கர்ப்பிணி பெண் பிரசவ வழியால் துடிக்கிறாள் அவளை கொண்டு செல்ல இந்திய
ராணுவத்தால் வாகனம் மறுக்கப்பட்டு 6 கிலோமீட்டர் வலியுடன் நடந்தே சென்று
மருத்துவமணையில் குழந்தையை பெற்றால்...அந்த கர்ப்பிணி பெண் ராணுவத்திடம் கெஞ்சுகிறாள், அவர்கள் சற்றும் தலை சாய்க்க வில்லை. அந்த தாய் வலியுடன் அழுது கொண்டு 6 கிலோமீட்டர் செல்வதை மொத்த ராணுவமும் வேடிக்கை பார்த்துள்ளது..
"இரக்க குணத்தின் கடைசி பக்கம் கூட இல்லாத இனம் "
இந்த செய்தி காலை அனைத்து செய்திகளிலும் வந்தது இப்போது அதை நீக்கி விட்டனர்..
ராணுவத்தின் இரக்க குணத்தை பத்தி புரிந்து கொள்ளுங்கள்
ரோகின்யா அகதி தாய் கூறுகிறாள் என்னுடைய மகனை சிலர் உயிருடன் எரித்து கொண்டு இருக்கும்போது மறுபுறத்தில் என்னை பலபேர் கற்பழித்து கொண்டு இருந்தனர்..
எவனுக்கும் இறைவன் பற்றிய பயம் இல்லை தனக்கு மரணம் வாராது என்று எண்ணுகிறான்..
பேசும்போது பார்த்து பேசுங்கள்...
என்னால் எழுத முடியவில்லை....
இவர்கள் அனைவருக்கும் இறைவன் இப்படி கூறுகிறான்...
"மரணிக்கவே மாட்டோம் என்று மனிதன் எண்ணுகிறானா..? அவ்வாறு இல்லை, அவன் விரல் ரேகை முதற்கொண்டு மாறாமல் அப்படியே இளமையாக படைத்து அவன் செய்த பாவங்களுக்கு உரிய தண்டனையை தோலை புதுபித்து புதுபித்து வழங்கி கொண்டே இருப்போம். அதில் அவன் மரணிக்கவே மாட்டான் "
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ஏன் தோல் குறிப்பிடப்படுகிறது என்றால், தோல்தான் வலிகளை உணரக்கூடியது என்று அறிவியல் இன்று சொல்கிறது..
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In a Ravaged Kashmir, One Woman's Fight to Give Birth
"I tried to explain to them [security personnel] that we had an emergency, but they had clear orders to not allow any vehicles."
Insha and her unnamed baby girl. Photo: Zubair Sofi
Srinagar:
As dawn broke over Srinagar, a sense of gloom hung in the air. An
ominous silence, evocative of the multiple calls to prayers from the
city’s various mosques, was palpable after the menace that the night
before had meted out to the people.
On Thursday, August 8, widespread protests, which turned into violent clashes between the military and protestors, erupted in Kashmir. Witnesses reported that the police opened fire on numerous protestors that included unarmed men, women and children – some as young as six years old. Many were wounded, whilst some were sprayed with buckshot in their eyes, resulting in blindness.
A heavily pregnant 26-year-old woman, Insha Ashraf awoke to this momentary silence. Her water had just broken, and she was going into labour. Amidst one of the most repressive moments in Kashmir’s history, Insha, who was at her mother’s home in Bemina on the outskirts of Srinagar, experienced panic before the delivery of her firstborn. She wondered if she would be able to reach the hospital in time for the safe delivery of her child.
Her mother, Mubeena, rushed Insha and her sister Nisha to their neighbour’s home at around 5:30 am. The neighbour, an autorickshaw driver, agreed to take the distraught expectant mother and her family to Lal Ded Hospital, about 7 km away.
A few meters ahead, they were stopped at a security checkpoint and not allowed to proceed further.
Also read | Stuck in Hospital After Losing a Child, Waiting 3 Days for 1 Call: Life in Kashmir Today
“I tried to explain to them [the security personnel] that we had an emergency, but they had clear orders to not allow any vehicles,” said Insha, adding that she was asked to walk to the hospital through a different route.
