now arises again 
                    in the aqueous urban dawn 
of a nation consecrated to death
                               this much at least we will be able to trust
and when we are gone from this environment of death, and these disturbances you have interjected,
your beautiful inventions,
have continued to do their work somewhere, suffering
and causing suffering
outside our brains
and beyond our minds, 
this is perhaps the one thing we will have been able to trust, in the night of the quiet bug 
startled by the light of the generous man
 
 


#USA A streak of light trails off into the sky as the US military test fires an unarmed intercontinental ballistic missile. Photo Ringo H.W. Chiu #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2017


A child in Ain Issa camp one of the thousand's of #IDPs who have fled #IslamicState in #Raqqa Photo @Delilsouleman @AFPphoto: image via Sunday Times Pictures @STPictures, 2 May 2017


#instantané Un enfant syrien dans le camp de déplacés d'Aïn Issa, au nord de Raqa Photo @Delilsouleman #AFP: image via Agence France-Presse @afpfr, 2 May 2017 


SYRIA - Syrians fleeing IS fighters arrive at a temporary camp in Ain Issa. Photo @Delilsoiuleman #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2017
 

SYRIA - Grief-stricken men cry next to bodies wrapped in body bags at the site of a reported car bomb explosion in Azaz. Photo @ZeinAlRifai #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2017
 

SYRIA - People unload supplies from a Syrian Arab Red Crescent truck in the rebel-held town of Douma, near Damascus. Photo @AbdDoumany #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2017

We don't fear bombing! | by Take a look on Syria without propaganda

Eastern Ghouta. We don't fear bombing! The 5 boys pictured here laughed at me when I asked them "Aren't you afraid of all the bombings happening right now in your neighborhood?" They smiled and answered: ""No, we aren't. It's in the next street." These boys are among the majority of children who live in besieged areas, like the Ghouta area in rural Damascus where this picture was taken. They no longer fear death, but rather try to live as fully as possible, because they are surrounded daily by frequent reminders that death hides in every corner and could strike at any moment.: photo by Dimashqi Lens, 3 May 2017

We don't fear bombing! | by Take a look on Syria without propaganda

Eastern Ghouta. We don't fear bombing! The 5 boys pictured here laughed at me when I asked them "Aren't you afraid of all the bombings happening right now in your neighborhood?" They smiled and answered: ""No, we aren't. It's in the next street." These boys are among the majority of children who live in besieged areas, like the Ghouta area in rural Damascus where this picture was taken. They no longer fear death, but rather try to live as fully as possible, because they are surrounded daily by frequent reminders that death hides in every corner and could strike at any moment.: photo by Dimashqi Lens, 3 May 2017

We don't fear bombing! | by Take a look on Syria without propaganda

Eastern Ghouta. We don't fear bombing! The 5 boys pictured here laughed at me when I asked them "Aren't you afraid of all the bombings happening right now in your neighborhood?" They smiled and answered: ""No, we aren't. It's in the next street." These boys are among the majority of children who live in besieged areas, like the Ghouta area in rural Damascus where this picture was taken. They no longer fear death, but rather try to live as fully as possible, because they are surrounded daily by frequent reminders that death hides in every corner and could strike at any moment.: photo by Dimashqi Lens, 3 May 2017

Bombing his own people | by Take a look on Syria without propaganda

Bombing his own people. Qaboun, Damascus. An air strike on Qaboun neighborhood by Assad's forces. Assad has been murdering his own people since the beginning of the popular protests in 2011 to suppress them and hold onto his position as president.: photo by Dimashqi Lens, 27 February 2017

Bombing his own people | by Take a look on Syria without propaganda

Bombing his own people. Qaboun, Damascus. An air strike on Qaboun neighborhood by Assad's forces. Assad has been murdering his own people since the beginning of the popular protests in 2011 to suppress them and hold onto his position as president.: photo by Dimashqi Lens, 27 February 2017

Bombing his own people | by Take a look on Syria without propaganda

Bombing his own people. Qaboun, Damascus. An air strike on Qaboun neighborhood by Assad's forces. Assad has been murdering his own people since the beginning of the popular protests in 2011 to suppress them and hold onto his position as president.: photo by Dimashqi Lens, 27 February 2017

And the battle of the silent Damascus started.. | by Take a look on Syria without propaganda

And the battle of the silent Damascus started... Barzeh, Damascus, the capital of Syria. Damascus may finally breathe freedom again, after 46 years under the rule of the dictator Assad.: photo by Dimashqi Lens, 22 March 2017 
 
