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would soon learn the security forces and the militants take who they
want, they torture, and they kill. Caught in the middle are the people
of Kashmir. More than 60,000 people, mostly innocent civilians, have
died in the 15-year conflict. Half a million Indian troops are stationed
in Kashmir, fighting Pakistani-funded militants who slip across the
border to attack the troops but also to terrorize the local population
into giving them shelter and assistance.
I
would soon learn the security forces and the militants take who they
want, they torture, and they kill. Caught in the middle are the people
of Kashmir. More than 60,000 people, mostly innocent civilians, have
died in the 15-year conflict. Half a million Indian troops are stationed
in Kashmir, fighting Pakistani-funded militants who slip across the
border to attack the troops but also to terrorize the local population
into giving them shelter and assistance.
While both governments talk of peace, Unreported
World reveals that, on the ground, very little has changed. For the
local villagers life is a cycle of militant violence and government
repression. The team arrive in Srinagar to find Indian police have just
violently beaten a group of women who are protesting about the detention
of two men and a woman for alleged links to pro-Pakistan militants.
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