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Syed Ali Geelani

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India-Pakistan

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India-Pakistan

Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani is no more

2021-09-02

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Senior Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah #Geelani is no more
https://t.co/IaMbsXN9eG
— Greater Kashmir (@GreaterKashmir) September 1, 2021

Senior separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani passed away after a long illness in Srinagar on Wednesday night, reports said.

He was 92.

Reports said that Geelani breathed his last around 10:30 pm at his residence in Hyderpora in uptown Srinagar.

Geelani, who was suffering from multiple ailments, had been keeping unwell for the past many years.

Quoting sources, news agency KNO reported that Geelani developed serious complications on Wednesday afternoon. "He had chest congestion and breathing problems. He passed away at 10:30 PM," the report quoted the sources as having said.

Following Geelani's death, Inspector General of Police, Kashmir
Kashmir

...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
, Vijay Kumar announced that they have imposed restrictions as a "precautionary measure". "Restrictions imposed including suspension of internet services in the Valley," Kumar told ANI news agency.

One India adds:

Authorities imposed a security clampdown in Kashmir late Wednesday after the death of separatist icon Syed Ali Geelani at the age of 92.

Troops put up barbed wire and barricades on roads leading to Geelani's house in the main city of Srinagar after the family announced the death, news agency PTI reported.

Announcements were made from loudspeakers of the main mosque near Geelani's residence asking people to march towards the house.

But police said no one in the Kashmir valley would be allowed to leave their homes. Thousands of security forces were immediately deployed and mobile internet services were cut across the area.

Scores of armoured vehicles and trucks patrolled main roads in Srinagar.

Another One India writes about Mr. Geelani:

The hardliner Islamist leader had resigned from politics and Hurriyat in 2020. His exit comes after he had headed it for 17 years.

Several Kashmiri political leaders have blamed Geelani for the rise in militancy and bloodshed in Kashmir. The Hurriyat leader has called for numerous general strikes or shutdowns, in response to the deaths of unnamed suspected militants, local militants and death of civilians in Kashmir.

Reportedly, Geelani calls Islamist leader and founder of the Jamaat-e-Islami, Abul A'la Maududi as his mentor.

Syed Ali Geelani was born in a town Sopore Baramulla, North Kashmir, on 29 September 1929, was viewed as a key separatist leader in Kashmir.

He was previously a member of Jamaat-e-Islami Kashmir but later on founded Tehreek-e-Hurriyat. He has served as the chairman of All Parties Hurriyat Conference, a conglomerate of pro separatist parties in Jammu and Kashmir. He was an MLA from the Sopore constituency of Jammu and Kashmir in 1972, 1977 and in 1987.

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India-Pakistan

FM Qureshi wishes Geelani speedy recovery

2020-02-18

[DAWN] Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Wormtongue Qureshi
Mehmood <q>Wormtongue</q> Qureshi

...a Pak political shape-changer. He is undistinguished except for his habit of periodically needing to have his lips reattached...
on Sunday prayed for early recovery of Syed Ali Geelani, the chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, from illness and said that his existence was a great source of encouragement for the people of Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
In a video message, the foreign minister prayed for the APHC leader’s good health and long life.

"You are a rock in your resolve. The way you have represented the unarmed people of Kashmir over the last six decades and became a flag bearer of their right to self-determination, is unprecedented in the history," the foreign minister said.

No worldly favours, oppression, torture or detention could deter Mr Geelani’s resolve, Mr Qureshi said.

He said that after India’s unilateral action of Aug 5, the people who had been opposing Mr Geelani’s viewpoint were now admitting their mistake of wasting their time for believing the Indian government’s false commitments on Kashmir.

The foreign minister said that the people of Pakistain and Azad Jammu and Kashmir living anywhere in the world were praying for recuperation of the Hurriyat leader because Mr Geelani had become a symbol of courage, resolve and the ideology of self-determination.

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India-Pakistan

3 JeM militants killed in Tral

2019-03-12

[Daily Excelsior] Three murderous Moslems of Jaish-e-Mohammad
...literally Army of Mohammad, a Pak-based Deobandi terror group founded by Maulana Masood Azhar in 2000, after he split with the Harkat-ul-Mujaheddin. In 2002 the government of Pervez Musharraf banned the group, which changed its name to Khaddam ul-Islam and continued doing what it had been doing before without missing a beat...
(JeM) were killed in a shootout with security forces at Pinglish village of Tral in South Kashmire’ s Pulwama district today.

