Srinagar, Kashmir from the Indian -Makhan Din stands inside an empty mosque in the Kathua area in the Indian Kathua area to record his last video message on a mobile phone.

The 25 -year -old, wearing a blue and white sports jacket, says he is about to “sacrifice” his life so that no one in the region is subjected to the “torture” that is suspected of “being linked to the militants”, who uses the term authorities for the rebels who fight Against Indian rule.

In the middle of the four -minute video, recorded on February 5, a religion was seen choosing a copy of the Qur’an from a shelf on his back and put it on his head to pledge that he was “unprecedented” in any rebel and he narrated the horrors of carrying him in the police custody the night before. Then he puts the Bible back and comes out of a bundle of pesticides from his pocket, and his lips are constantly praying to God.

“I will have to get this medicine out of coercion and will end my life. I will die until others are saved after me. Oh God, accept my sacrifice. Keep my family happy, always, O God. Save me from the punishment of the grave … Watch everything … I send angels To take my soul from inside the mosque.

In the video: Before his death by SUCIDE, Makhan Din, 25 years old, a tribal man from the Bilawar area in Cathoa, photographed the act, saying that he was dying of suicide so that no one was subjected to “torture” and “humiliation” by the police the way he was exposed. pic.twitter.com/b5zww0gvx

Kashmir. February 6, 2025

After recording his message, Din consumed pesticides and made a final call to his older brother, Lal Din, and informed him that he sent him a video through WhatsApp – and also he killed himself.

In a statement on February 7, the police claimed that DIN had “a number of suspicious contacts in Pakistan and other foreign countries” and denied that he was tortured in reservation or suffered any injury to his body. “He was interrogated, then he was exposed, returned home, and committed suicide,” he said. The Jumu Province Department is fulfilled by the death of Dean and torture allegations.

Meanwhile, the painful video reached tens of thousands of mobile phones and television screens inside and outside the region, which increased tensions, memories of torture and other atrocities in the Himalayan Valley with picturesque views, where the armed rebellion continued for decades.

Since independence from British rule and division to India with a majority of Hindu and Pakistan Muslims in 1947, the entire Kashmir lands were called by the two countries that govern parts of it. The two nuclear powers fought three complete wars on the ground and placed tens of thousands of soldiers across their snow borders.

India accuses Pakistan of training and financing the rebellion on the Indian side, a charge of denying Islamabad, which says it only provides diplomatic support for the movement on international platforms. New Delhi has deployed more than 500,000 soldiers in Kashmir, making it one of the most military areas in the world, as the Indian forces granted special powers and a way to crush the rebellion.

Residents say that New Delhi’s grip on the region has been tightened since 2019, when he canceled the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi right -wing Article 370 From the Indian constitution – which was granted a The degree of autonomy To Kashmir, which is run by Indian-divide the region into two union union regions by the Federal Federation-Pamo and Kashmir, and Ladakh. The government claimed that this step will bring “normal life”, peace and development to the region, because it paid a series of Laws and policies Fear of Kashmiri aims to change the population composition of the Muslim majority area.

The 2019 step was also accompanied by a month Security insurance And prohibited public protests, where thousands of people-students, lawyers, activists, and even politicians supporting India-were thrown in prisons. After more than five years, peace continues to wander around the comfortable streets in the region.

But the torture of the alleged religion by the police followed by his death in suicide. Fear among the residents. It was frightening to see a man who resorted to killing himself, although the seriousness of the punishment. Our religion [Islam] A 22 -year -old man asked not to be identified as he feared revenge to talk to the media.

The young man said that a desperate debt did “make him question the certainty he possesses.”

“I am proud of not being able to imagine the pain he must go through. Cases like him rarely occur here. Most of the short -term news these days. The times have changed in Kashmir.” “It is the beginning of the end, really.”

The army kills the truck driver

A day after the religion was killed, Wasem Ahmad Mir, a 32 -year -old truck driver belonging to the Sopore area in North Kashmir, was killed by the army.

