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It has to be noted that these guns, which can cause blindness,
are not used anywhere else to control agitating mobs as, for
instance, when the Jats went on a rampage in Haryana or when
there was anti-Tamil violence in Bengaluru over the Cauvery
waters dispute between Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
If there is a feeling of alienation among the ordinary Kashmiris,
it cannot but have been accentuated by such patent differences
in crowd-control measures.
It is also undeniable that like the people of the northeast, the
Kashmiris are also nowadays being looked at with mistrust for
being “different”.
Quelling the turmoil in the Kashmir Valley should not be the
only objective, therefore, of the government and civil society.
There is also a need to