Tired of Terror - Part two

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Giving up the gun in Kashmir

In this two-part documentary, Indian journalist Rupa Jha travels to Kashmir to talk to some of the former militants who fought against her country - to ask them and their families why they took up arms in the first place, what led them to put them down, how they view their future and how their past has affected their children.

How difficult is it for them to lead a normal life? Can they be trusted and how difficult is it to give up arms once you have experienced killing? Are they really Tired of Terror?

In the final part of the documentary, Rupa meets with the sons and daughters of former militants as well as men who joined the twenty-year insurgency in more recent years and she tries to find out what their lives are like as they try to return to a normal existence.

She travels to Srinagar, capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, where she meets one ex-militant who has become a mentor for young people, another young ex-militant about to be married and the daughter of a militant accountant.

These young people have had their lives torn apart by conflict: Imran hasn't told his future wife that he used to be a militant and was imprisoned in the '90s, whilst Shagufa recalls her house being repeatedly raided by police in her early childhood.

Neither is confident that peaceful resolution can be achieved in Kashmir.