Children of Conflict: Survey finds 2,14,000 orphans in Jammu and Kashmir

[xizhimen]

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Children of Conflict: Survey finds 2,14,000 orphans in JK
Date: 25 Jan 2012

Children of Conflict: Survey finds 2,14,000 orphans in JK

Victims Suffering from trauma, Stress related Diseases

SALMAN NIZAMI

JAMMU, JAN 24: Tens of thousands of orphans are suffering from trauma and other stress related diseases including depression, sleeplessness and nausea due to the ongoing conflict in Jammu and Kashmir.

This is evident from a survey conducted by a non-governmental child welfare organization last year. The survey conducted by Save the children has found the presence of at least 2, 14,000 orphans in the state.

Anantnag district of south Kashmir has the maximum number of orphans followed by two districts of north Kashmir-Baramulla and Kupwara. The survey has also depicted the poor financial conditions of the orphans that have forced them to quit studies.

According to the survey, the proportion of children orphaned due to conflict is higher in Anantnag (56%), Baramulla (33 %), and Kupwara (25 %) districts. The survey has also observed that 37 percent of the children were orphaned due to conflict while 55 were orphaned due to natural deaths of parents and 8 percent due to other reasons.

The survey has observed that a large number of children drop out from higher secondary classes, though this is not clearly coming out with respect to primary and secondary segments. While 38 percent orphans are in this age group, only 2 percent of them are undergoing higher secondary education. Only 20 percent of the orphans were attending the same school as the other children of the same age in the same household, implying a less than equal treatment of orphans.

"Around 10 percent of all the orphans are engaged as child labourers of which 3 percent are engaged in paid work and remaining 7 percent in unpaid work. However 7 percent of all households said that taking care of orphans was an economic burden for them and another 4 percent faced other problems because of taking care of orphans such as threats from state and non-state actors," the survey says.
The main reason cited by the children for dropping out of school include poverty or foster parents being unable to afford their education, the other reasons include children being afraid of leaving their homes or school being far away. Stress or trauma in attending school was cited as another reason for dropping out.

"Among the orphans attending schools a large number said that the main distraction in school was that they had worries about families, noise of explosions during conflict and intimidating presence of troops. Around one third of all the orphans had faced emotional stress during the conflict," the survey says.

"While 40 percent felt confused, had a deep sense of lack of control over events, despair and skepticism about the future, 32 percent said that their anxiousness was triggered by sudden loud noises or seeing fatigue/battle uniforms; they had also faced anxiety, sadness and anger after seeing family, friends and neighbours being abused by the militants or the army," it adds

On the impact of the conflict on the young minds, the survey has found that about two fifth of all the orphans (39%) often complained of headache and 29 % had fever occasionally, while 9% had muscle pain and few also felt nausea (4%) and cramps (3%) . The survey found that many orphans experienced various symptoms of trauma - primarily as a result of conflict and the physical and social environment that they were experiencing. Forty Percent of all the orphans showed signs of nervousness 21 percent were very silent, around 20 Percent had depression, 16 Percent reportedly had mood swings, 21 percent were very impatient 12 percent complained of sleeplessness and irritability and 11 percent had withdrawal symptoms.

"On the whole around 5 percent of all the orphans had faced some kinds of physical abuse such as having guns pointed at them, being openly threatened by militants or the army /police being accused of providing support to the fighting sides and being to capture parents or as human shields harassed because of that being illegally detained and interrogated being forced to live outside the house or in hiding (including in forest without any protection being physically assaulted and hurt, being used as bait to capture parents or as human shields)," the survey states.

The overall percentage of the under-18 population of the sample, a crucial indicator for the validity of this study on orphans is 41, which is very close to the corresponding state figure of 42.6.

The socio-demographic pattern of the households surveyed in this study reveals that the average age of the house hold members in the study is young (26.3 years). They predominantly profess Muslim faith (86%) and belong to the general category in terms of caste/ tribe status (71%). Fourty percent of the sample population is engaged in agriculture and non- agricultural work while 23 percent are students.

"The average monthly income of individuals ranges from Rs 1800 (Anantnag) to Rs 5000 (Rajouri). Gainful employment is reportedly low in conflict prone districts," the survey states.

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[xataxsata]

Children of Conflict: Survey finds 2,14,000 orphans in JK
Date: 25 Jan 2012

The pic you have posted is of the Sikh children orphaned because the jehadi terrorists have killed their parents.

Terrorists rot in hell.

[xizhimen]

The pic you have posted is of the Sikh children orphaned because the jehadi terrorists have killed their parents.

Terrorists rot in hell.

not ,they are from Kashmir,dont try to deny the facts.

[xizhimen]

The pic you have posted is of the Sikh children orphaned because the jehadi terrorists have killed their parents.

Terrorists rot in hell.

not ,they are from Kashmir,dont try to deny the facts.

it's one of the Kashmir brutality photos

[xataxsata]

My heart goes for orphans, we must work to make their life easier.

Its a very serious issue, some example:


Number of orphans has increases by 24% on Chinese mainland: report - GlobalTimes

UNICEF - Pakistan - Reaching conflict-affected orphans in Swat Valley

[xizhimen]

ok,so out of China's 1.6 billion people,we have 712,000 orphans.how many orphans in India?

