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Militants attack Hindu pilgrims in Indian Kashmir
2007-07-18
At least 16 people were wounded on Tuesday in a grenade attack by militants against Hindu devotees taking part in an annual pilgrimage in Indian held Kashmir, police said. Five of the injured were in a serious condition and have been taken to the main hospital in Srinagar, a police spokesman said. “The area has been sealed off and a search launched to arrest the militants,” the police official said, adding that the casualties included six pilgrims, three police and several others.

Meanwhile, Indian soldiers killed four suspected Islamic militants trying to infiltrate into the Indian held Kashmir from across Pakistan on the same day the attack on the pilgrims was carried out, the army said. An army patrol spotted the four in the Rampur sector, near the Line of Control (LoC), said army spokesman Lieutenant Colonel AK Mathur. The soldiers challenged the militants who opened fire, setting off a battle that killed the suspected guerrillas, Mathur said, adding that four
Posted by:Fred

#5  Just like Kosovo and just like those three southern provinces in Thailand. The pattern is pretty clear.
Posted by: treo   2007-07-18 10:40  

#4  Welcome to Kashmir, the future "Palestine" of southern Asia!
Posted by: BA   2007-07-18 09:59  

#3  Today there is a campaign to force the Indian Army to leave the private property, orchards and farmland where it stations troops. It is being sold as a 'normalization' measure, to have the military less visible to the Muslim community.

What is not mentioned is that the private property is largely owned by the ethnically cleansed Hindu pandit community. The true motive of the J+K government (which recently instated Sharia law in the state) is to finish the ethnic cleansing. With the troops gone, the houses, lands and businesses of the absent Hindu Pandits will be fair game for their Muslim neighbors.
Posted by: John Frum   2007-07-18 07:02  

#2  The Hindu Pandit community has been ethnically cleansed from Kashmir by the Islamist 'militants'.
Between 1989 and 1991, over 400 000 Hindus were driven out. They live today as refugees in other parts of India, many in squalid camps.
Posted by: John Frum   2007-07-18 06:55  

#1  Hindus have been in Kashmir for untold thousands of years. The new-comers should respect the pioneers.
Posted by: McZoid   2007-07-18 01:45  

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