Himanshi Narwal, widow of the Indian fleet officer after the call of peace

Two weeks ago, a photo of a woman sitting motionless near her husband’s body moved to Indian social media.

He captured a minute unspeakable sadness – the one that symbolized April 22 Attack militants in Kashmir with Indian introduction which killed 26 civilians.

The woman in the photo was Narwal’s chimman whose husband, a, 26-year-old naval officerwas among the victims. The couple who was married less than a week were on the honeymoon when Nalwal was shot.

But within a few days, Ms. Narval, who was reflected as the face of the tragedy, was in the center of hatred.

It started last week when it urged people not to target Muslims or Kashmir when emotions rose across the country.

The attack survivors said that the Hindu men were aimed and that the victims had shot dead after the militants had checked their religion. Indian security forces are still looking for attackers.

Since the attack appeared reports of Kashmir and students in other Indian cities Faced with persecution and threats, mainly by the members of the Hindu right -wing groups.

“People go against Muslims or Kashmir – we don’t want it. We want peace and a single peace,” Ms. Nalwal told about reports In the Blood donation camp, which was held by the family, what would be the 27th anniversary of her husband. “Of course, we want justice. People who have offended him must be punished,” she added.

It was her first public statement since the video dedicated to emotional goodness about her husband’s coffin became viral. In it the widow affected by the grief, speak With tears: “It is from his world that he still survived. And we must all be proud of them in all respects.”

Her appeal to the world caused a rapid return reaction. For hours, many Internet users who previously cried with her loss posted abusive comments.

Some accused her of shamefully memory of her husband when she refused to blame the usual cashmere of the attack. Others made and shared unjustified claims against her friendships and relationships with people from Kashmir while studying at Delhi University. However, she claimed that she had no right to talk about her husband’s death because they were married only a few days.

As the continuing abuse on the Internet in India National Commission for Women (NCW) wrote on x that trolling was “extremely condemned and unhappy.”

“Perhaps her reaction may not have dropped with angry people. But any agreement or disagreement should always be expressed with decency and within constitutional borders,” NCW chairman The river river wrote on X.

Namita Bhandare journalist, who covers gender problems, told the BBC that it was “shocking”, how much hatred, Ms. Nalwal received for the simple attractiveness of peace and tranquility.

She was angrily trolls because “she turned to peace, not succumbed to the story of revenge,” added Ms Bjandare.

Ms. Nalwal was not the only survivor in the attack that faced the Internet.

Puts Purau, the daughter of a man from Kerala, who was killed on the shootings, was also troll after she talked her test before the media.

Some people said she talked too calmly and did not show a lot of emotions when her father’s death told. Others considered the guilty to praise two males of Kashmir, who, she said, helped her and took care of her “like a sister”.

“This is the oldest story – women are always simple goals,” says Mrs. Bjandare, adding that women’s abuse can also be sexized and threatened with violence.

“Being faceless on the Internet gives people the courage to say everything they want,” she says. “And, of course, there is a patriarchy, women stand out, no matter who they are.”

Among the abuse, Ms. Nalwal also received support on the Internet.

“Your statement (Ms. Nalwal) before this loss was an act of grace and incredible force,” writer and activist Gurmehar Caur wrote on x.

“My mother was your age when she lost my father in the Valley (Kashmir). I know such a loss.”

In 2017, Caur, then a graduate student, became target About a vicious campaign in social media after it opposed the Hindu right -wing student group after a collision at Delhi’s college. Many of the people who trolls took the question with the previous company, where she said her father, a soldier who died in 1999, was killed by war, not Pakistan.

Journalist Rohini Singh welcomed NCW’s statement, which supports Ms. Nalwal, but asked why no action was taken against the social media “brazenly abusing and slandering.”

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

Priyanka Chaturvedi, MP from the Shiv Sena Party (UBT), indicated the Minister of Federal Information and Broadcasting Ashvini Vaishnau in pillarAsking him “stand with the widow of the Indian officer” and take steps against trolling.

No Indian minister commented on the trolling campaign, and no police complaints were filed.

Meanwhile, Ms Bjandare says that, like many companies on the Internet, it can also follow the usual scheme: “It will work, and then people will go to the next goal.”

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