And the battle of the silent Damascus started.. | by Take a look on Syria without propaganda

And the battle of the silent Damascus started... Barzeh, Damascus, the capital of Syria. Damascus may finally breathe freedom again, after 46 years under the rule of the dictator Assad.: photo by Dimashqi Lens, 22 March 2017

And the battle of the silent Damascus started.. | by Take a look on Syria without propaganda

And the battle of the silent Damascus started... Barzeh, Damascus, the capital of Syria. Damascus may finally breathe freedom again, after 46 years under the rule of the dictator Assad.: photo by Dimashqi Lens, 22 March 2017


#Afghanistan Powerful blast targets NATO convoy in Kabul Photo @kohsar: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2017


#Iraq A damaged building on the front line in Mosul's Old City during an offensive to retake the city from IS group fighters. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2017



#Iraq A member of the Iraqi security forces is reflected in a mirror while holding a position on the front line in Mosul. Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2017

 
#Iraq A member of the Iraqi forces rests on the hood of an armoured vehicle during a patrol in west Mosul.  Photo Ahmad Al-Rubaye #MosulOffensive: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 May 2017
 
Iraq mosul

Mosul residents reach out for freshly baked cookies at a food distribution point inside western Mosul, Iraq, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Thousands of people still live in the western part of the city where food is getting scarce due to fighting between Iraqi forces and the Islamic State group.: photo by Bram Janssen/AP, 2 May 2017


#South Sudan A child suffering from cholera drinks water at a specialized hospital near the Mingkaman Internally Displaced People camp. Photo @AFPphoto: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 May 2017


#South Sudan A boy suffering from cholera drinks water at a specialized hospital near the Mingkaman Internally Displaced People camp. Photo @AFPphoto: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 2 May 2017


#Macedonia Protesters enter the parliament building after breaking through a police cordon. By Boris Grdanoski @AP_Images
: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 2 May 2017

Venezuela Political Crisis

A woman rests on a tire at a roadblock set up by residents outside her home in El Hatillo's municipality near Caracas, Venezuela, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Residents blocked streets with trash bags, broken concrete and twisted metal Tuesday to protest the president's bid to rewrite the constitution amid a deepening political crisis.: photo by Fernando Llano/AP, 2 May 2017

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Spain Soccer Champions League

Real Madrid supporters gather around the stadium before the Champions League semifinal first leg soccer match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium in Madrid, Spain, Tuesday, May 2, 2017.: photo by Francisco Seco/AP, 2 May 2017

South Korea Koreas Tension Smart Cookie

A TV screen shows images of the U.S. President Donald Trump, left, and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during a news program at the Seoul Railway Station in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. South Koreans are bewildered by President Donald Trump’s recent use of the term “smart cookie” to refer to current leader Kim Jong Un, and by Trump’s assertion that he’d be “honored” by a possible meeting.: photo by Ahn Young-joon/AP, 2 May 2017


South #Korea The US and South Korea conduct joint military exercises in Pocheon. By @KimHongji: image via Photojournalism @photojournalink, 2 May 2017

Police Shooting Louisiana

Damon Brumfield, a student at Southern University of Baton Rouge, poses while his friends take photos, in front of a mural honoring Alton Sterling, outside the Triple S Food Mart in Baton Rouge, La., Tuesday, May 2, 2017. The U.S. Justice Department has decided not to charge two white Baton Rouge police officers in the death of Sterling, whose death was captured on cell phone video, fueling protests in Louisiana's capital and beyond.: photo by Gerald Herbert/AP, 2 May 2017

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New depth to @ruddyroye Triple S Mart image as DOJ fails #AltonSterling. To channel fire w endless grace. #Baton Rouge: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 3 May 2017  

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 Coverage of #AltonSterling's death was this graphic for a reason. DOJ decision not to prosecute equates to amnesia.: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 3 May 2017 

Trump

President Donald Trump walks from the Rose Garden back to the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 2, 2017, following a presentation ceremony of the Commander-in-Chief trophy to the Air Force Academy football team.: photo by Susan Walsh/AP, 2 May 2017

Brazil Violence

A police officer aims his weapon at people looting a truck allegedly set on fire by drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 2, 2017. Several public buses and cargo trucks were torched in Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday in what Brazilian military police said was likely gang retaliation for a large anti-drug operation: photo by Silvia Izquierdo/AP, 2 May 2016


