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Kill your dog else we'll kill you: Kashmir militants

Kill your dog else we'll kill you: Kashmir militants

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Publication: The New Indian Express
Date: February 10, 2003

After having failed to enforce compulsory burqa in the bordering Rajouri district, militants have now turned their guns to hapless canines. Almost 50 dogs have been killed either by their owners or militants in various villages in the past fortnight, following militants' threat to kill people whose dog barks at night.

However, unlike the burqa diktat, this time the militants have not issued any threatening posters. They verbally warned the villagers last week and soon started killing the canines in some places.

Two days ago, militants killed two dogs at Lah. On Sunday, an animal husbandry employee himself poisoned his two pet dogs to escape militants wrath at Tota Morah.

According to sources Tota Morah, Lah, Behrot, Khablan, Rajdhani and Dudasan Bala villages in Thanamandi have been worst affected. Almost 15 dogs have been killed in Lah, besides over half-a-dozen each at Dudasan Bala, Rajdhani and Behrot during the past fortnight.

Sources said the diktat comes in the wake of the recent killing of seven militants by security forces when dogs alerted them. The militants were trying to infiltrate from across the border at Tumberkhoo in Kanachak area. In Samba tehsil near Jammu, two mercenaries were killed in a fierce encounter when dogs alerted the village defence committee members about their presence in Chilla Danga area.

Senior police officers said that the militants' latest diktat is bound to cause resentment since most of the villagers are shepherds and dogs are part and parcel of their lives. "They not only help them in security, but also protect their cattle herds from wild animals in the forests," they said.

Officials referred to a 1996 incident, where the area saw widespread protests when an Army major killed a pet dog. The owner of the dog approached the Defence Ministry through then minister Maneka Gandhi. And the matter finally settled with the transfer of the Army official.
 


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