From: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Subject: Re: Blaze sparked by gunbattle kills 38 in Kashmir
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 14:56:54 GMT
Reply-To: ksrao@power.ee.ndsu.nodak.edu
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network

In article <1ifjskINN5rc@roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu>, sunder@grusin.crhc.uiuc.edu (Srinivas Sunder) writes:

      Most of the persons killed in this particular case had bullet wounds
instead of burn marks. Kashmir Police officials have said that the security
forces ran amuck and resorted to shooting and the earlier report that the
deaths were due to blaze are false. Both Kashmir police officialdom and New
Delhi have said that an enquiry will be instituted and the 'erring' police will
be severely dealt with (whatever it means).

     I am including the original article to show how the news evolves.


-This is posted w/o permission. But with a reason. Earlier, Bala from AT&T
-had posted an AP report that left me with a different perspective on the
-event described in that article and this one. The AP report called it a 
-massacre, this one calls is a gun-battle. I don't know if that's spin-control
-or merely the truth seeming a little clearer with time. Make of it whatever
-you will. This is NOT intended to flame Bala.
-
-								-srinivas
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-From Clari.news.politics:
-
-Subject: Blaze sparked by gunbattle kills 38 in Kashmir
-
-	NEW DELHI, India (UPI) -- A gun battle between paramilitary police and
-Muslim rebels set ablaze a guerrilla explosives dump Wednesday, burning
-more than 100 homes and stores and killing at least 38 people in the
-troubled northern Indian state of Kashmir, authorities said.
-	The explosives dump, located in a crowded residential neighborhood,
-triggered a series of blasts that quickly burned a large area in the
-town of Sopore, a Kashmir government statement said.
-	Sopore, a stronghold of the Muslim insurgents, is located 425 miles
-north of the Indian capital near the border with Pakistan.
-	Most of the victims were identified as civilians. The gunbattle left
-several guerrillas and one paramilitary soldier dead, said the statement
-released in New Delhi.
-	The gun fight reportedly occurred when paramilitary police patrolling
-the narrow streets of Sopore came under rebel fire.
-	Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao ordered the state administration to
-immediately pay compensation to those who lost relatives and property in
-the incident.
-	No further details were immediately available. Telephone links to the
-Himalayan state still remain disrupted after insurgents late last year
-burned Kashmir's main telecommunications facility.
-	On Wednesday, the Delhi telephone company reported that not a single
-telephone circuit to Srinagar, the Kashmir capital, was working.
-	Kashmir is a disputed territory, with its control divided among
-India, China and Pakistan.
-	India rules the largest section -- the Kashmir Valley -- which has been
-wracked by a Muslim separatist rebellion for the past three years.
-Between 1,000 to 2,000 people have perished in the insurrection.
-	Kashmir is India's only Muslim-majority state, although the country
-has the world's second largest Islamic population after Indonesia.
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-Srinivas Sunder                                         sunder@crhc.uiuc.edu
-
-If my employer shares these views, I'd be most surprised.
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