Israeli children play on a tank displayed by the Israeli military as part of Independence Day celebrations, near Tel Aviv. @arielschalit: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 2 May 2017 


A team of window washers descend on ropes as they clean an office building in Beijing, May 2, 2017. #APPhoto by Mark Schiefelbein: image via AP Images @AP_Images, 2 May 2017
 
India Muslim Killed
Relatives of Ghulam Mohammad mourn at his residence in village Sohi, in Uttar Pradesh state's Bulandshahar district, India, Wednesday, May 3, 2017. Indian police have detained three members of a Hindu militia for suspected involvement in the killing of the Muslim man who they blamed for helping an interfaith couple elope. The detained men belong to the Hindu Yuva Vahini, or the Hindu Youth Brigade, which was set up by Hindu priest Yogi Adityanath, who Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently named chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, India's most-populous state.: photo by Altaf Qadri/AP, 3 May 2017

Untitled | by Md Enamul Kabir

Untitled. Dhaka, Bangladesh.: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 21 April 2017

Untitled | by Md Enamul Kabir

Untitled. Dhaka, Bangladesh.: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 21 April 2017

Untitled | by Md Enamul Kabir

Untitled. Dhaka, Bangladesh.: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 21 April 2017

Street | Dhaka | 2017 | by Sohail Bin Mohammad

Street | Dhaka | 2017: photo by Sohail Bin Mohammad, 28 April 2017

floating into the night / dream of the broken-hearted (Industrial Symphony No. 1) | by find myself a city (1001 Afternoons in Chicago)

floating into the night /  dream of the brokenhearted (Industrial Symphony No.1) (Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport): photo by curtis locke, 29 April 2017

before the screening of Industrial Symphony No. 1 at David Lynch film retrospective (Music Box Theatre) | by find myself a city (1001 Afternoons in Chicago)

before the screening of Industrial Symphony No.1 at David Lynch film retrospective (Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport): photo by curtis locke, 28 April 2017

Stickney | by find myself a city (1001 Afternoons in Chicago)

Stickney. SW corner of Pershing and Laramie, Stickney, Il.: photo by curtis locke, 24 April 2017


A faint rainbow can be seen above the White House as the sun sets in Washington. #rainbow #washington #whitehouse #rain #sunset
: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 1 May 2017



President Donald Trump walks out of the Oval Office in the days leading up to Trump’s 100 days in office. #trump #100DaysOfTrump: image via Andrew Harnik @andyharnik, 29 April 2017


President @realDonaldTrump arrives to speak to the @NRA Leadership Forum in Atlanta: image via Evan Vucci @evanvucci, 28 April 2017


200 refugees are crossing Mexico to escape violence -- and to confront Trump: image via Mother Jones @MotherJones, 1 May 2017

#FUCKDonaldTrump. | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

  #FUCKDonaldTrump [Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 5 March 2017

#FUCKDonaldTrump. | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

  #FUCKDonaldTrump [Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 5 March 2017

#FUCKDonaldTrump. | by Sakulchai Sikitikul

  #FUCKDonaldTrump [Songkhla, Thailand]: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 5 March 2017
 
* | by shah toufiqur rahman ovi

#4: photo by shah toufiqur rahman ovi, 27 April 2017

#4 | by shah toufiqur rahman ovi

#4: photo by shah toufiqur rahman ovi, 27 April 2017

#4 | by shah toufiqur rahman ovi

#4: photo by shah toufiqur rahman ovi, 27 April 2017

#4 | by shah toufiqur rahman ovi

#4: photo by shah toufiqur rahman ovi, 27 April 2017

01 | by Jamie Fyson Howard

01 [Easter, Warsaw]: photo by Jamie Howard, 15 April 2017

Untitled | by Md. Imam Hasan

[Dhaka]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 15 April 2017

Buenos Aires, 2017 | by Ova Hamer
 
Buenos Aires, 2017: photo by Ova Hamer, 19 March 2017

Buenos Aires, 2017 | by Ova Hamer

Buenos Aires, 2017: photo by Ova Hamer, 23 April 2017

Untitled | by vineetvohra1

Untitled: photo by vineet vohra, 13 April 2017

DOG LOVE | by chrjs.0510

  DOG LOVE: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 3 April 2017

DOG LOVE | by chrjs.0510

DOG LOVE: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 3 April 2017

DOG LOVE | by chrjs.0510

DOG LOVE: photo by Chu Việt Hà, 3 April 2017

Untitled | by sasistudios

[Untitled]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 2 May 2017

Untitled | by Md Enamul Kabir

Untitled. Dhaka, Bangladesh.
: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 21 April 2017


