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September 10, 2019 GMT
In this Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, photo, a Kashmiri baker Sonaullah Sofi displays a photograph of his son after he was allegedly tortured by Indian army soldiers at their bakery in the southern village of Parigam, Indian controlled Kashmir. The main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir presents a mostly deserted and subdued look, woven in a maze of razor wire. But drive out into the rural hinterland and residents in village after village narrate horrors of regular nightly raids by Indian army soldiers. Sofi's family was asleep when army troops raided his home. The soldiers took his two sons into a street, hitting them with gun butts, iron chains and sticks, Sofi said. “Helpless, I heard my sons scream as soldiers started beating them up mercilessly in the middle of the road,” Sofi said. ( AP Photo/Aijaz Hussain)
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In this Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, photo, a Kashmiri baker Sonaullah Sofi displays a photograph of his son after he was allegedly tortured by Indian army soldiers at their bakery in the southern village of Parigam, Indian controlled Kashmir. The main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir presents a mostly deserted and subdued look, woven in a maze of razor wire. But drive out into the rural hinterland and residents in village after village narrate horrors of regular nightly raids by Indian army soldiers. Sofi's family was asleep when army troops raided his home. The soldiers took his two sons into a street, hitting them with gun butts, iron chains and sticks, Sofi said. “Helpless, I heard my sons scream as soldiers started beating them up mercilessly in the middle of the road,” Sofi said. ( AP Photo/Aijaz Hussain)
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In this Monday, Aug. 26, 2019, photo, a Kashmiri baker Sonaullah Sofi displays a photograph of his son after he was allegedly tortured by Indian army soldiers at their bakery in the southern village of Parigam, Indian controlled Kashmir. The main city of Indian-controlled Kashmir presents a mostly deserted and subdued look, woven in a maze of razor wire. But drive out into the rural hinterland and residents in village after village narrate horrors of regular nightly raids by Indian army soldiers. Sofi's family was asleep when army troops raided his home. The soldiers took his two sons into a street, hitting them with gun butts, iron chains and sticks, Sofi said. “Helpless, I heard my sons scream as soldiers started beating them up mercilessly in the middle of the road,” Sofi said. ( AP Photo/Aijaz Hussain)

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