A joint team of Army’s 42 RR, 180 batallion of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Police launched cordon and search operation in Pinglish village after reports about presence of three murderous Moslems in the village including one local Mudasir Ahmad and two foreigners.

As the search party reached near the house in which murderous Moslems were hiding, they were fired upon by murderous Moslems from inside the house, triggering a shootout. The troops encircled the house trapping them inside.

The intermittent firing continued throughout the day and the house in which the murderous Moslems were hiding was razed to rubble. Three murderous Moslems were killed and two bodies of the murderous Moslems were recovered from the debris of the house along with two AK-47 rifles and one pistol.

The identities of the slain murderous Moslems are yet to be ascertained. The search operation is still going on in the area.

The bodies were charred and beyond the recognition as the house where the murderous Moslems were hiding was set on fire.

The internet services in the Awantipora area was suspended to prevent any violence during the operation.

And parts of Srinagar city observed shutdown today against summoning of Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Omar Farooq to New Delhi by the National Investigating Agency (NIA).

The shutdown in the area was called by the traders of the area in protest against his summoning. Authorities had imposed restrictions in parts of the city to prevent any violence in the area.

The separatists termed the NIA summons to Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Syed Ali Geelani’s son Syed Naseem Geelani and asking them to present themselves before NIA court in New Delhi on Monday, as sheer political vendetta.

They said that NIA raids on the residences of leaders and their relatives followed by summoning them to New Delhi is a fresh attempt to build pressure on the leadership to push them into submission.

They strongly denounced the arrest spree, ban on Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
, slapping of PSA on JKLF chairman Muhammad Yasin Malik
...

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India-Pakistan

Is Hurriyat nod to Norway mediation on Kashmir dispute sign of breakthrough?

2019-01-11

[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] A day after the Prime minister of Norway Erna Solberg said her country was willing to mediate between India and Pakistain on the Kashmire issue, Hurriyat conference in the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmire has welcomed the offer.

"Welcome Prime Minister of Norway Erna Solberg’s statement with regards to the resolution of the Kashmire dispute. We also welcome their offer of mediation to facilitate peace in the region," said Chairman of Hurriyat Conference Mirwaiz Umar Farooq.

On Monday, Prime minister of Norway while speaking at the inauguration of the new "green" Norwegian embassy in New Delhi said that her country was willing to mediate with between India and Pakistain, provided both the countries agree to such mediation.

"Nobody from outside can create peace or make changes. It has to come from inside. If there is a movement between India and Pakistain for greater talks, we and other countries can say that we can help mediating if there is a possibility," she said.

Solberg is on a three-day visit to India. She met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj yesterday to and discussed host of bilateral and global issues.

"Norway has done a lot of work for the cause of peaceful settlements through mediation, we will intervene only if both parties, India and Pakistain, want it," she added.

TALKS IN KASHMIRE
Earlier in November 2018, former Prime Minister of Norway Kjell Magne Bondevik visited Kashmire and met with Hurriyat leaders Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and discussed the situation in Kashmire. He also visited the capital of Pakistain-occupied Kashmire-Muzaffarabad--and met PoK President Sardar Masood Khan.

While clarifying former PM’s visit, Solberg said ’his actions didn’t have Norwegian government’s blessings’.

"He went as a private citizen. He has an institute for peace and security. It’s a private institute in Norway. There isn’t any government plan to start any negotiation. Our policy is clear. If we are going to help someone, they have to ask for it," she said.

Despite the recent hostilities between India and Pakistain, and the border skirmish along the line of Control, the Norwegian PM said she believes that "military" solutions cannot bring "long-lasting" peace.

"Personally, I don’t believe that military solutions solve problem. I believe in peaceful solutions. Participation of women and youth. You can have victory through military activity but you will always have underlying activity. It’s not just in Kashmire, but all places. We see it in Syria too. If there is a solution, it won’t be long-standing."

