Word: curfew
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...days is the utter alienation of Kashmiri Muslims. Anti-Indian sentiment has spread from the angry young men of the J.K.L.F. and the twelve other rebel organizations to the businessmen and bureaucrats who might be expected to support the status quo. The best recruiter for the rebels is the curfew, which the government has imposed off and on since December. In April the curfew lasted 17 days straight. It was intended to keep 1.5 million Kashmiris in place while heavily armed troops carried out house-to-house, room-to-room, closet-to-closet $ searches. Today, if a visitor happens into...
...roommates. Many couples live out of one room anyway, with the non-resident member of the couple using his or her own room only as a mailing address. Others live together over the summer, only to suffer artificial separation during the year. Short of implementing a John Silber-style curfew on coed visitation (and concommitant encouragement of masturbation), Harvard cannot prevent either phenomenon...
Though authorities managed to bring a tentative calm to Srinagar and nearby areas by enforcing a 24-hour curfew, the conflict threatened to pull India and its longtime enemy Pakistan into an explosive confrontation. The countries have already fought two wars over Kashmir, a predominantly Muslim territory that was divided between them when they gained independence from Britain in 1947. India has long accused Pakistan of arming and training rebels who want Kashmir either to form an independent state or to merge with Pakistan. But New Delhi has produced little convincing evidence of the allegation, which Islamabad denies...
...Vale of Kashmir, India's beautiful high mountain valley that is home to 4.6 million people, the vast majority of them Muslims. Passionate young men who want an independent Kashmir or union with neighboring Pakistan call for a general strike and demonstrations. The police in turn impose a curfew. Protesters start throwing stones, and frightened police respond with rifles. Last week 16 unarmed civilians died that way, while militants killed three policemen...