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| Army help goes in vain | | Yet another woman ends life in Kashmir | |
Early Times report
Jammu, May 13: A young teacher jumped into Jhelum at Sopore today and died on way to hospital. A case has been registered. This is how local news agencies report such incidents. The bereaved receive a shock and the social scientists count the numbers. Nothing moves. Hundreds of Valley women have ended their lives during the past three years. One shivers at the reasons behind most of the suicides. Sometimes the reasons are too trivial to justify an emotional response. Sabreena worked as a teacher in a private school. Today she exchanged heated arguments with her principal. She came out of the school and jumped into Jehlum as hundreds of people watched helplessly. Amid deafening screams they saw her sinking into the bosom of the river. Some people sought help from the 52-RR camp stationed at Amargarh. However, the army help went in vain. Sabreena succumbed on way to hospital.
The private schools in the Valley are known for exploiting women in the name of employment. They get a few thousand bucks for all the efforts they put in. Losing such a job, sociologists believe, should not evoke such a response.
The incident evoked violent demonstrations in the apple town. The school where Sabreena worked was ransacked by the irate mob. A case has been registered. Police are investigating.
But this is not the first time when a woman has ended her life for trivial reasons in Kashmir. On November 1, 2009, a young girl from Ganderbal district ended her life when somebody told her that the pre-paid connections would not work. She consumed some poisonous substance and breathed her last in the hospiltal.
Soon after twenty-two year old Ayesha Bano of Chogal, Handwara consumed poison. She was rushed to hospital where the doctors declared her brought dead. A student of 11th standard ended his following severe scolding by his parents for getting 91% marks in the term examination. He had secured 93% in the previous term. But when the parents realized their mistake, it was too late. `Suicide attempts by women are mostly a cry for help’, says a local social scientist. According to him, among women it was mostly para-suicide as they attempt suicide but rarely complete it. But the statistics of the past few months prove the expert partly wrong. Two women take the extreme step every week on an average basis in the conflict torn Valley, reports suggest.
The conflict definitely has had a toll on mental health in Kashmir but the reasons for recent suicides especially by women reflect disorganization of both the individual and society in Kashmir.
Dr Hameedullah Shah, who has observed a number of patients in the psychiatric hospital, says: "A person commits suicide when he or she reaches the extreme condition of hopelessness. This situation is generally created when a society hankers after materialistic needs."
Shah said the society in Kashmir is today faced with many issues which strengthened the tendency of suicide among the residents of the valley. He sees no direct connection in the rising number of suicides and the on-going turmoil.
Giving data of 2006 and 2007, he said out of the 61 cases of suicide registered by police, 43 were young and middle-aged women while out of 42 cases in 2007, 25 belong to this category.
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