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India-Pakistan

March to main Srinagar mosque foiled

2016-11-13

[DAWN] Indian authorities disallowed weekly prayers at Srinagar’s historical Jamia Masjid for the 18th consecutive week on Friday by imposing strict restrictions in various parts of the city, reports said.

A call for a march to the grand mosque, located in Nowhatta area in downtown Srinagar, had been given by the resistance leaders, Syed Ali Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Yasin Malik
...

chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
, to mark the Youm-e-Istaqlal.

However,
it was a brave man who first ate an oyster...
the authorities imposed curfew and other restrictions in Srinagar and other towns to stop people from marching to the mosque. They also sealed the mosque, disallowing people to offer Friday prayers there.

At least 10 youths suffered injuries at the hands of security personnel across the India-held Valley.

According to residents of Nowhatta, nobody was allowed to proceed to the historical mosque, which was built by Sultan Sikandar, the father of Zainul Aabideen (popularly known as Budshah), between 1389 and 1420.

Continuous siege of the mosque since July 8 has evoked widespread condemnation from various quarters.

The Mirwaiz, who was sent to his room on Thursday, tried to defy the curbs and march towards the mosque, where he used to deliver sermons, but was whisked away by police.

Talking to news hounds outside his Nigeen residence before his detention, the Mirwaiz said the anti-Moslem regime had once again barred Moslems from offering Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid and other main mosques across held Kashmire.

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India-Pakistan

CRPF Company Cmdr among 28 injured;Kashmir stands still as restrictions continued

2016-08-03

[NEWS.STATETIMES.IN] Normal life remained paralysed in Kashmire for the 24th consecutive day on Monday as curfew continued in some parts while restrictions were in effect in rest of the Valley to maintain law and order.

Curfew remained in force in five cop shoppe areas of the city and Anantnag town. Restrictions on assembly of four or more persons continued in entire Kashmire, a police official said.

"Curfew is in place only in five cop shoppe areas of Srinagar city -- Nowhatta, Khanyar, Rainawari, Safakadal and Maharajgunj," he said.

According to a police handout, the situation throughout Kashmire remained ’under control’ although 15 incidents of stone pelting were reported across the Valley. These incidents were reported from Ganderbal, Kulgam, Anantnag, Shopian, Baramulla, Kupwara and Bandipora.

During law and order situations, three persons, 25 police and security force personnel including a CRPF Coy Commander were maimed. The CRPF Coy Commander suffered serious injury in his face.

As a precautionary measure curfew restrictions were put in place in cop shoppes of North zone Srinagar and Anantnag town.

Normal life remained disrupted for the 24th consecutive day due to the strike call given by separatists against civilian deaths during the protests which erupted after the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani in an encounter with security forces on July 8.

Shops, schools, colleges, business establishments and private offices remained closed while public transport remained off the roads in the Valley which is reeling under the violence that has left 49 persons dead and over 5,600 persons injured.

According to a Srinagar based news agency, scores of doctors and para-medical staff at SKIMS JVC Bemina took out a protest march from the hospital premises and raised pro-freedom slogans.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pound, the little lost dog had finished eating the rat terrier...
Syed Ali Geelani on Monday came out of his residence at Hyderpora and started painting walls with anti-India slogans.

Geelani, who is under continuous house detention, was accompanied by a few of his supporters and some locals of the area.

Notably, the separatists on July 30 issued a new protest calendar asking people, particularly youths, to express their sentiments by writing slogans on roads, Walls, Shop Shutters etc.

The separatist camp has extended the shutdown call in Kashmire till August 5, calling for a march to Hazratbal shrine on Friday.

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India-Pakistan

Nawaz expresses concern after Hurriyat leader Geelani hospitalised

2016-03-11

[DAWN] Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
prayed for the speedy recovery of Kashmire's All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC) leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, who was hospitalised after suffering a minor heart attack in New Delhi on Thursday morning.

In his message the premier said, "Syed Geelani's indefatigable leadership is a beacon of freedom for the people of Jammu and Kashmire. We pray for his quick recovery and good health."

APHC Chairman Syed Ali Geelani was admitted to a hospital in New Delhi after he complained of chest pain, which was later diagnosed as a minor heart attack.

