Police have reportedly shot dead at least thirteen people in Indian-administered Kashmir.
Security forces opened fire on stone-throwing Muslim protesters who had defied a curfew in Srinagar and other towns in the mainly Muslim Kashmir valley for a second day. They were opposing a blockade by Hindus of SA Muslim HIV test call condemned ...
Kashmir under direct federal rule ... a key highway that has stranded hundreds of trucks carrying food and other supplies in and out of the region. Protests and counter-protests have been taking place for weeks in the Kashmir valley as well as in the mainly Hindu region around the city of Jammu further south. The demonstrations in the valley are some of the biggest since a separatist rebellion against Indian rule broke out nearly 20 years ago.
(Deutsche Welle)
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