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...Last week, the countries went back to the brink. Shortly before dawn on Tuesday, three men in army uniforms, who were later identified as Pakistani citizens, boarded a Himachal Roadways passenger bus on its way to Jammu, winter capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state. On board for 15 minutes, the men asked to be dropped off near an army barracks. After the bus had stopped, the men ordered the sleepy passengers to the back of the vehicle and opened fire. They tossed a grenade into the bus full of screaming passengers, killing three women, two children...
...uprising, which had seized control of the country's diamond fields and repeatedly tried to oust the government. After Sierra Leone's last election in 1996, the rebels made a point of hacking the hands off civilians, on the grounds they had been used to vote for Kabbah. INDIA Jammu's "Massacre of Innocents" Tension between India and Pakistan over the disputed territory of Kashmir rose when three gunmen killed 34 people in a raid on the Kaluchak army base in Jammu. The dead were mainly women and included 11 children. Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee told Parliament last...
...ease conflict over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Pakistani officials said a woman was killed and 25 others injured when Indian troops attacked Pakistani military posts across the cease-fire line. As shelling continued through the week, India accused Pakistan of infiltrating militants into the Indian-ruled state of Jammu and Kashmir...
...JULY 16 2 A.M. At the talks, the first sign of trouble erupts as Pakistan issues an angry denial of India's claim that Kashmir was not discussed. In Bhatato Ramsoo, a hamlet in the lap of the Peerpanjal hills overlooking the main Srinagar-Jammu highway, gunmen burst into a mud-walled house and, without a word, open fire. Herdsman Mohammed Shaffi, his wife Fatima, daughter Janoo and another relative are shot dead. The killers then enter a neighbor's house and kidnap the owner, Nizamuddin. (He remains missing.) Soon after the first shootings, rebels attack army camps at Waripora...
...fate of the Indian territories of Jammu and Kashmir, a predominantly Muslim region which has been the source of conflict between the two nations for over 50 years, is central to the disarmament question, Khokar said...