In conflicts in Lebanon, Israel, Gaza and Turkey, dead bodies have been used as leverage for years. Now, in Kashmir, India is instituting a similar strategy, halting the hand-over of militants’ bodies to their families and burying them far away. Is this an historic counter-insurgency success, or collective, if not inhumane, punishment?
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Mourning over empty graves in Indian-controlled Kashmir
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