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Monday, September 13, 2010

Kashmir: Deadly Koran-Protests..[ 1793 ]

Thirteen killed in Kashmir Koran protests
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By Sheikh Mushtaq
SRINAGAR, India | Mon Sep 13, 2010 10:50am EDT
SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - At least 13 people were killed on Monday in anti-government and Koran demonstrations across Indian Kashmir, police said, in the biggest single death toll from protests in the disputed region in years.
The toll includes at least seven people killed in police clashes after thousands of Muslim protesters set fire to a Christian missionary school and government buildings in two Kashmiri districts to denounce reports that copies of the Koran, the Muslim holy book had been damaged in the United States.

Police said these demonstrations, attended by thousands in western Kashmir, quickly turned into separatist protests against the Indian central government -- a day after authorities slapped a curfew on much of the restive Himalayan region.
The deaths are a huge challenge for the Congress-led government, which has been criticized for failing to treat the protests seriously, underscoring a policy limbo in New Delhi that may spill over into tension with Pakistan, which claims Kashmir.
The crowds massed in Budgam and Tangmarg areas chanting slogans denouncing the United States. They set fire to government buildings and a school owned by a Protestant church, witnesses and officials said.
At least 75 people were injured, 12 of them by bullet wounds, police said.
Kashmir has seen mass rallies against Indian rule in the last three months and at least 70 protesters have been killed by police. Demonstrations on other issues -- such as the Koran -- can often balloon into wider anti-government sentiment.

On Sunday, two people were killed in a third straight day of violent protests in Afghanistan sparked by a U.S. pastor's threat to burn copies of the Koran.
While pastor Terry Jones dropped his plans, there were at least two incidents of abuse of the Koran in Lower Manhattan in New York on Saturday. Two evangelical preachers not affiliated with any mainstream church burned two copies of the Koran in Tennessee.
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It was unclear which incidents the Kashmiri demonstrators were denouncing. Iranian TV reports were aired in Kashmir on Sunday about alleged desecrations of the Koran - a grave insult to Muslims who believe the Koran to be the literal word of God.
(Writing by Alistair Scrutton; Editing by Paul de Bendern and Ron Popeski)
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