Quotes by Afzal Malik — In Memory of the Silenced
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"He didn’t hold a gun — he held a mic. Yet, they crushed his skull as if truth was the real threat."
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"Mukesh didn’t die because he lied. He died because he refused to."
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"When the powerful fear a poor man with a camera, that’s when you know who truly holds power — and who truly fears it."
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"The roads he exposed were never built. But the path to his death was paved the day he chose honesty over silence."
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"His heart was removed — not just from his chest, but from a nation that no longer protects its truth-tellers."
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"In a land of slogans and parades, a journalist’s corpse lies in a septic tank — that’s what justice smells like now."
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"They say the pen is mightier than the sword. Maybe that’s why they broke every bone in the hand that held it."