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| Quit Kashmir within a week, Hizbul to migrants |
| 2007-07-28 |
| A militant group in Kashmir has told thousands of migrant labourers to leave within a week after two non-Kashmiri labourers were accused of raping and killing a teenage girl. Hizbul Mujahideen has not said what will happen to those labourers who remain behind. "The involvement of non-Kashmiris in criminal activities is increasing and they are also pushing Kashmiri youth to all kinds of social evils," Junaid-ul-Islam, a group spokesman, said in a statement late on Friday. "Quit Kashmir within a week." Another militant group, Jaish-e-Mohammad, echoed the demand. Police arrested at least six people, including at least two non-Kashmiris, this week on charges of raping and killing a 14-year-old girl in north Kashmir. There are no official figures, but several thousand migrant labourers, masons and carpenters work in the state. "They attacked labourers in the past, I am scared and I am leaving now," Suresh Kumar, a labourer from Bihar said before boarding a bus in Srinagar. |
| Posted by:John Frum |