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| The rationale behind #IndiaCantSee campaign, was to put known faces on the tragedy, says Never Forget Pakistan (posters below) |
July 25, 2016, NewsCrunch
A Pakistani human rights group, Never Forget Pakistan, has published 11 posters of celebrities photoshopped as Kashmir victims of pellets fired by Indian security forces.
The Bollywood-dominated list has Modi, Sonia Gandhi, Virat Kohli, SRK, Aishwarya, Kajol, Saif Ali Khan, Hrithik Roshan, among others. Mark Zuckerberg is the lone non-Indian in the list.
The pellet-ridden faces and bleeding eyes of known faces of celebrities make a dramatic impact, which is further amplified by accompanying captions in the forms of letters written by individual pellet victims. The letters were written by the Never Forget
Zuckerberg has been brought in as Facebook has been reportedly removing posts of Kashmiri victims taking refuge in its policy of maintaining community standards.
The rationale behind the campaign titled, #IndiaCantSee, was to put known faces on the tragedy, says Never Forget
There is a difference between seeing a stranger-victim of pellets to seeing a Virat Kohli or Shahrukh Khan in the same plight.
Never Forget
It adds that it does not suffer from any misplaced sentiment of nationalism and opposes abuses by any government including
The anger on pellets message has gone home in India . Union Home Ministry and J&K High Court have spoken about ending stopping pellets, and CRPF apologised on Monday for firing them.