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Indian Troops Enforce Curfew in Kashmir After Violence

   VOANews 07 July 2010
   Fire  fighters  try  to  douse the fire at a police camp, after it was
   attacked  by  protestors  during  the funeral procession of a Kashmiri
   woman in Srinagar, India, 6 July 2010

Photo: AP

   Fire  fighters  try  to  douse the fire at a police camp, after it was
   attacked  by  protesters  during  the funeral procession of a Kashmiri
   woman in Srinagar, India, 6 July 2010

   Indian  troops  are  patrolling  tense  cities  in  Kashmir to enforce
   curfews to stop increasingly violent street protests.
   Indian  Prime  Minister Manmohan Singh called a meeting of the cabinet
   committee  on  security  affairs  Wednesday  to  discuss  the  violent
   demonstrations against Indian rule.
   Three more people were killed Tuesday when security forces in Srinagar
   opened fire on hundreds of rock-throwing protesters.
   The  deaths  bring the number of civilians killed during several weeks
   of protests to at least 15.
   Kashmir  is  divided  between India and Pakistan. Muslim insurgents in
   Indian  Kashmir  have  been  fighting for independence from India or a
   merger with Muslim-majority Pakistan for more than 20 years.
   The  two  nuclear-armed  neighbors  have  fought  two  wars  over  the
   Himalayan region.

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

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