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[EjazR]

DNA: India - Mobs defy curfew in Kashmir, 8 killed

Kashmir remained tense for the fourth consecutive day on Monday as eight more people, including a nine-year-old boy, were killed in clashes with security forces.

Sixty-seven civilians, 39 policemen and 28 CRPF jawans were injured, and dozens of government buildings, police stations and CRPF camps were set on fire by curfew-defying mobs in the Valley.

J&K chief minister Omar Abdullah sought from the Centre more paramilitary forces, especially Rapid Action Force troopers, to curb the street protests, and got a favourable response.

Abdullah briefed a meeting in which all the members of the cabinet committee of security (CCS), including finance minister Pranab Mukherjee, home minister P Chidambaram, defence minister AK Antony and external affairs minister SM Krishna, were present.

“The home minister (P Chidambaram) has assured me that he will look into these requirements,” Abdullah said later. Sources said the Centre has promised Abdullah full support, but urged him to get tough with the agitators.

Meanwhile, anger is growing among the people in the Valley over the deaths.

“A youth was killed when security forces opened fire in Kulgam. He was hit on the thigh, but could not be taken to hospital in time because the protestors did not allow the smooth movement of vehicles,” a police officer said. Security forces opened fire in Pulwama after a mob attacked their camp and a police post. The firing claimed the life of the youth while a man died in a stampede after a mob was chased away at Sangam Anantnag.

Another youth was killed in Kralpora-Kupwara. “The mob chased the security personnel and tried to attack the CRPF camp. There was firing, which resulted in the death of the youth,” said a police spokesperson. “Security forces lathi-charged the protesters and even used teargas to disperse the stone-pelting mob.”

Mobs defied curfew in Kakapora, Pulwama, Budgam, Anantnag, Kulgam and Kupwara. “They attacked the offices of the CMO and the tehsildar, the horticulture office and the tehsil office and set them on fire in Budgam,” the spokesman said. “They damaged the Budgam railway station and set a shed on fire. The miscreants pelted stones on the building of the Budgam police station. Mobs pelted stones in Galwanpora and Hyderpora.”

Violence has spread to those areas which had voted en masse in the 2008 elections. “The situation is grave,” said a senior police officer. “I hope the army is called in, but the decision lies with the political establishment. Our job is to give inputs.”

 

[Desi Sher]

Send the Specialized Wing Of CRPF that is Rapid Action Force to Control the Situation in Sri Nagar

 

[EjazR]

Stop stone-pelting: Geelani?s plea - Hindustan Times

The hard-line leader of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, appealed to people not to resort to stone-pelting and attacks on public property as he called for a Eidgah march on Tuesday. Geelani, however, is on a shaky ground after masked protesters defied the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir-based United Jehad Council chief Syed Salahuddin’s plea to go for a flexible protest calendar.

“The next protest programme will be announced at the Eidgah and a resolution will be passed to press India to resolve the Kashmir issue as per UN resolutions,” Geelani told a local a wire service.

Urging the state not to impose curfew tomorrow, Geelani said at a press conference at the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences hospital on Monday: “If people are able to display discipline at Eidgah, half our struggle is won.”

Moderate Hurriyat leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq also urged the people to organise peaceful protests.

“We should not resort to any method during protests which many Indian agencies might try to take advantage of.”

Geelani (84), who was hospitalised after he complained of chest pain, refused to leave the hospital three days ago and refused to sign a release parole.

He demanded that all political prisoners and protesters be released along with him. The demand was rejected by the authorities.

Geelani will be leading special prayers at the Eidgah — a ground in Srinagar’s downtown area when special prayers like Eid is offered every year and has been separatists’ platform since the 1990s — on Tuesday afternoon.

“I will also reveal details of my meeting with New Delhi’s interlocutors in Srinagar’s sub-jail recently,” he added. A three-member team from New Delhi met Geelani two weeks ago in the jail.

Sikh youths rush to donate blood

Sikh youths donated blood on Monday for those injured in clashes with the security forces in the Kashmir Valley even as a shutdown was observed in Kathua town to protest the chopping off hair of a Sikh youth in Pulawama last week.

Earlier, SOS messages on social-networking websites, asking for food and blood evoked huge response in the Valley. Hospital authorities even had to ask the donors to come back later.

 

[EjazR]

^^^ No one is killing children on basis of religion. There is a pretty good chance chance that the rioting youth who died were shot by a local J&K policeman who was a muslim as well given 70% of J&K police is muslim.


Latest press conference by CM Omar Abdullah on the grave situation in the valley

 

[True_Pakistan_Zindabad]

Self Defense is violent, but justified. This guy speaks in the comfort of air conditioning and Microsoft Word.

