Kashmir : émeute à Maisuma (Srinagar) – 28 avril 2011

In Malik’s bastion, stone pelting resurfaces this summer

Hindustan Times

Srinagar, April 28, 2011

After months of calm, stone-pelting resurfaced in Srinagar on Thursday when activists of separatist group Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) clashed with the J-K police personnel after a youth was picked up from Maisuma locality. The trouble started after a youth was arrest on Wednesday night

. A police officer said Ashiq Hussain Dar, son of Mohammad Ramzan Dar, a resident of Maisuma, was rounded up on Wednesday night. “Dar was involved in a criminal case,” said the officer.

Malik, whose bastion is Maisuma only, intervened in the arrest case and met police officials for his release. After Malik failed to secure Dar’s release, Malik and his associates started a peaceful protest march. The protesters shouting pro-freedom slogans started demanding Dar’s release and marched through the main Maisuma street.

By the time, a huge posse of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and police personnel closed the mouth of the street and disallowed the procession. The police personnel and Malik entered into an altercation and exchanged blows. Read more…

Indian Kashmir clashes erupt

heraldsun.com.au

April 28, 2011

SECURITY forces in Indian Kashmir have fired teargas to disperse stone-pelting demonstrators, protesting against the arrest of a key separatist in the region’s main city Srinagar.

Authorities broke up the demonstration, led by the pro-independence Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF), after protesters hurled stones at security forces, according to witnesses and police.

No casualties were reported but the clash evoked memories of last summer’s massive pro-independence street violence in which at least 114 people were killed, many of them teenagers.

The situation in Srinagar remained tense with heavy deployment of security forces, a police officer told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.

« Hundreds of police and paramilitary personnel have been sent to the area, » the officer said.

The demonstrators started hurling stones after JKLF leader Mohammad Yaseen Malik and two senior party colleagues were arrested for leading a sit-in to protest against indiscriminate arrests of young people, police said. Read more…