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India-Pakistan

Father and toddler killed in Indian-held Kashmir

2015-09-20

[DAWN] Gunmen have shot and killed a 3-year-old boy and his father in Indian-held Kashmire, police said on Saturday.

Police Inspector-General Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gillani blamed alleged murderous Moslems fighting against Indian rule for the killings late Friday.

Gunmen first threw a grenade, and when that didn't explode they sprayed bullets at Bashir Ahmed, himself a former holy warrior, outside his home as he was carrying his son, said a police officer, speaking on customary condition of anonymity.

The attack took place in northern Sagipora village in Indian-held Kashmire's Sopore region. Ahmed was struck down in his prime, while his son died at a hospital on Saturday.

Sopore has seen a recent spate of similar attacks on civilians and former holy warriors, with rebel groups and government troops blaming each other.

Meanwhile,
...back at the saloon, Butch got the bill for the damage caused by the fist fight, the mirror broken in the shootout, and drinks for everyone......
villagers on Saturday discovered the perforated carcass of a holy warrior in an orchard in Indian Kashmire's Tangmarg area. Troops and anti-India separatists blamed each other for the killing.

On Monday, the bullet-riddled bodies of three local men bearing torture marks were found in the region, leading to days of protests and festivities between Kashmiris and government forces.

Top separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani has condemned the killings and called for an independent probe. He also asked people to observe a shutdown on Sunday to protest the killings.

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India-Pakistan

Indian police detain 2 top Kashmiri separatist leaders

2015-08-23

[ARABNEWS] Police on Saturday detained two top Kashmiri separatist leaders after they landed at New Delhi's airport ahead of talks between Indian and Pak security advisers.

The two flew in from Indian Kashmire for a meeting with Sartaj Aziz
...Adviser to Pak Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on National Security and Foreign Affairs, who believes in good jihadis and bad jihadis as a matter of national policy...
, national security adviser to Pakistain's prime minister, who is scheduled to arrive in the Indian capital on Sunday.

Shabir Ahmed Shah and two colleagues were driven away from the airport by New Delhi police, said Zameer Ahmed, who was part of Shah's entourage.

Hours later, another separatist leader, Bilal Gani Lone, also was picked up by the police after his arrival at the airport and was later put under house arrest in New Delhi, said Shahid-ul-Islam, a front man for the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, the main separatist umbrella group in Indian-controlled Kashmire.

India opposes Pak leaders meeting with Kashmiri separatist leaders in New Delhi.

Shah heads the Democratic Freedom Party in the Indian portion of Kashmire. The group demands the right of self-determination for Kashmiri people.

The detention came as the two sides hit roadblocks over the contentious Kashmire region.

India told Aziz to avoid meeting Kashmiri separatist leaders during his visit to New Delhi for talks that New Delhi wants to focus on terrorism-related issues.

However,
you can observe a lot just by watching...
Pakistain has turned down India's suggestion and said it would also discuss the decades-old Kashmire dispute with the Indian interlocutor as well. The two countries have fought two wars over control of Kashmire since they won independence from British colonialists in 1947.

Pakistain's ambassador in New Delhi has invited the Kashmiri separatist leaders to meet with Aziz before his meeting with his Indian counterpart on Monday.

Several other separatist leaders -- Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Showkat Bakshi, Ghulam Rasool Eidi and Syed Ali Geelani -- also plan to fly to New Delhi to meet with Aziz.

Farooq said Saturday that the separatist leaders always have supported talks between India and Pakistain. "It's very sad that New Delhi is stubborn and hegemonic about our meeting with Sartaj Aziz," he said. "This clearly shows that India is not serious at all about talks."

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Killings Spark Fear in Indian Kashmir

2015-06-16

[AnNahar] Unidentified gunnies rubbed out a former turban in Indian-administered Kashmire on Monday, the fourth apparently assassination in a week in the restive Himalayan region.

Police said the attackers shot Aijaz Ahmed Reshi near his home in Sopore, 45 kilometers (28 miles) northwest of the main city of Srinagar, triggering panic among residents.

"He (Reshi) was struck down in his prime. He was a surrendered terrorist," deputy inspector general of police for the area, Gareeb Dass, told AFP.

