Emeute à Hyderabad – 10 mars 2011
Des manifestants réclament la création d’un nouvel Etat dans le sud de l’Inde
Reuters
10 mars 2011
La police indienne a fait usage de gaz lacrymogènes ce jeudi à Hyderabad contre des milliers de manifestants qui réclamaient la création d’un nouvel Etat dans le sud de l’Inde.
La capitale de l’Andhra Pradesh, où des multinationales comme Microsoft ou Google ont leur siège indien, a tourné au ralenti jeudi, tandis que des milliers de personnes, dont des avocats et des étudiants, descendaient dans les rues.
La revendication en faveur de la création d’un Etat de Telengana, dans la partie la moins développée de l’Andhra Pradesh, a vu le jour il y a une quarantaine d’années déjà mais elle a gagné en intensité l’an dernier, quand le gouvernement fédéral de Manmohan Singh a déclaré en accepter le principe.
India’s Hyderabad shut down as thousands demand new state
Reuters
HYDERABAD, India | Thu Mar 10, 2011
Businesses were shut in Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh state and where global firms including Microsoft and Google have their main India offices, as thousands of protesters, including lawmakers, students and local government officials, took to the streets.
The four-decade-old demand for Telengana state to be carved out of the economically less developed part of Andhra Pradesh gathered momentum last year after the federal government, led by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Congress party, accepted it in principle.
But the decision triggered a backlash from those opposed to breaking up Andhra Pradesh, a politically important state which sends the highest number of lawmakers to the federal parliament, forcing the ruling Congress-led coalition to backtrack.
Thursday, supporters of creating Telengana took to the streets in a show of force. A few protesters shouting slogans broke through barricades set up around Hyderabad, prompting police to fire tear gas.
« This march is a warning to the government that people of Telengana will settle for nothing less than a separate state. Arrests and bans can’t deter us, » said Lakshma Reddy, a student taking part in the march.
The campaign for Telengana has split Singh’s Congress with 11 of the party’s 33 lawmakers from Andhra Pradesh threatening to resign if he didn’t agree to the new state by the end of the year. Read more…
(Writing by C.J. Kuncheria; Editing by Sanjeev Miglani and Miral Fahmy)
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