Untitled | by Md Enamul Kabir

Untitled. Dhaka, Bangladesh.
: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 21 April 2017


Untitled | by Md Enamul Kabir

Untitled. Dhaka, Bangladesh.
: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 21 April 2017


 Trump supporters, right, taunt one of the organizers of the "100 Days of Failure" protest and march, Saturday, April 29, 2017, in New York. Thousands of people across the U.S. are marching on President Donald Trump's hundredth day in office to demand action on climate change.  (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Trump supporters, right, taunt one of the organizers of the "100 Days of Failure" protest and march, Saturday, April 29, 2017, in New York. Thousands of people across the U.S. are marching on President Donald Trump's hundredth day in office to demand action on climate change.: photo by Mary Altaffer/AP, 29 April 2017

Cruel springtime in Kashmir (a fierce beauty)


There is no flag large enough to hide the shame of killing innocent people .. War till victory .. ! #GoIndiaGoBack #Kashmir: image via Nimra Mahmood @MahmoodNimra, 3 May 2017 

Frantz Fanon: Concerning Violence

National liberation, national renaissance, the restoration of nationhood to the people, commonwealth: whatever may be the headings used or the new formulas introduced, decolonization is always a violent phenomenon. At whatever level we study it -- relationships between individuals, new names for sports clubs, the human admixture at cocktail parties, in the police, on the directing boards of national or private banks -- decolonization is quite simply the replacing of a certain "species" of men by another "species" of men. Without any period of transition, there is a total, complete, and absolute substitution. It is true that we could equally well stress the rise of a new nation, the setting up of a new state, its diplomatic relations, and its economic and political trends. But we have precisely chosen to speak of that kind of tabula rasa which characterizes at the outset all decolonization. Its unusual importance is that it constitutes, from the very first day, the minimum demands of the colonized. To tell the truth, the proof of success lies in a whole social structure being changed from the bottom up. The extraordinary importance of this change is that it is willed, called for, demanded. The need for this change exists in its crude state, impetuous and compelling, in the consciousness and in the lives of the men and women who are colonized. But the possibility of this change is equally experienced in the form of a terrifying future in the consciousness of another "species" of men and women: the colonizers.

Decolonization, which sets out to change the order of the world, is, obviously, a program of complete disorder. But it cannot come as a result of magical practices, nor of a natural shock, nor of a friendly understanding. Decolonization, as we know, is a historical process: that is to say that it cannot be understood, it cannot become intelligible nor clear to itself except in the exact measure that we can discern the movements which give it historical form and content. Decolonization is the meeting of two forces, opposed to each other by their very nature, which in fact owe their originality to that sort of substantification which results from and is nourished by the situation in the colonies. 

Their first encounter was marked by violence and their existence together -- that is to say the exploitation of the native by the settler--was carried on by dint of a great array of bayonets and cannons. The settler and the native are old acquaintances. In fact, the settler is right when he speaks of knowing "them" well. For it is the settler who has brought the native into existence and who perpetuates his existence. The settler owes the fact of his very existence, that is to say, his property, to the colonial system.

Decolonization never takes place unnoticed, for it influences individuals and modifies them fundamentally. It transforms spectators crushed with their inessentiality into privileged actors, with the grandiose glare of history's floodlights upon them. It brings a natural rhythm into existence, introduced by new men, and with it a new language and a new humanity. Decolonization is the veritable creation of new men. But this creation owes nothing of its legitimacy to any supernatural power; the "thing" which has been colonized becomes man during the same process by which it frees itself.

In decolonization, there is therefore the need of a complete calling in question of the colonial situation. If we wish to describe it precisely, we might find it in the wellknown words: "The last shall be first and the first last." Decolonization is the putting into practice of this sentence. That is why, if we try to describe it, all decolonization is successful.

The naked truth of decolonization evokes for us the searing bullets and bloodstained knives which emanate from it. For if the last shall be first, this will only come to pass after a murderous and decisive struggle between the two protagonists. That affirmed intention to place the last at the head of things, and to make them climb at a pace (too quickly, some say) the well-known steps which characterize an organized society, can only triumph if we use all means to turn the scale, including, of course, that of violence.

You do not turn any society, however primitive it may be, upside down with such a program if you have not decided from the very beginning, that is to say from the actual formulation of that program, to overcome all the obstacles that you will come across in so doing. The native who decides to put the program into practice, and to become its moving force, is ready for violence at all times. From birth it is clear to him that this narrow world, strewn with prohibitions, can only be called in question by absolute violence.