The killing led to festivities between demonstrators and government forces elsewhere in the region, with police firing tear gas to disperse protesters.

The assassinations began Tuesday when unknown gunnies shot and killed an activist with the group which is led by Kashmire's top separatist leader Syed Ali Geelani.

That was followed by the liquidation of two more activists, one a sympathizer of the same separatist group and another a former rebel, on Friday and Sunday.

Dass said initial police investigations indicated Hizbul Mujahideen Death Eaters may be behind the attacks.

Hizbul Mujahideen is one of several rebel groups fighting for independence or a merger of the territory with Pakistain.

Tens of thousands of people have died in the revolt that broke out in 1989, most of them civilians.

But the manner of the latest killings has panicked some separatist activists and former rebels.

Geelani last week compared them to assassinations of the mid-1990s, when government-sponsored militias known as Ikhwanis killed a number of rebels and separatist activists.

Kashmire has been divided between India and Pakistain since the two countries won independence from Britannia in 1947. Each claims the disputed territory in its entirety.

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Indian police arrest Kashmiri leader over protest, raising pro-Pakistan slogans

2015-04-18

[DAWN] Indian police said that a top Kashmiri separatist leader has been jugged
You have the right to remain silent...
for leading an anti-India protest march and raising pro-Pakistain slogans earlier in the week.

Police officer K. Rajendra said Masarat Alam was arrested Friday under India's unlawful activities act.

He said police put two other separatist leaders, Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, under house arrest to prevent them from leading a planned march Friday to protest the killing of a bad boy commander's brother in India-held Kashmire.

The Indian army said the man was killed in a shootout along with another bad boy on Monday, while his relatives and angry locals said he was tortured to death.

The chief minister of Indian-held Kashmire (IHK), Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, termed the waving of Pak flag at a Hurriyat rally as 'unacceptable', saying "it was illegal and could not be tolerated", according to reports by Indian media.

Masarat Alam, a likely successor to Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, had organised a rally in the restive summer capital of Indian-held Kashmire. The rally, which was attended by thousands, was held as a show of strength to welcome Geelani on his return from New Delhi.

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Peace on LoC necessary to engage with Pakistan: India

2013-11-10

[Pak Daily Times] India said on Saturday peace and tranquillity along the Line of Control (LoC) was must if India and Pakistain were to engage. Indian External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin told news hounds that Prime Minister

Nawaz Sharif
... served two non-consecutive terms as prime minister, heads the Pakistain Moslem League (Nawaz). Noted for his spectacular corruption, the 1998 Pak nuclear test, border war with India, and for being tossed by General Musharraf...
's adviser on foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz, would be meeting Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on the sidelines of the November 11-12 Asia-Europe Meeting. He said their talks would "take up the outcome of the last meeting -- that for India and Pakistain to engage it is important as a precondition that there should be peace and tranquillity on the Line of Control... And where to go forward based on their assessment on the situation elapsed". Aziz has also sought a meeting with the Indian prime minister during the visit, he added. An Indian news agency quoting sources in the pro-independence Jammu and Kashmire Liberation Front (JKLF) in Srinagar reported that JKLF chief Muhammad Yasin Malik
...

chairman of one of the two factions of Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front. JKLF is a Kashmiri nationalist organization founded in Birmingham, UK in 1977. Branches weren't actually established in Kashmir for another ten years. It has the usual demands for separation of J&K from secular India so it can become an independent Islamic rathole. It seems to have no interest in Pak Kashmir breaking away to join it. In 1994 Malik renounced violence after he was released from jail and from that point he and his organization pursued peaceful means to impose their will on the region...
has received an invitation to meet Aziz when the latter arrives in New Delhi today (Sunday). Sources said Hurriyat leaders Syed Ali Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq have also received an invitation from Pakistain Deputy High Commissioner Mansoor Ahmad Khan to meet Aziz in New Delhi. The Himalayan region of Kashmire has been the spark of two of three wars fought by nuclear-armed India and Pakistain since their independence from Britannia in 1947. A spike in fighting along the LoC in January stalled peace talks between Pakistain and India, which had recently resumed following a three-year hiatus sparked by the 2008 attacks in Mumbai that killed 166 people.

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