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Veteran Journalist Shot Dead in Indian Kashmir

Staff Writer by Staff Writer
06/14/18
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Shujaat Bukhari in Lisbon, Portugal. Photo: Shujaat Bukhari/Twitter

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Unknown gunmen shot a veteran journalist and his police bodyguard dead on Thursday in the main city of violence-plagued Kashmir, police and witnesses said.

Shujaat Bukhari, editor of an English language daily Rising Kashmir, had just entered his vehicle outside his office in the city’s press enclave when assailants fired several shots from close range.

“He (Bukhari) is no more. One of his two police bodyguards also died in the attack,” a top police officer told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. Another police guard and the driver of the vehicle were critically wounded in the attack.

Fellow journalists were on the scene soon afterwards. Bukhari was slumped over in the the back seat, one of the police bodyguards had a gruesome wound to the head.

The killing of @RisingKashmir editor, Shujaat Bukhari is an act of cowardice. It is an attempt to silence the saner voices of Kashmir. He was a courageous and fearless journalist. Extremely shocked & pained at his death. My thoughts and prayers are with his bereaved family.

— Rajnath Singh (@rajnathsingh) June 14, 2018

Bukhari was a protected journalist, guarded by two armed police round the clock, in an area of India where political violence and threats to reporters is commonplace.

Witnesses said Bukhari died on the spot while the assailants fled immediately after the attack.

No rebel group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

Shujaat Bukhari was a voice of reason in Kashmir. Brilliant journalist who pandered to no extremes. He did his job honorably till his last breath & paid the price of being upright. Objectively reported human rights violations at the hands of Indian forces & extremists in Kashmir.

— Marvi Sirmed (@marvisirmed) June 14, 2018

Rebel groups fighting Indian rule of Kashmir as well as government forces have been accused in the past for abducting, attacking and threatening journalists.

Kashmir has been divided between India and Pakistan since the end British colonial rule in 1947. Both claim the former Himalayan kingdom in its entirety.

The attack comes a day before a unilateral halt in military operations against the rebels for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan comes to an end.

Rebel groups fighting for independence of Kashmir or its merger with Pakistan have rejected the brief religious “ceasefire.”

I am devastated. Friend and former colleague (contributor to @TFT_ ) @bukharishujaat has been reportedly killed in #Srinagarhttps://t.co/S5vkx7EUWM
I can’t imagine what his family are going through. What a shame. #journalistsunderattack #India

— Raza Ahmad Rumi (@Razarumi) June 14, 2018

Journalists in Kashmir Are Oppressed by Security Forces and Government

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