 

[ice_man]

if viloence cannot solve anything then why have a WoT in afghanistan? why attack iraq?

let's stop all forms of violence! double standards of the world are appalling!

 

[EjazR]

I care about the people in Kashmir valley and hence I agree with the fact that in this case violence will not solve anything. Anyone who does care about the lives of the people will agree with this. From the elected officials to the sepratists (who actually care for their people).

Those who actually want violence should remember the period post '89 where the people who worst affected where the valley kashmiris thanks to both the militants and government forces.

There is the example from 2004-2008 when one of the most peaceful times in the past two decades in the valley. The main problem is the local J&K police not using non-lethal crowd control techniques as deaths during protests causes more protests. And then protests turn violent,like for example the mob burning a police station in Khrew and then four people died when explosives burst and a 9 year old boy died in a stampede after the CRPF started a lathi charge.

At other places, people who open shops are being stoned, if some one drives out to go to the hospital or school they are being stoned. All these makes it counterproductive for the Kashmir people themselves.

@ice_man
Do you think the Iraq and Afghanistan wars made things better or worse for the US. Those wars actually proved that violence does not solve everything. It should be used in very exceptional circumstances and in a controlled manner under a strict command and control.

 

[ice_man]

@Ejar

so you admit war solves nothing then the world should just stop the WoT and the US and Nato and the allied forces should just walk away from these places! if so then this whole WoT is totally wrong and India should denounce it! should also denounce the israeli atrocities in palestian!

 

[whocares]

Nothing can undo the attrocities which Kashmiris have suffered from generations.
indiscriminate killing of innocent Kashmiris should stop immediately..... it is inhuman to kill childrens on the basis of the religon of their parents.

wtf is this? i condemn the killings too but the idea that its done on the basis of religion is just absurd.

its a result of the incompetence and bad methods .abuses due to government corruption and incompetence happen everywhere (pak, us, china ...)

 

[whocares]

if viloence cannot solve anything then why have a WoT in afghanistan? why attack iraq?

let's stop all forms of violence! double standards of the world are appalling!

double standards between whom? is omar abdullah bush?

 

[ice_man]

india calls the american occupation of afghanistan as justified and as a liberation of the poor from cruel evil taliban! while palestanian supression by india's buddy israel is also taken as correct

while resistence in kashmir from the "evil" indian occupation is deemed as wrong by india!! this is YOUR DOUBLE STANDARD!

 

[EjazR]

@Ejar

so you admit war solves nothing then the world should just stop the WoT and the US and Nato and the allied forces should just walk away from these places! if so then this whole WoT is totally wrong and India should denounce it! should also denounce the israeli atrocities in palestian!

lol@ice_man

I wish I had the power to influence world government but unfortunately I don't.

I would discuss other stuff but its all offtopic so I wont discuss that here.

 

[EjazR]

india calls the american occupation of afghanistan as justified and as a liberation of the poor from cruel evil taliban! while palestanian supression by india's buddy israel is also taken as correct

Please backup your statments or admit them as false statements.

GoI has been a strong supporter of the two state solution. Educate yourself before you show your ignorance on world affairs.

And if you hadn't heard, US and NATO is in Afghanistan thanks to the support of GoP. So Pakistan more than India at the government and army level supports US and NATO.

Infact, Jaswant Singh MP of BJP actually proposed the withdrawal of all western forces and a joint regional force of Afghanistan's neighbours to stablise it to a neutral state.

 

[Tshering22]

^^^ No one is killing children on basis of religion. There is a pretty good chance chance that the rioting youth who died were shot by a local J&K policeman who was a muslim as well given 70% of J&K police is muslim.


Latest press conference by CM Omar Abdullah on the grave situation in the valley
YouTube - Omar Abdullah addresses media

Have separatists ever listened before that they'd listen now? This is no way to treat traitors. Get rid of them. Omar Abdullah of all people should know this living in the valley for all these years.

 

[Tshering22]

Please backup your statments or admit them as false statements.

GoI has been a strong supporter of the two state solution. Educate yourself before you show your ignorance on world affairs.

And if you hadn't heard, US and NATO is in Afghanistan thanks to the support of GoP. So Pakistan more than India at the government and army level supports US and NATO.

Infact, Jaswant Singh MP of BJP actually proposed the withdrawal of all western forces and a joint regional force of Afghanistan's neighbours to stablise it to a neutral state.

The bottomline is we'd get connected to all their miseries somehow or the other and then blamed. So what's the point of taking words seriously,buddy? Let the Army handle the separatist sumbags.