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...pattern is being duplicated across the 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...
...Kashmiris' grievance against the Indian government stems from New Delhi's failure to abide by U.N. Security Council resolutions calling for a plebiscite on the future of Jammu and Kashmir state. That issue has always smoldered, but local politicians say it was the widespread vote rigging for candidates favored by Rajiv Gandhi's Congress Party (I) in the 1987 elections that created a generation of committed young radicals ready to die for the secessionist cause. With the encouragement of V.P. Singh, the new Prime Minister, the state government recently attempted a display of good faith by ^ releasing 47 suspected militants...
...ended," said a relieved Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, the Home Minister in India's newly elected government, as he was reunited last week with his daughter Rubia. The 22-year-old medical intern had been kidnaped five days earlier by Muslim extremists agitating for the secession of Jammu and Kashmir state...
...government won the woman's freedom by capitulating to the Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front, which had demanded freedom for five comrades detained under antiterrorism measures. As news of the settlement spread, supporters of the pro-Pakistan J.K.L.F. thronged the streets of Srinagar, the state's summer capital, hoisting Pakistani flags and shouting slogans. When the crowd turned violent, seven people were killed in skirmishes with police, bringing the death toll to 85 over the past 16 months...
Sayeed, India's first Muslim Home Minister, has vowed to bring peace to his country's only predominantly Muslim state. Late last week the government did so by force, slapping a curfew on all major towns in the Kashmir valley...