Frantz Fanon: Concerning Violence, from The Wretched of the Earth (Damnés de la terre), 1961, translated by Constance Farrington



There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing the innocent people: image via madiha khan @ShaktiMadiha, 3 May 2017


#Kashmir Students Protest. Young Students Protest and Ask @UN to take action against genocide.: image via Syed Ali @Ali_answers, 3 May 2017


Violent clashes erupt between students and security forces in Srinagar. Photo @UmarGanie1
: image via Rediff News @RediffNews, 24 April 2017


Immaculately-written piece by @naseerganai on the images that changed the visual profile of #Kashmir's struggle: image via Rouf Bhat @RoufBhat_, 3 May 2017


O fierce beauty!


THE WORLD WITHOUT US - Indian Border Security Force soldiers deployed in Srinagar School ahead of Parliamentary elections. @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 5 April 2017


Heavy rainfall triggers flood panic in Kashmir on April 06, 2017 @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 6 April 2017


People are reflected on a windowpane of a house during rescue operation by locals in Bemina Srinagar Kashmir on April 07,2017. @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 7 April 2017


Many civilians killed by government forces in Kashmir on April 09, 2017. @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 9 April 2017


Funeral of civilian Umer Farooq killed by Indian forces in Ganderbal Kashmir April 10, 2017, @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 11 April 2017


Youth identified as Sajad Hussain was shot dead 'reportedly' by Indian forces in Batamloo area of Srinagar Kashmir on April 15, 2017 @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 15 April 2017


A woman gives water to protesting student while others throw stones on police during clashes at a College in the heart of Srinagar #Kashmir: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1 17 April 2017


 

Students clash with police at SP College in the heart of Srinagar #kashmir: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 17 April 2017

 

Students clash with police at SP College in the heart of Srinagar #kashmir: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 17 April 2017


 

Students clash with police at SP College in the heart of Srinagar #kashmir: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 17 April 2017
 


A student lies unconscious after Indian police fired teargas shells in the college in Srinagar Kashmir on April 17, 2017. @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 17 April 2017


Indian Police teargassed students in Srinagar, Kashmir on April 17, 2017: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 17 April 2017



Indian Police teargassed students in Srinagar, Kashmir on April 17, 2017
: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 17 April 2017



Indian Police teargassed students in Srinagar, Kashmir on April 17, 2017: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 17 April 2017


Student demonstrations continue in Srinagar Kashmir on April 19, 2017: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 19 April 2017



A student protesting against the recent police raids clashes with Paramilitary troops in Srinagar on April 20, 2017. @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 20 April 2017


A student protesting against the recent police raids clashes with Paramilitary troops in Srinagar on April 20, 2017. @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 20 April 2017

 
#Kashmiri youth throw stones on police amidst bursting teargas shell during clashes in the heart of Srinagar. #Kashmir #kashmirstudentsuprise: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 21 April 2017


  
Girl student kicks a police vehicle during a protest at Lal Chowk in Srinagar. Violent clashes erupt after colleges were re-opened. #kashmir: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 24 April 2017


Many female students resorted to stone throwing during clashes in Srinagar on April 24, 2017. @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 24 April 2017




Kashmiri students in Indian-administered Kashmir take part in mass protests [photo Faisal Khan]: image via Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish, 27 April 2017



Kashmiri students in Indian-administered Kashmir take part in mass protests [photo Faisal Khan]: image via Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish, 27 April 2017



Kashmiri students in Indian-administered Kashmir take part in mass protests [photo Faisal Khan]: image via Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish, 27 April 2017

 

Kashmiri students in Indian-administered Kashmir take part in mass protests [photo Faisal Khan]: image via Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish, 27 April 2017

Female Kashmiri students lead anti-India protests: Students from various female colleges in Indian-administered Kashmir take part in mass protests against Indian soldiers: Faisal Khan, AlJazeera

A 17-year-old was reportedly shot dead by security forces on April 15 in Indian-administered Kashmir while at least 50 college students were wounded by police officers who fired pellets and tear gas.

Video showing Indian soldiers using physical abuse sparked anger leading to violent clashes between police and protesting students outside Government Degree College Pulwama.

Indian police, assisted by paramilitary troops, created a checkpoint outside the college to arrest the boys who they said were involved in stone-throwing incidents.

