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Indian Kashmir Under Curfew After Deaths

   VOA News 31 July 2010
   Indian   paramilitary  soldiers  patrol  a  street  during  curfew  in
   Srinagar, 31 Jul 2010

Photo: AP

   Indian   paramilitary  soldiers  patrol  a  street  during  curfew  in
   Srinagar, 31 Jul 2010

   Security  forces  in  violence-hit  Indian Kashmir shot and killed two
   protesters   Saturday,   a  day  after  four  others  were  killed  in
   demonstrations against Indian rule.
   Police  say  a  young  man  was killed and several others injured when
   security  forces opened fire on a group of protesters trying to attack
   a  police  camp  in  Naidkhai  village, just north of the main city of
   Srinigar.  Another  person  was  killed  when  police  opened  fire on
   rock-throwing protesters in Baramulla.
   The  latest  violence  brought  to  six the number of people killed in
   pro-independence  protests  in  the  last  two days, with more than 75
   injured.
   Thousands  of  people  across the Kashmir valley staged demonstrations
   Saturday despite a curfew put in place after Friday's violence.
   In northwest Sopore, angry villagers torched a railroad station. While
   in  the  town  of Kreeri, three protesters were injured after security
   forces  repelled  a  group  setting fire to a counterinsurgency police
   camp.
   Indian  security  forces  have  been  accused of killing a total of 23
   Kashmiri  civilians  over the past two months in almost daily protests
   that first erupted after the shooting death of a 17-year-old in June.
   Authorities  have  tried  with little success to quell the violence by
   imposing an on-and-off curfew across the Kashmir valley.
   Muslim separatists in Kashmir have been fighting for independence from
   India  or  a  merger  with  Muslim-majority  Pakistan for more than 20
   years.  Tens of thousands of people have died in the conflict.

   Some information for this report was provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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