The publication – Victims’ Voices – is a compilation of a dozen stories of people affected by various forms of violence. It includes those affected by suicide bombings, improvised explosive devices, aerial bombings or drone strikes inter alia. These case studies are based on reports gathered by the team of CRSS reporters from conflict ridden areas. CRSS began collecting voices affected directly or indirectly by violence some time in early 2012. The purpose of following these cases was to hear them out on their experiences in an environment marked by terrorism and subversion by anti-state religious radical groups. Some of these direct victims of various kinds of violence are maimed, physically incapacitated, or psychologically traumatized because of the intermittent roar of guns, thuds of bomb blasts or deafening blare of suicide bombings, over 350 in Pakistan since March 17, 2002.
The CRSS radio reporting team also went after those who lost near and dear ones, asking them how they endured the tragedy itself. They also approached widows or female orphans to find out how they are coping with the trauma after the loss of their father, brother, husband in acts of terror by a faceless enemy operating in the name of religion. These religious extremists demonstrate scant regard for humanity, relations, and seem totally oblivious to the consequences of their heinous acts on the community.
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