Anti-India protests all across the country. (Kashmir, Punjab, Assam, Gujarat

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Situation's worsening... Almost seems coordinated by all the groups.

Anti-India protests in Srinagar, Kupwara
Ved Bhasin roughed up by police cops

Srinagar, April 28 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, forceful anti-India protest demonstrations were held in Srinagar and Kupwara areas.

Massive protests rocked Dalgate area of the Srinagar city after a shopkeeper Muzammil was ruthlessly beaten up by the Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel without any provocation.

Eyewitnesses told media men that 'Muzammil was mercilessly beaten up by the CRPF cops without any reason or provocation. The residents further said that the CRPF personnel have subjected them along with the shopkeepers to severe harassment for several months now.

''The high-handedness of the CRPF troops is evident by thet fact that anybody, wheher a shopkeeper or a resident, is beaten up without any provocation. We are living at the mercy of these CRPF personnel,'' the angry protestors said. Shops and business establishments in the entire downtown and Dalgate were closed and traffic was suspended in view of the tense situation in the area. The protestors shouted full-throated anti-India and pro-liberation slogans.

Similar anti-India protest demonstrations was held at Trehgam in Kupwara district.

Meanwhile, the Indian police cops stopped and did not allow Chairman of the Kashmir Times group of publications Ved Bhasin to meet the senior Kashmiri Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Gilani at his residence in Hyderpora Srinagar to enquire about the latter’s health. The cops behaved very rudely with Bhasin and tried to push him back. Later the ailing leader came out from his house and took him inside.

In Handwara, police personnel arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami Jammu and Kashmir Muhammad Ismail Lone at Langate. Lone has been taken to some unknown place. His family members are apprehensive about his welfare and whereabouts.

http://www.kmsnews.org/Kashmir News Archive/28/News280407-01.htm

Anti-India protests rock Srinagar, 1 youth martyred
Kashmiris’ inclusion in dialogue process demanded
Srinagar, April 27 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, forceful anti-India protest demonstrations rocked various areas of Srinagar today.

The demonstrations were staged at Habbakadal, Nowhatta, Haiderpora, Maisuma and several localities in the downtown of the city, including Khanyar and Gojwara. The protesters raised full-throated slogans condemning continued acts of Indian state-terrorism in occupied Kashmir. Scores of protesters were taken into custody.

At Habbakadal and Nowhatta, Indian police used brute force and fired tear smokes on the demonstrators, injuring several of them. The protests were staged to denounce demolition of an ancient mosque by Indian troops in the premises of the Hari Parbat Fort.

Meanwhile, Indian troops, in their fresh act of state-terrorism, martyred one more Kashmiri youth in Lolab area. Dead body of a youth was recovered from Mahore.

Senior APHC leader, Maulana Abbas Ansari, addressing a Juma congregation in Srinagar, reiterated Kashmiris’ demand for their inclusion in the Pakistan-India dialogue process to make it result-oriented. He urged India to reciprocate four-point formula of Pakistan President, General Pervez Musharraf to pave way for final solution of the Kashmir dispute.

http://www.kmsnews.org/Kashmir News Archive/27/News270407-06.htm

Sikhs Protest Sect Leader's 'Blasphemous' Act

CHANDIGARH - One died and over 100 suffered injuries in violent clashes all across Punjab and neighboring states after a little known sect's leader dressed up as the tenth Sikh guru, causing outrage among the religion's followers.

The week-long protests brought life to a standstill in Punjab and Haryana as Sikhs brandishing traditional swords and daggers marched through the streets of dozens of cities. The protests followed Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Raheem Singh's public appearance in the garb of Guru Gobind Singh. The sect's chief also offered Amrit to his followers and posed for newspaper advertisements.

http://www.indiawest.com/view.php?subaction=showfull&id=1180033152&archive=&start_from=&ucat=11

From anti-ULFA to anti-army protests in Assam

Recurring incidents of excesses and charges of staged shootouts by counter-insurgency forces in Assam has changed the tide from vibrant anti-militant protests to widespread anger against those fighting terror.

Barely a couple of months back, the hills and dales of Assam were reverberating with echoes of people shouting anti-militant slogans - close to 100 people were butchered since January in a string of bloody attacks and bombings.

All the attacks were blamed on the outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), a rebel group fighting for an independent Assamese homeland since 1979.

New Delhi responded immediately by resuming a military offensive against the ULFA. Never before did Assam witness such revulsions against the ULFA - protests were staged across the state with a multitude of people taking to the streets.

But in matter of weeks, the protests changed gear with the tone shifting from anti-militant to anti-army with federal soldiers making a number of unnecessary goof-ups by committing excesses on civilians and indulging in shootouts involving innocents.

For the past one week, Assam is reeling under a wave of anti-army protests over the killing of 24-year-old Buddheswar Moran in eastern Assam's Tinsukia district in an alleged 'encounter' (euphemism for staged shootouts) last weekend - army authorities earlier this week admitted it was an 'unfortunate incident' and ordered a probe.

Security analysts said frequent bungling by the army could boomerang.

"Incidents of fake killings, torture, and excesses, by the army in the name of countering militancy would further alienate the masses," former Assam police chief Hare Krishna Deka told IANS.

"To prolong intervention militarily in a civil conflict situation is a wrong policy and the government should try and resolve the problem through negotiations immediately."

Across eastern Assam, thousands of people blocked highways and shouted anti-army slogans over the killing of Moran - the army earlier claimed he was a 'hardcore ULFA' rebel. Locals refuted the charges and said Moran was a private guard at a tea plantation and had no militant links.

The army engaged in anti-insurgency operations in Assam and Arunachal Pradesh is under fire over frequent allegations of rights violations, torture of innocent civilians, and fake encounters while conducting raids.

"You cannot allow state-sponsored terrorism to continue in a democratic country," warned Lachit Bordoloi, who heads the Manab Adhikar Sangram Samity (MASS), a leading rights group in Assam.

The excesses committed by the army have given the ULFA the much needed arm to bounce back and enlist public sympathy.

"The mounting anti-army protests vindicate our stand that the army has been unleashing terror on innocent civilians. The army should go back immediately," ULFA chairman Arabinda Rajkhowa said in a statement Friday.

Earlier this week the army tendered an apology to the Arunachal Pradesh government after government lawmakers alleged atrocities committed on locals by soldiers while conducting raids on ULFA bases.

In July last year, the army punished Major Nishant Sharma and Rifleman Sudip Gurung after finding the duo guilty of killing a villager in custody - the court of inquiry was ordered after widespread public protests in eastern Assam.

In December, the army was mired in yet another row over torture in custody of a separatist suspect. Army authorities were later forced to apologize and order a court of inquiry after Nipul Saikia, a farmer, was picked up by soldiers and was seriously injured while in custody.

Top army commanders later apologized for the incident following mounting public upsurge.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/Story...From+anti-ULFA+to+anti-army+protests+in+Assam

No point in re mentioning Hyderabad in this thread too.