“As we started walking, we encountered checkpoints every 500 meters and we were told to keep taking different detours every time,” she said. The security forces ignored all their pleas.
Around 11 am, while she was still 500 meters away from Lal Ded
hospital, Insha started experiencing severe contractions. She had
already travelled over 6 km on foot, unaware of what state her child
would be delivered in. When it became evident that Insha would be
delivering her child on the roadside, her mother and sister took her to
Khanams, a private hospital nearby.
Within 15 minutes of reaching the hospital, Insha delivered a healthy baby girl. The baby was taken out of the delivery room naked, since there were no clothes available in the hospital due to the lockdown in the Valley.
“I took my granddaughter into my arms and wrapped my scarf around her,” said Mubeena. In the meantime, Insha’s sister Nisha went out of the hospital premises and managed to get some clothes for the baby after over an hour.
Insha’s husband, Irfan Ahmad Sheikh, an autorickshaw driver, is yet to be informed about the birth of his child because all means of communication – telephones, cellular phones, internet, leased lines, broadband – are banned and no civilian movement is being allowed in Kashmir.
Also read | ‘I Am More Afraid Than I Have Ever Been’: A Personal Account From Kashmir
His daughter is yet to be named – a birthright that is given to the father, and his relatives.
Insha, her mother and Nisha faced a critical moment that day. But did they really need to endure such gruelling circumstances?
Restrictions on movement
Things are far worse at Lal Ded Hospital where mothers, who have already delivered their children and have been discharged from the hospital, are not able to leave. Hospital authorities claim they weren’t given any proper directions on how to function under such circumstances.
The courtyard and corridors are filled with relatives of patients who have no place to sleep or eat because they are confined to the hospital premises due to the curfew outside.
Thirty-eight-year-old Rashid Ali, a resident of Uri, a town north of
Kashmir in Baramulla district, has been at the hospital for a few days
now. His wife, Jana Begum, delivered a boy on August 2, and they were
scheduled to leave the hospital on August 5.
Jana Begum – and other women like her – are being kept in a hall on the top floor of the hospital, while their companions occupy the courtyard and corridors. Many of them have run out of money to buy food and are on the verge of begging for basic necessities.
“I ran out of money on August 8 and have nowhere to go to seek help. All the phone lines are dead and I cannot call any family member for money,” said Rashid, a day labourer. “I have meagre savings, and my funds for the journey back home have been utilised to buy food here. I am now begging to collect some money to eat,” he said.
Dr Samreena, a resident physician at the hospital, said that there were many doctors who were working day and night and weren’t being allowed to go home. She also added that other staff members were following the same orders. “Doctors and staff members, who live far away and were off-duty on the day curfew was imposed, are unable to travel and come for work,” she said.
“Ambulances are being used to transport doctors and staff members who live nearby. The hospital has also made arrangements to accommodate members who live far away, in a couple of rooms within the hospital,” said Dr Samreena.
Also read | ‘Even My Call to Almighty Could be Interpreted as Subversion’: Kashmiri Scholar
Relatives and companions of the patients have nowhere to eat apart from the hospital canteen, which they believe does not serve good quality food. An employee at the canteen, Aqib, said that while they usually served about one hundred rice plates in a day, they now distribute about 800-1,000.
Since the intervening night of August 4 and 5, the Valley has been under a tight curfew as per the Central government’s directions following the proposal to revoke Jammu and Kashmir’s special status.
Several political analysts concurred that the manner in which the Indian government scrapped these two Articles was undemocratic and unconstitutional. Soon after the news of the revoking of the special status was made public, protests were carried out and the Centre’s decision attracted significant criticism.
In the meantime, in a hospital in Srinagar, wrapped up in new clothes, a new-born girl greeted a world entirely different from that of her mother.
On Thursday, August 8, widespread protests, which turned into violent clashes between the military and protestors, erupted in Kashmir. Witnesses reported that the police opened fire on numerous protestors that included unarmed men, women and children – some as young as six years old. Many were wounded, whilst some were sprayed with buckshot in their eyes, resulting in blindness.
A heavily pregnant 26-year-old woman, Insha Ashraf awoke to this momentary silence. Her water had just broken, and she was going into labour. Amidst one of the most repressive moments in Kashmir’s history, Insha, who was at her mother’s home in Bemina on the outskirts of Srinagar, experienced panic before the delivery of her firstborn. She wondered if she would be able to reach the hospital in time for the safe delivery of her child.
