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Kashmiris Protest Army Shooting

   VOA News  February 05, 2011
   Kashmiri villagers carry the body of Manzoor Magray during his funeral
   at Chogal village in Kupwara's Handwara town, February 5, 2011

Photo: Reuters

   Kashmiri villagers carry the body of Manzoor Magray during his funeral
   at Chogal village in Handwara town, Kupwara, February 5, 2011

   Thousands  of  angry  villagers  blocked  roads in Indian-administered
   Kashmir  Saturday  to  protest  the  killing  of  a  young  man by the
   military.
   The  protesters  say  21-year-old  Manzoor  Ahmet Magray died while in
   military  custody  Friday  night  in  Chogal,  90  kilometers north of
   Srinagar, the region's main city.
   However,  an  army  spokesman denied the accusation, saying Magray was
   shot  when  he  walked into an army ambush intended for insurgents and
   ignored orders to stop.
   Anti-India sentiment runs deep in Muslim-majority Kashmir, a Himalayan
   region split between India and Pakistan.

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