SRINAGAR: Doctors in Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK) suspect there is something else in the pellets being used by Indian forces which are causing eye insides to turn into a charcoal-like substance.
According to Kashmir Media Service (KMS), doctors at the SMH hospital in Srinagar as well as outside the valley are unaware of what causes pellet-hit eyes to burn and crumple from inside after the injury.
Although samples from the pellet injured eyes were sent to pathologists for examination three months ago, the doctors who had requested the analysis said that the reports were ambiguous and inconclusive.
Over 100 civilians have been killed by Indian armed forces, about 15,000 injured and over 10,000 arrested during the past five months in occupied Kashmir in order to quell the pro-freedom uprising triggered by the killing of Burhan Wani, on July 8. About 1,500 civilians among the injured have been either fully or partially blinded by pellet guns used by the occupation forces on the protesters.
Doctors said that they were not satisfied with the report of the Ophthalmology Pathologists and that further analysis was required. “All they have told us is that the sample is an eye tissue that has burnt,” said Dr S Natarajan, renowned Indian retina surgeon said.