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Brutal clashes in Kashmir result in nine deaths
Nine people, including a teenage girl, were killed in Indian Kashmir Sunday as clashes between police and pro-independence protesters ran into a third day. At least 27 people have died in demonstrations against Indian rule over the past six weeks.
By News Wires (text)
REUTERS - At least nine people died in Indian Kashmir on Sunday in clashes between pro-independence protesters and police, officials and witnesses said.
It was the biggest death toll in a single day in the latest wave of protests in Kashmir which have strained relations between India and Pakistan.
Four people, including a girl, died from bullet injuries when police opened fire to quell a violent protest, while five others died in a blast after protesters set fire to a police station stored with explosives.
At least 35 people were injured in the blast in the Pampore area on the outskirts of Kashmir's summer capital Srinagar, where all the deaths happened during Sunday's clashes.
"So far four people have died of bullet wounds and five have died when an ammunition dump went off after an angry mob torched a police camp," a senior police officer, who did not want to be named, told Reuters. Another top police official also confirmed the deaths.
At least 27 people, mostly of them protesters throwing stones, have been killed by security forces over the past six weeks during the biggest demonstrations against Indian rule in two years.
The latest deaths brought thousands of people out into the streets in Pampore and other neighbouring areas shouting: "Go India go!, We want freedom!," as they set fire to government buildings and police vehicles.
Tens of thousands of police and paramilitary soldiers in riot gear patrolled deserted streets across Kashmir and warned residents to stay indoors, witnesses said.
A separatist strike and security lock-down has dragged on for nearly a month-and-a-half in Kashmir, where thousands have been killed since an insurgency broke out in 1989.
Authorities have pleaded for calm.
"Chief Minister Omar Abdullah appealed to all sections of the society to extend their wholehearted cooperation in restoration of peace and normalcy in the valley," a government statement said.
Unrest in Kashmir will complicate efforts to improve relations between New Delhi and Islamabad, as the two countries try to revive peace talks halted after the 2008 attack on Mumbai by Pakistan-based militants.
The nuclear-armed rivals have fought two of their three full-scale wars over Kashmir.
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The Truth
" The UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS 38-40, AND PARTICULARLY THE RESOLUTION OF AUGUST 13, 1948, SAID THAT PAKISTAN HAD ATTACKED KASHMIR, AND ORDERED PAKISTAN TO WITHDRAW ITS FORCES AND ITS TRIBALS’. PAKISTAN HAS YET TO OBEY UN SECURITY COUNCIL AND WITHDRAW FROM LANDS (NOW CALLED POK, PAK-OCCUPIED-KASHMIR) CONTROLLED ILLEGALLY. PAKISTAN OPPOSED THE OPTION OF INDEPENDENT KASHMIR WHEN THE UN RESOLUTIONS WERE BEING FRAMED & GAVE AWAY LARGE PART OF THE POK TO CHINA, WHICH NOW CLAIMS THOSE LANDS AS ITS OWN & THE CHINESE RAPE THEM LIKE XINGJIAN PROVINCE.
In 1952, the Kashmir legislature, elected in elections recognized by observers as free and fair, with 100% of the legislators Muslim, voted to ratify Kashmirs accession with India. US Congress passed a resolution congratulating India for successful elections in 1999.
Ethnic Cleansing of Minorities in Kashmir:
Pakistani government’s direct aiding and abetting of terrorism in Kashmir has resulted in:--
20,000 Hindus killed and 500,000 Hindus have fled Kashmir in terror. The world has been mostly silent about this ethnic cleansing of Hindus from Kashmir.
Madrassas of Pakistan: In last 32 years, unemployed youth educated in the religious madrassas of Pakistan & foreigners’ are trained by Pakistan’s spy agency ISI to infiltrate into Indian Kashmir and ethnically cleanse the Hindus, Sikhs and secular Moslems, destroy schools, hospitals, and basic infrastructures. In last 12 years, over 25,000 lives have been lost and the world has remained silent.
These same “madrassas” are also the breeding ground of terrorists who supported Al Queda and the talibans and were responsible for the 9/11 attacks on US.
In 1947: 40% of Pakistan was Non-Moslem. Today ONLY 3 % are left while the world has looked the other way ?????
kasmir 's death
i think india should think about kashmir, and try to resolve it as soon as possible according to UN resolotion.i think india killing inocent people.He try to be a democartive hero and other hand they killing thousands of people in kasmir, assam,UP,and Gujrat so and so.
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