Click to play videoSrinagar: In Kashmir there have been protests against the police accidentally running over a motorcycle killing two people.
There have been similar agitations in the Valley over the past few weeks. CNN-IBN tries to find out why Kashmir is erupting so violently even to small incidents.
Violence, a familiar sight on the streets of Srinagar – the reason this time an accident between a police vehicle and a motorcycle that killed the father and son riding it. The result: fire, firing and fisticuffs and 15 people including 10 policemen injured.
Protestors say, “We want justice. The driver should be presented before the people. He was on the wrong side and crushed the two on motorbike. Why did police beat us – we were protesting for a just cause.''
While the driver of the police vehicle has now been arrested police blame the violent reaction on elements among the separatist groups stoking small incidents like this to derive political mileage.
Police also say that there are mobile groups who move from area to area and fan trouble.
Kashmir Range IGP S M Sahia says, “There are some sidelined separatist groups who want to secure a foothold in the city, especially in the downtown which is no zone for them and there are some elements who travel from one area to another to fan violence.”
Just a couple of weeks ago similar agitations took place in the Valley. That time, it was protests over the hanging of Parliament attack convict Mohammad Afzal.
Kashmir's leading psychoanalysts say years of conflict have also made the average Valley citizen edgy.
Goverment Medical College senior psychiatrist Dr Arshad Ahmad says, “One, this is a societal reaction to the general attitude in the people that we ought to be loud and vociferous and clear to be heard. Second point is that there is a chronic sense of deprivation from long and people think there has been injustice. We have already had a baseline. Because of deprivations, people tend to agitate even at trivial point.''
Psychologists say because there is a long festering violence in the Valley since last 17 years and very less avenues of expression, people generally come on streets even for a small incident like the road mishap.
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