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| Kashmir Korpse Kount |
| 2010-09-13 |
| SRINAGAR, India - Indian security forces fired live ammunition and clashed with hundreds of separatist protesters defying an indefinite curfew clamped on Kashmir a day after huge demonstrations against New Delhi’s rule. At least 20 people were injured. Five were wounded when police fired live ammunition and tear gas shells in southern Kashmir to disperse a crowd hurling stones at the home of Kashmir’s education minister, Peerzada Mohammad Syed. “Syed was inside at the time of attack, but escaped unhurt,” a senior police official said. At least 15 people, including eight policemen, were injured in clashes between government forces and stone-throwing protesters in different parts of the Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley, police said. In the north, protesters set fire to a school building and threw petrol bombs at a security patrol vehicle, police said. The Indian government deployed thousands of security forces and slapped an indefinite curfew on Kashmir’s summer capital, Srinagar, on Sunday, a day after Muslims set fire to public buildings in protests against New Delhi’s rule. The curfew extended to other big towns in the Kashmir valley. The government has been trying to respond to the biggest separatist demonstrations in two years in Kashmir triggered by the killing of a 17-year-old student by police in June. Seventy people have died, most from police firing into protesters. In Srinagar, troops equipped with assault rifles patrolled deserted streets in most districts and blocked off lanes with razor wire and iron barricades. But clashes erupted in two residential districts of the town, the heart of an insurgency where tens of thousands of people have been killed in two decades of violence. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #2 BBC reports Reports that copies of the Koran were damaged by anti-Islam protesters in the US on the anniversary of 9/11 over the weekend have further stoked tensions in the Kashmir Valley. Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in Budgam and other towns, chanting anti-America slogans. An angry mob has set fire to a Protestant-run school. |
| Posted by: john frum 2010-09-13 06:30 |
| #1 Jammu and Kashmir state: 64% Muslim, 33% Hindu, and 3% Buddhist, Sikh, Christian. Kashmir is comprised of three distinct regions: Ladakh (58% of the area / 3% of the population / mainly Buddhist), Jammu (26% area / 45% population / mainly Hindu) and Kashmir (16% area / 52% population/ mainly Muslim). The Shia Muslims (13%) support India. The nomadic Muslim tribes (14%) support India. The secular Sunni Muslims support India. The support for secession in Jammu & Kashmir is actually limited to the non-pastoral Sunni Muslim population of the Kashmir Valley (22% of the state's population) |
| Posted by: john frum 2010-09-13 06:29 |