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| Rebels Kill 2 Troopers in Indian Kashmir |
| 2014-08-17 |
| [AnNahar] Suspected rebels rubbed out two paramilitary troopers in Indian Kashmire in the third holy warrior assault on government forces in a week in the restive Himalayan region, police said. Gunmen attacked a vehicle carrying Border Security Force (BSF) troops near a military airport just south of Srinagar, the main city in Moslem-majority Indian Kashmire. "Two BSF personnel got martyred (killed) and two were maimed in the attack," police inspector general Abdul Gani Mir told Agence La Belle France Presse, adding the gunnies fled immediately afterwards. The assault marked the third attack by suspected forces of Evil on government forces in a week. The first occurred last Monday, on the eve of a visit by India's new Hindu nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi to Ladakh in the north of the disputed territory which is also claimed by Pakistain. Gunmen raked a paramilitary vehicle with fire, seriously injuring seven paramilitary border guards. On Wednesday, the day after Modi's visit during which he addressed Indian troops stationed in the heavily militarized region, gunnies killed two Indian coppers and a civilian. Since 1989, fighting between Indian forces and about a dozen rebel groups seeking independence or a merger of the territory with Pakistain has left tens of thousands, mostly civilians, dead. Modi, in his speech in Ladakh accused Pakistain of "waging a proxy war of terrorism" by dispatching forces of Evil to fight against India. Pakistain regularly denies such allegations. Kashmire is divided between Indian and Pakistain by a de-facto border known as the Line of Control or LoC and controlled separately by the nuclear-armed South Asian rivals. The nations have fought three wars, two over Kashmire, since 1947 when the subcontinent was partitioned at independence from Britannia. The insurgency and long-running rivalry with Pakistain has made Indian Kashmire one of the world's tensest regions. There are an estimated half a million troops deployed in Indian Kashmire. Violence has fallen in the region since 2004 when the two countries began a grinding of the peace processor, but there are sporadic rebel attacks on government forces while the region's residents often accuse government forces of human rights When they're defined by the state or an NGO they don't mean much... abuses. |
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