Tuffail Mattoo | Buried in Our Hearts


On this day, 10 years ago, Indian Army killed Tufail Mattoo (17 years old). 
Who's Tuffail Matto: 


                                      Shaheed Tuffail Matto

Tufail was returning from tuitions. He was a medical student and aspired to become a doctor. He would've been 27 and may have become a Doctor. 



He was hit by a tear gas shell fired from a very close range that damaged his skull.  A tear gas canister fired from close range bashed a hole in his skull, scattered his brains around and killed him instantly. 


                      
                           Tuffail's Father M. Ashraf Matto

His father  was at home when some neighbours rushed to him with the news that shattered his life, forever: his son had been killed. Mattoo senior handed over a Rs 10 note to his son as bus fare when he was going to a tuition centre. 

         This is what was in his pocket. Parents preserve Rs 5 coin found from son’s first as souvenir 


An ordinary Rs 5 coin, which a bus conductor had handed to Tufail Mattoo minutes before he was killed by the Indian Occupational forces, on 11 June 2010, has become a unique a souvenir for his parents. "The coin was retrieved by people from his right hand and given to us on the fateful day. Now we value it more than our own lives,” said Mohammad Ashraf Mattoo, Tufail’s father. The family continues to live in agony given the continued impunity to Tufail’s Killers. His death sparked the 2010 summer uprising  by protests and clashes with police and CRPF across the valley. Several youth lost their lives in this turmoil. 

   

                                 Decade without justice! 



       Father visits his grave on his 10th martyrdom anniversary.


Today It's the 10th year since Ashraf matoo has been showering flowers on the grave of his care taker Tufail  Mattoo 17 years old martyred by Indian Forces."Even if we haven't got justice we have exposed the system it's a decade of denial"


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