India: Kashmir Unrest Over Land Dispute

By Larry Habegger | Permalink | No Comments | August 21st, 2008 | Trackback

Kashmir’s tourism rebound after decades of conflict has been stymied by the biggest protests in almost twenty years against Delhi rule. A dispute over land for Hindu pilgrims visiting a shrine triggered the unrest that culminated in tens of thousands of demonstrators marching peacefully past the United Nations office in Srinagar Aug. 18. Protest organizers then called for three days of calm so stores could resume business and citizens could restock food supplies before protests were to resume after Friday prayers. The demonstrators are demanding that the Muslim-majority region secede from India, the same demand that separatists have been fighting for since 1989 in a conflict that has killed 43,000.

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