Srinagar: With electroshock weapons approved for crowd control in Kashmir, Doctors Association Kashmir (DAK) today said that these weapons have the potential to kill.
Terming these weapons lethal, President DAK Dr Nisar-ul-Hassan in a statement said that these devices pose a significant and fatal risk to human life.
Electroshock weapons are incapacitant devices that discharge high voltage electrical current.
Hundreds of deaths have been reported in reliable studies due to the use of these weapons.
A study published in “American Heart Association Journal” has linked these devices to cardiac arrests and deaths.
Amnesty international has documented over 500 deaths that occurred after the use of these weapons.
Another Canadian study revealed that these devices trigger ventricular fibrillations and the threshold for these deadly arrhythmias decrease with repeated shocks.
They are particularly dangerous to those with underlying heart condition and implanted pacemakers.
Studies have shown that these devices can cause eye injuries, seizures, collapsed lungs and head injuries when the victims hit the ground.
These weapons have been banned in many countries.
United Nations has also raised extensive concerns about the use of electro-shock devices.
Even the manufacturing companies of these devices no longer claim them non-lethal.
Long Range Acoustic Device (LARD) has also been approved for use against protestors in Kashmir that can cause permanent hearing loss.
Originally developed as military weapons, these sonic devices can produce an intensely loud sound of greater than 140-decibels.
Sounds greater than 85 decibels can leave a person permanently deaf. (CNS)
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