India's Strategy Of Suppression In Kashmir Could Backfire -- Christian Science Monitor
India has imposed a curfew on Kashmir and squashed nonviolent rallies. Now a cycle of retaliation between rock-throwing boys and gun-wielding security forces has set in.
Carefully, in ones and twos, residents of Srinagar emerged from their homes for the first time in a week to pray at small mosques Friday.
Prayers were tense. The city's larger mosques remain blocked by police for the fourth week following the government's imposition of a strict curfew in June, and thousands of Indian security forces were ready to swoop in on any potential protests among pro-independence activists.
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My Comment: Since the independence of India and Pakistan 60 years ago, Kashmir has
India has imposed a curfew on Kashmir and squashed nonviolent rallies. Now a cycle of retaliation between rock-throwing boys and gun-wielding security forces has set in.
Carefully, in ones and twos, residents of Srinagar emerged from their homes for the first time in a week to pray at small mosques Friday.
Prayers were tense. The city's larger mosques remain blocked by police for the fourth week following the government's imposition of a strict curfew in June, and thousands of Indian security forces were ready to swoop in on any potential protests among pro-independence activists.
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My Comment: Since the independence of India and Pakistan 60 years ago, Kashmir has
Prayers were tense. The city's larger mosques remain blocked by police for the fourth week following the government's imposition of a strict curfew in June, and thousands of Indian security forces were ready to swoop in on any potential protests among pro-independence activists.
Read more ....
My Comment: Since the independence of India and Pakistan 60 years ago, Kashmir has always been on a tinderbox of religious and ethnic strife and a focal point of the greater Pakistan-India/Islam-Hindu conflict. My prediction is that nothing will change, and that 60 years from now the same animosities and bitterness will be present.
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My Comment: Since the independence of India and Pakistan 60 years ago, Kashmir has always been on a tinderbox of religious and ethnic strife and a focal point of the greater Pakistan-India/Islam-Hindu conflict. My prediction is that nothing will change, and that 60 years from now the same animosities and bitterness will be present.