Himanshi Narval, a widow of the Indian Navy, transferred after an appeal of peace

Two weeks ago, the photo of a woman sitting still next to her husband’s body became a viral in Indian social media.

She caught an instant of indescribable grief – the one who came to symbolize April 22 A War -Complete attack on India Kashmir administered by India which killed 26 civilians.

The woman in the photo was Himchashi Narval, whose husband, a A 26-year-old naval officerHe was among the victims. The couple, who was married for less than a week, was on their honeymoon when Vinay Narval was shot dead.

But within days, Da Naval, who was represented as the face of the tragedy, ended up at the center of the hatred campaign.

This began last week when she urged people not to head to Muslims or cashmere, as emotions rose high throughout the country.

The survivors of the attack said the Hindu men were directed and that the victims were shot after the fighters checked their religion. Indian security forces are still looking for the attackers.

After the attack, there were reports of sellers and students from cashmere in other Indian cities harassment And threats, mainly by members of Hindu right groups.

“People who go against Muslims or Kashmiris – we don’t want it. We want peace and only peace,” ” D -ga Narwal said to the reports In a blood donation camp held by the family for what would be her husband’s 27th birthday. “Of course, we want justice. The people who have made him wrong must be punished,” she added.

It was her first public statement, as the video of her saying goodbye to emotional goodbye to her husband’s ark became viral. In it, the affected widow of grief He says With tears: “It is because of him that the world still survives. And we all have to be proud of it in every way.”

Her call for peace caused a quick reaction. Within hours, many of the Internet users who had earned her loss earlier have published abuse of comments.

Some accused her of discouraging her husband’s memory as she refused to blame the ordinary cashmere for the attack. Others made and shared unfounded allegations of her friendships and relationships with Kashmiri men while studying at a university in Delhi. Even more, she claims that she has no right to talk about her husband’s death, as they were only married for a few days.

While online abuse continued, India Women’s National Commission (Ncw) wrote on x that trolling was “extremely reproach and unhappy.”

“Perhaps her reaction may not have fallen well with angry people. But any kind of consent or disagreement should be expressed with decency and within the constitutional limits,” the NCW chairman Vijaya Rahatkar Written at X.

The journalist won Bhandare, who covers gender problems, told the BBC that it was “shocking” how much hatred that Narwal received for a simple attractiveness for peace and tranquility.

She was a malicious troll because “appealing for peace, not to succumb to the story of revenge,” added G -ja Bhandare.

N -Narwal was not the only survivor of the attack to face online abuse.

Arati Renon, the daughter of a man from Kerala, who was killed during the shooting, was also a troll after she told about her test to the media.

Some people said she spoke too calmly and did not show much emotion while telling her father’s death. Others found the blame for her praise two Kashmiri men, who she said she had helped her and took care of her “like a sister.”

“This is the same old story – women are always easy goals,” says Gja Bhandare, adding that women victims of online abuse are also likely to be sexualized and threatened with violence.

“Being an impersonal online gives people the courage to say whatever they want,” she says. “And of course, there are patriarchy in the game, women are separated, no matter who they are.”

Against the backdrop of abuse, D -Narwal has also received support online.

“Your (d -Naval) statement to this loss was an act of grace and unthinkable power,” writer and activist Gurmehar Kaur wrote on xS

“My mother was your age when my dad lost in the valley (Kashmir). I know this type of loss.”

In 2017, Kaur, then a graduate student, became Purpose On a vicious social media campaign after she spoke against the Hindu right student group after a collision at Delhi College. Many of the people who touched her have embarked on a more campaign than her, where she said that her father, a soldier, who died in 1999, was killed by war, not Pakistan.

Journalist Rohini Singh welcomed NCW’s statement in support of G -Ja Narwal, but asked why no action had been taken against social media accounts “apparently abusing and stabbing.”

Members of opposition parties in India also called on the government to act.

Priyanka Chaturvedi, MP from the Shiv Sena (UBT) party marks federal information and broadcast minister Ashvini Weyna in A A PublicationPraying for him to “stand with the widow of an Indian officer” and take action against the troll.

No Indian minister has yet commented on the trolling campaign and no police complaint have been filed.

Meanwhile, G -ja Bhanare says that, like many online hatred campaigns, this can also follow a familiar model: “It will continue its course and then people will move on to their next goal.”

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