Monday, July 11, 2016

This violent militant was a folk hero on social media. Now his death has roiled Indian Kashmir.

This violent militant was a folk hero on social media. Now his death has roiled Indian Kashmir.

Burhan Wani was just 22 when he died, but he was already a folk hero to many in Indian-administered Kashmir. The telegenic insurgent — a leader of a group designated a foreign terrorist organization by the State Department — played his social media persona to the hilt, mugging for pictures with automatic weapons and posting videos […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/07/11/this-violent-militant-was-a-folk-hero-on-social-media-now-his-death-has-roiled-indian-kashmir/

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