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Watch: Kargil martyr's daughter has a powerful message to share

3 May, 2016
Watch: Kargil martyr's daughter has a powerful message to shareWatch: Kargil martyr's daughter has a powerful message to share

Gurmehar Kaur, 19, in her video message uses a series of placards to call for an end to state sponsored terrorism, hatred and spying

A strong message by a Kargil martyr's daughter, has broken the Internet ever since it was released two days back. Gurmehar Kaur, 19, in her video message uses a series of placards to call for an end to state sponsored terrorism, hatred and spying.

Kaur who currently lives in Jalandhar, lost her father Captain Mandeep Singh, in the 1999 Kargil War conflict when she was only 2-years-old.

Using 30 cards, she pens a powerful message in English.

"I was 2 years old when he died. I have very few memories of him," she writes as she begins narrating her story.

powerful message

"I have more memories of how it feels to not have a father...I also remember how much I used to hate Pakistan and Pakistanis because they killed my dad," she writes.

She mentions that at the age of six, she tried to stab a woman in a Burkha - "because of some strange reason I thought she was responsible for my father's death."

Kaur shares that it was her mother who eventually made her understand that it was not Pakistan, but the war that killed her beloved father.

powerful message

"Today, I'm a soldier just like my dad...I fight for peace between India and Pakistan."

"We cannot dream of becoming a first world country with third world leadership," Kaur laments. There's "enough state-sponsored terrorism, enough state sponsored spies, enough state sponsored hatred. Enough is enough," she says.

Take a look at her video that is sure to send chills down your spine:

Continue reading to know the one message Kaur hopes to spread through her video.

In a recent interview to a leading daily, Kaur is quoted as saying, "It was during the Pathankot attacks when I realised that someone needs to speak about the things that nobody wants to talk about which is peace between the two countries. I had woken up to the news of Lt Col Niranjan's death. The media footage that I saw on the TV seemed like my past being played back to me. He left behind a three year old daughter and a very young wife. That was the moment I decided that I must do something so that tomorrow there are no children like me."

powerful message

Taking about her mother's role in her life Kaur says, "My mother has never shied away from talking about him and maybe that is why I can think so clearly and without bias about the reason why we had to go through the tragedy of losing him."

She concluded the interview by saying that India and Pakistan can live in the atmosphere of peace but what both countries cannot live in is in the atmosphere of hatred. "If this keeps going on both the nations will end up destroying each other, If there is peace and no situation of war arising all the funds that would've been used for the war would be used for development of the countries," she tells the daily.

Let's hope this young girl's message reaches the opinion leaders and politicians well enough to bring about peace.

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