About 20m kids in India orphans: Study

http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-...e1-725905.aspx

About 20 million children, about 4% of their population in India and higher than people living in Delhi, are orphan.

OMG,what a country,a country of orphans.

[xataxsata]

ok,so out of China's 1.6 billion people,we have 712,000 orphans.how many orphans in India?

Don't talk off topic.

Read my reference, I was saying we must work for the betterment of orphan kids and its a serious issue.

[DESERT FIGHTER]

My heart goes for orphans, we must work to make their life easier.

Its a very serious issue, some example:


Number of orphans has increases by 24% on Chinese mainland: report - GlobalTimes

UNICEF - Pakistan - Reaching conflict-affected orphans in Swat Valley

What a bloody shame... cant deny facts... start trolling like a typical indian troll -wuss!

[xizhimen]

Don't talk off topic.

Read my reference, I was saying we must work for the betterment of orphan kids and its a serious issue.

haha ,isnt you that went off the topic and brought China in?

[RazPaK]

What a bloody shame... cant deny facts... start trolling like a typical indian troll -wuss!

Trolling is just a defense mechanism when the truth is too hard to bear.

[fateh71]

Atleast now Pakistan should stop sending in punjabi terrorists, have a heart pakistanis.

However some Kashmiris whose parent(s) were killed by terrorists have come out with great courage and done very well.

I want to work for peace in Kashmir: IAS topper - Hindustan Times

Kashmir ka sitara, Faesal hamara (Star of Kashmir, Faesal the great). The slogan reverberated the air when Shah Faesal (27) --- who topped the Union Public Services Examination (UPSC) to become first from Jammu and Kashmir ever --- landed in Srinagar on Friday afternoon. Rains failed to play spoilsport as enthusiastic crowd in a small cavalcade beat drums and set afire crackers in front of the modest house of Faesal. Even for journalists, reporting the success story, it was a break from routine violence and gore.

"Who are bursting crackers? Who are raising slogans? Who are beating drums? Tell us please," shouted Faesal aunt, who rushed through the festooned path, bare-footed to have a glimpse.

Faesal topping the services examination has broken the myth that Kashmiris are discriminated. "We are caught in self-created confines of perceptions. I have broken those myths and perception. Our participation in the exam is miserable," said Faesal, surrounded by a battery of journalists.

The topper, who hails from a remote village of Sogam in north Kashmir, more than 90 km away from Srinagar, said he will reach out to people in remotest villages of Kashmir to motivate and educate them for administrative services.

"Clearing IAS exams is no more about being hailing from UP and Bihar," he added.

Conscious of being from a conflict zone, Faesal has set his priorities. "I want to contribute in my small way to peace of Kashmir," Faesal told the Hindustan Times.

Faesal was moved by the plight of poor people when he practiced medicine. "I saw patients who had no money to purchase medicines, a large number of them. I want to make difference for them. I though IAS will help be to contribute in a different way…Also want to fight menace of corruption," said Faesal in a blue suit, surrounded by skull-cap and Khan Suit wearing relatives.

He credited his father, killed by militants in 2002, for his success. "Many things what my father taught in my Class 7 helped me in the exams," said Faesal.

Overwhelmed by the responses in Delhi, he said he felt like a Delhiite. "The vice-chancellor of Hamdard University, many IAS officer, ordinary students came to me to say congratulation. It was humbling," said the topper.

Faesal, who had taken up Urdu and Public Administration as subjects for the IAS exams, wants to serve Kashmir "but is ready to be placed anywhere in the country".

The success story already has an imprint. "I too want to prepare for IAS exams," said Amir Bashir (16), a cousin of Faesal.

Governor NN Vohra has invited Faesal and his mother to Raj Bhawan for felicitation.

Even Kashmiris (real ones not punjabi speaking) stuck on the pakistani side are complaining and protesting against this punjabi business of making kashmiri orphans.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14933247

[xizhimen]

Indians always claim that what they killed in Kashmir were Pakistani terrorists,but true is...

Kashmiri was civilian - DNA tests

DNA tests have confirmed that a man killed by security forces in a staged gun battle in Indian-administered Kashmir was a civilian, police say.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Kashmiri was civilian - DNA tests

[fateh71]

Indians always claim that what they killed in Kashmir were Pakistani terrorists,but true is...

Sure mistakes happen in an armed conflict, and India has the mechanism in place to address the issues. This investigation report, BTW is published by Indian Police. Get it, the logic involved? Since that report that claimed your english is better than mine, I've started worrying about all claimed statistics from china.

A chinese will not understand accountability of government, you are slaves of your party. I will not try to educate you, because if I succeed you will be sent to jail. Too sad a spot to be in.

Pakistani terrorists are a huge problem. Even Pakistani Kashmiris protests against it. If you really care about the orphans, use your influence with pakistan military and help put a stop to it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-14933247

[Roybot]

According to the survey, the proportion of children orphaned due to conflict is higher in Anantnag (56%), Baramulla (33 %), and Kupwara (25 %) districts. The survey has also observed that 37 percent of the children were orphaned due to conflict while 55 were orphaned due to natural deaths of parents and 8 percent due to other reasons.

This should be in Kashmir section though.

[xizhimen]

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one must be blind if not see that situation and people's daily living is much better in Tibet than India controlled Kashmir