In a statement, the army said that Mir had jumped a security checkpoint on the Srinagar Paramola road. She said that the truck did not stop “despite the repeated warnings,” and she also claimed that the Mir vehicle had chased 23 km (14 miles) before he was shot.

However, the Mir family rejected the army version of the events.

The army says they have chased it for 23 km, however [superintendent of police] He told us that he chased 35 km. We also want to know that when he had to go to Srinagar, why was the car in [opposite] Trend, go to Paramola? “Mir cousin told Indian Express, claiming contradictions in the statements made by the army and the police.

“His clothes were in dirt. We want to know whether they had hit or tortured him before killing.”

“A lot of fear”

The deaths of civilians were due to the alleged abuses by the Indian forces, as more than 500 Kashmiris were held to kill a retired army officer, Manzur Ahmed Wajai, the local resident, on February 3. His wife and his niece were injured in southern Kashmir Colgame.

After the killing, the authorities assembled young people from several areas in southern Kashmir, and most of them accused earlier of participating in anti -government protests or armed rebellion. Pictures of the armed forces depicted vehicles and people at various checkpoints on social media.

“I feel fear after the last campaign because it seems that we no longer live in our Kashmir, or if we do so, it should be in a permanent fear. One of the 21 -year -old from Poloama said,“ The army may come and take you away, then suffer Although he is innocent. “

“There is a lot of fear here,” he said, adding that many young people received calls from army camps, “calling” them. He said he was “terrifying”.

Moreover, there is family pressure; Our families frighten. When someone comes out of the house, there is no certainty if they come back. “If we want to continue to live here, we must be ready to leave the moment they summon us.

Al -Jazeera communicates with many people who have been arrested or interrogated recently, but they fear “consequences” if they speak to the media.

I do not know how Turkish was done. One of them said: “My mind is free at the present time, and if I talk, I will live in one fear and another anxiety: I am arrested because I spoke to you.”

Hubble Iqbal, a lawyer from the Choufian area in southern Kashmir, said that the police can detain someone on reasonable doubts, but this detention cannot exceed 24 hours, as the suspect must be produced before the court and clarifies the lands of his arrest and clarify him. that.

“To detain about 500 people, as reports indicate, the investigation appears to be a state of abuse of the law and the issue of police skipping. We have often seen various protection and rights available to detainees who are violated by the investigation agencies.”

Rami Bonyani, a Mumbai -based writer and activist, said that the police cannot detain such a large amount of people who are suspected only. “There should be some legal aspects that they do not follow. This is a clear violation of human rights.”

“Our blood is not cheap”

The mass arrests and the death of civilians also angered regional politicians, who questioned New Delhi’s demands for “the return of normal life” after 2019.

“What worries me is that the police escaped the same rule of law that are supposed to support and protect these people, and become somewhat separately that people are afraid of them, not the militants.” Ettega Mufti of the Democratic Peoples Party (PDP) said on an island:

Recent incidents were called “very unfortunate”, regional prime minister Omar Abdullah – he was elected in October last year in the region The first assembly elections During a decade-he said that he took the matter with New Delhi and “insisted that both incidents are inquiring in a transparent and transparent way.”

He added: “The regional government will also request its own inquiries.” However, in Kashmir after 2019, R.The prime minister’s powers have been largely reduced as the federal government controls the administration directly.

On the death of civilians, Altaf Thakur, a spokesman for the BJP, told Kashmir that his party wanted to form a high -level committee for investigation and “the perpetrators who are punished”.

“If an innocent person is killed, whether he is Cathois or elsewhere, it is not possible to tolerate him.”

Akar Patel, head of the Amnesty International Rights Group in India, said the Indian government “does not have a human rights interest in the Kashmiris.”

He did not respond or respond negatively to every truck sheet [regional] He said that the police were against the armed forces’ employees since 1989.

Patel said that there should be a review of the “policies in force since 1989”, which witnessed the number of Kashmiri population as “the enemy.”

During a speech in the Indian Parliament in New Delhi last week, the Kashmiri Parliament, Sheikh Abdul Rashid, condemned the death of Mir and Din and demanded an independent investigation.

He said: “Our blood is not cheap.” “We also have the right to live.”