Her mother, Mubeena, rushed Insha and her sister Nisha to their neighbour’s home at around 5:30 am. The neighbour, an autorickshaw driver, agreed to take the distraught expectant mother and her family to Lal Ded Hospital, about 7 km away.
A few meters ahead, they were stopped at a security checkpoint and not allowed to proceed further.
Also read | Stuck in Hospital After Losing a Child, Waiting 3 Days for 1 Call: Life in Kashmir Today
“I tried to explain to them [the security personnel] that we had an emergency, but they had clear orders to not allow any vehicles,” said Insha, adding that she was asked to walk to the hospital through a different route.
“As we started walking, we encountered checkpoints every 500 meters and we were told to keep taking different detours every time,” she said. The security forces ignored all their pleas.
A pregnant woman on the streets of Srinagar. Photo: Zubair Sofi
Within 15 minutes of reaching the hospital, Insha delivered a healthy baby girl. The baby was taken out of the delivery room naked, since there were no clothes available in the hospital due to the lockdown in the Valley.
“I took my granddaughter into my arms and wrapped my scarf around her,” said Mubeena. In the meantime, Insha’s sister Nisha went out of the hospital premises and managed to get some clothes for the baby after over an hour.
Insha’s husband, Irfan Ahmad Sheikh, an autorickshaw driver, is yet to be informed about the birth of his child because all means of communication – telephones, cellular phones, internet, leased lines, broadband – are banned and no civilian movement is being allowed in Kashmir.
Also read | ‘I Am More Afraid Than I Have Ever Been’: A Personal Account From Kashmir
His daughter is yet to be named – a birthright that is given to the father, and his relatives.
Insha, her mother and Nisha faced a critical moment that day. But did they really need to endure such gruelling circumstances?
Restrictions on movement
Things are far worse at Lal Ded Hospital where mothers, who have already delivered their children and have been discharged from the hospital, are not able to leave. Hospital authorities claim they weren’t given any proper directions on how to function under such circumstances.
The courtyard and corridors are filled with relatives of patients who have no place to sleep or eat because they are confined to the hospital premises due to the curfew outside.
Companions of the patients sleeping in the corridor of Lal Ded Hospital, Srinagar. Photo: Zubair Sofi
Jana Begum – and other women like her – are being kept in a hall on the top floor of the hospital, while their companions occupy the courtyard and corridors. Many of them have run out of money to buy food and are on the verge of begging for basic necessities.
“I ran out of money on August 8 and have nowhere to go to seek help. All the phone lines are dead and I cannot call any family member for money,” said Rashid, a day labourer. “I have meagre savings, and my funds for the journey back home have been utilised to buy food here. I am now begging to collect some money to eat,” he said.
Dr Samreena, a resident physician at the hospital, said that there were many doctors who were working day and night and weren’t being allowed to go home. She also added that other staff members were following the same orders. “Doctors and staff members, who live far away and were off-duty on the day curfew was imposed, are unable to travel and come for work,” she said.
“Ambulances are being used to transport doctors and staff members who live nearby. The hospital has also made arrangements to accommodate members who live far away, in a couple of rooms within the hospital,” said Dr Samreena.
Also read | ‘Even My Call to Almighty Could be Interpreted as Subversion’: Kashmiri Scholar
Relatives and companions of the patients have nowhere to eat apart from the hospital canteen, which they believe does not serve good quality food. An employee at the canteen, Aqib, said that while they usually served about one hundred rice plates in a day, they now distribute about 800-1,000.
Since the intervening night of August 4 and 5, the Valley has been under a tight curfew as per the Central government’s directions following the proposal to revoke Jammu and Kashmir’s special status.
Several political analysts concurred that the manner in which the Indian government scrapped these two Articles was undemocratic and unconstitutional. Soon after the news of the revoking of the special status was made public, protests were carried out and the Centre’s decision attracted significant criticism.
In the meantime, in a hospital in Srinagar, wrapped up in new clothes, a new-born girl greeted a world entirely different from that of her mother.
Zubair Sofi is
a Jammu and Kashmir-based journalist whose work has been published in
international, national as well as local news organisations. He tweets
@zubairsofii.
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