Exploring the psycho-social costs of the armed conflict in Kashmir, a group of doctors find that the rate of suicide in Kashmir is among the highest in the world.
Peerzada Arshad Hamid of Tehelka reports that doctors at Srinagar's SMHS government hospital for psychiatric diseases have come out with a study that has found the prevalence of suicide in Kashmir to be 15-20 per 1,00,000 persons, a ratio among the highest anywhere in the world.
That the suicide rate has risen dramatically over the past two decades of conflict is indicated by the fact that in 1980, the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANs), Bangalore, had found that the lowest suicide rate among Indian states was in Jammu and Kashmir, at 0.5 per 1,00,000 people.
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