Police used tear gas to disperse the protesters but the clashes intensified when pellets were fired, leaving many students injured, including Zeeshan Ahmed, who was injured in the head.

More than 15 students were admitted to the district hospital in Pulwama on the same day. Most of them suffered pellet injuries to their eyes. Zeeshan was later transferred to a hospital in Srinagar for specialised treatment, a senior doctor at Pulwama hospital told a local newspaper.

Mass protests then broke out as a result, with students from other colleges, including a girls' college, taking part.

The day-long protests and clashes on April 17 left more than 50 students injured.


Masked #kashmiri youth throw stones on security forces during clashes in Downtown Srinagar. #kashmir #kashmirstudentsuprise #ACruelAprilinKashmir: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 28 April 2017


Student protests reach Government Polytechnic College Gogji Bagh Srinagar #kashmir #kashmirstudentsuprise #ACruelAprilinKashmir: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 29 April 2017



Student protests reach Government Polytechnic College Gogji Bagh Srinagar #kashmir #kashmirstudentsuprise #ACruelAprilinKashmir: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 29 April 2017


Student protests reach Government Polytechnic College Gogji Bagh Srinagar #kashmir #kashmirstudentsuprise #ACruelAprilinKashmir: image via Umar Ganie @UmarGanie1, 29 April 2017  

 
Schoolchildren gather at #BurhanWani Chowk #Muzarrafabad to express solidarity with their struggling brethren across #LOC #IndiaQuitKashmir: image via Tariq Naqash @TariqNaqash, 2 May 2017
 

A boy drags his unconscious injured friend during clashes in Srinagar Kashmir on April 24, 2017 @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookraound81, 24 April 2017


A boy lies unconscious after being hit on his head during clashes in Srinagar Kashmir on April 24, 2017 @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @loookaround81, 24 April 2017


A photojournalist [Dar Yasin] carries an injured student hit by a stone reportedly thrown by a paramilitary trooper in Srinagar on April 20, 2017. @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 20 April 2017


AFP photojournalist @TauseefMUSTAFA holds a picture during a protest in Srinagar on March 16, 2017. He was manhandled by police in Srinagar.: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 16 March 2017
 

Coffin containing the dead body of a rebel Mushtaq Ahmad.He was killed in a brief shootout near police station Bandipora, Kmr.: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 10 March 2017



Anti government clashes in old Srinagar Kashmir on March 17, 2017. @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 17 March 2017


Anti government clashes in old Srinagar Kashmir on March 17, 2017. @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 17 March 2017



Three civilians and a rebel killed by Indian forces in Central Kashmir's Chadoora on March 28, 2017. @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 28 March 2017


Three civilians and a rebel killed by Indian forces in Central Kashmir's Chadoora on March 28, 2017. @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 28 March 2017


Pictures from the funeral of HM rebel Tawseef Wagay in Yaripora Kulgam #Kashmir on March 29, 2017. @lookaround 81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 29 March 2017


Pictures from the funeral of HM rebel Tawseef Wagay in Yaripora Kulgam #Kashmir on March 29, 2017. @lookaround 81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 29 March 2017 
 

Pictures from the funeral of HM rebel Tawseef Wagay in Yaripora Kulgam #Kashmir on March 29, 2017. @lookaround 81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 29 March 2017


Political space has been choked, Kashmir has formally been handed over to Army and Police, India has waged war against Unarmed public #kashmir: image via Muhammad Kamran @KamranFcma, 1 May 2017 


With every killing, with every brutality and with every act of injustice; a new stone pelter, a new rebel and a new Burhan is born. #Kashmir: image via Muhammad Kamran @KamranFcma, 3 May 2017


Clashes near the encounter site in south Kashmir's Padgampora, Pulwama on March 09, 2017. @lookaround 81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 9 March 2017



Protesters run during clashes in Rawalpora area of Srinagar Kashmir on March 31, 2017 @lookaround81: image via Faisal Khan @lookaround81, 31 March 2017


#India A gunsmith works inside a gun factory in Jammu on May 3, 2017, in the Himalayan state of Jammu and Kashmir. Alok Pathani #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 4 May 2017
 

GAZA CITY - Palestinian fishermen load their nets onto a boat before sailing into the waters of the Mediterranean Sea. @MahmudHams #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2017


RDC - Artisanal miners sort and wash rocks to obtain cassiterite at a mining site near Numbi.  Photo @GriffTapper #AFP: image via Frédérique Geffard @fgeffardAFP, 3 May 2017

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TC said...


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