Global News by Tag: conflict
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, INDIA – Musadiq Mushtaq grew up in a family who played cricket – the craze of the subcontinent. His father, uncles and brother all played cricket. He did, too, until one man came to Srinagar, Kashmir’s summer capital, and opened his eyes to football.
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR – Bandook Khar Mohalla, a locality whose name means gunsmith, is a shadow of its former self. Located in the heart of Srinagar, Kashmir’s summer capital, the community was once famous for its traditional weaponry. In 1925, there were more than 25 manufacturing units here each producing double- and single-barreled guns famous for their exquisite craftsmanship and walnut-wood butts. Now, just two small, family-run factories remain.
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA – The whirring fan in the middle of the container-turned-hospital blows constantly, but does not tame the sweltering Somali heat. The faint noise of the fan competes with wailing children and grandmothers’ prayers.
“Welcome to Mogadishu. We are now in the African Union’s Mission for Somalia’s (AMISOM) field hospital,” says Dr. Lopez Mukuye, a military capital working at the hospital.
QALANDIA CHECKPOINT, BORDER ZONE, PALESTINE -- Beside the separation wall near Qalandia Checkpoint sits a military court, a set of portable buildings, where Palestinian citizens are tried for committing crimes against the state of Israel. In the chaotic and crowded hearing room, an 18-year-old girl sits with her feet shackled as she waits for proceedings to start.
KAMPALA, UGANDA – Four years after the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army, LRA, rebels signed a cessation of hostilities agreement, many of the 1.8 million internally displaced people, IDPs, have begun to consider returning home.
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR – Sameer Ahmad, 14, sits and longingly stares toward the gate. He is still waiting for someone to come and take him home.
Ahmad was put into the Yateem Foundation, one Kashmir’s 17 orphanages, after his father passed away in 1994 and his mother remarried a few years later.
SRINAGAR, KASHMIR, INDIA -- Since chaos erupted in Indian-administered Kashmir in 1989, there have been countless allegations of human rights abuses in the region. Reports of state enforced disappearances are common. And now, a prominent rights group has linked these disappearances to thousands of recently discovered unmarked graves across the region.
Activists say between 8,000 and 10,000 people have gone missing in the region over the last 20 years and now allege that many were picked up by Indian police and state troops, but have never been accounted for.