Protests erupt amid curfew in Kashmir
A series of clashes have erupted in parts of Indian-administered state of Jammu and Kashmir a day after authorities imposed an indefinite curfew in the disputed region.
On Friday, crowds of Sikh demonstrators defied the curfew and poured onto the streets of Jammu city, the winter capital of Indian Kashmir, to express their resentment over a recent killing of a protester at the hands of Indian forces.
The protesters set tires on fire to block roads and chanted slogans against the heavy-handed tactics from Indian forces.
Witnesses say Indian security forces used teargas to disperse protesters and confront them across a barbed wire barricade in some areas.
Authorities imposed the curfew on Thursday after police shot dead the protester during a massive rally.
Columns of Indian army troops are now marching through the violence-hit areas to restore calm.
The Sikhs have been protesting the tearing away of posters of slain separatist leader Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale by police ahead of the 31st anniversary of his death on Saturday.
Sikh groups had held the Indian government responsible for the suppression of a Sikh nationalist insurgency in northern state of Punjab in the 1980s.
An attack by Indian security forces on Sikh’s holy Golden Temple in June 1984 triggered a deadly wave of insurgency in the troubled state with a Sikh population majority. Bhindranwale, who led movement to create Khalistan in Punjab, was also killed during an operation by Indian force inside the temple on June 6, 1984.
Independent sources say thousands disappeared and were killed in the years after the attack. Sikhs have demanded an international investigation into the wave of violence against their community.
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