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...JULY 14 9:50 A.M. As the ceremonial welcome for Musharraf ends in New Delhi, gunshots ring out over the mud-house village of Thajivara in southern Kashmir. Nadiya, 11, is walking the main road to school, 15 minutes away. Born in the second year of fighting, the sound is as familiar to her as the bleat of a goat. Like everyone else, she runs for cover in the roadside stalls where her mother usually buys the family's daily bread. She finds herself crouching next to laborer Mohammed Yusuf Gania and two other men, including Gul Mohammed Gania...
...burial, Gul says the authorities are claiming that Nadiya and Yusuf were caught in cross fire between security forces and separatist rebels. But he and other villagers are adamant there was no firefight. They say a policeman protecting the homes of minority Sikhs discharged his rifle by accident and the soldiers, on patrol nearby, thought they were under fire. "Even if there was a militant attack, who did they kill?" asks Nadiya's father, Nazir. His wife, Misra, looks at a picture of her dead daughter and begins to cry again...
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