A Documentary Film: The Killing of Kashmir

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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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10 Years Since Downing St. Memo: Is It Happening Again?

The Real News, July 24, 2012:

 

	10 Years Since Downing St. Memo: Is It Happening Again?
	Ray McGovern and Annie Machon: British Intelligence chief ramps up war talk against Iran  July 24, 2012

	The Downing Street memo Pt.1
	McGovern: It’s there in black and white – The intelligence and facts are being fixed around the policy  August 8, 2009

	The Downing Street memo Pt.2
	Ray McGovern: The “Memo” shows a premeditated war of aggression with intent to deceive  August 10, 2009

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The Dark Side Of The Obama White House

Dan Froomkin, HuffingtonPost, July 25, 2012

 

The most conspicuous reaction in Washington to a series of astonishing national security revelations, many of which emerged in two new books, has come from prominent members of Congress demanding investigations into who leaked them.

One member, California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein, even complained of learning more from one of the books than she did in her top oversight post over the intelligence community.

But anybody upset about finding things out this way should be angry at the people who didn’t tell them what they needed to know — not the ones who did.

In “Confront and Conceal: Obama’s Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power,” New York Times reporter David E. Sanger describes in quite extraordinary detail the Obama administration’s hitherto secret cyberwar campaign against Iran, its targeted drone strikes against Al Qaeda and affiliates, and any number of other covert ops, including of course the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. As he indicates in his subtitle, Sanger concludes that the biggest surprise of the Obama presidency is just how aggressive he has been in his application of military power.

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Richard Falk: A Brief Further Comment on Syria

Richard Falk, July 25, 2012

Some of the sharpest critics of my posts contend that I focus too much attention on Israel while exempting the far worse Syrian regime from any sort of harsh condemnation. In fact, I did write a post devoted to the Syrian situation on May 31, 2012 in which I referred to the criminal character of the Assad regime and pointed to such bloody deeds (Crimes Against Humanity) as the Houla massacre that had occurred a few days before. In my mind, there is no doubt that the behavior of the ruling clique in Damascus is genocidal, and should be condemned and appropriate international action undertaken to protect the people of Syria.


But what is appropriate in such a situation is far from self-evident. The clarity of condemnation should not be confused with devising a prescription for action. Military interveRichard Falkntion rarely succeeds, violates the right of self-determination, and often expands the scope and severity of violence, especially if carried out from the air. Furthermore, we know little about the opposition in Syria, to what extent its governance of the country would be based on the rule of law and human rights. There are confusing reports about rebel atrocities as well as concerning the role of Al Qaeda operatives leading some of the rebel forces, and also indications that Gulf money and weapons have been supplied to these forces ever since the beginning of the anti-Damascus uprising. Every government has the right to fight against its internal enemies, especially if heavily assisted by hostile external forces, although that right must be exercised within the framework of constraints imposed by international humanitarian law.


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Glenn Greenwald: The Obama GITMO myth

New vindictive restrictions on detainees highlights the falsity of Obama defenders regarding closing the camp

By Glenn Greenwald, Salon, July 23, 20


Accused Sept. 11 co-conspirator Ramzi Binalshibh is shown while attending his military hearing at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP/Janet Hamlin)

Most of the 168 detainees at Guantanamo have been imprisoned by the U.S. Government for close to a decade without charges and with no end in sight to their captivity. Some now die at Guantanamo, thousands of miles away from their homes and families, without ever having had the chance to contest accusations of guilt. During the Bush years, the plight of these detainees was a major source of political controversy, but under Obama, it is now almost entirely forgotten. On those rare occasions when it is raised, Obama defenders invoke a blatant myth to shield the President from blame: he wanted and tried so very hard to end all of this, but Congress would not let him. Especially now that we’re in an Election Year, and in light of very recent developments, it’s long overdue to document clearly how misleading that excuse is.

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Obama: Shooting People “Evil … Senseless”

by Jay Janson, Dissident Voice, July 22nd, 2012

While reading the text of Obama Statement on Shootings in Colorado, one line struck this writer as quite astounding:

“We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings like this. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It’s beyond reason.”

The President may have realized afterward that since he has been ordering the shooting of thousands in a half-dozen countries, the words “evil, senseless, beyond reason” could easily reflect back on himself. A later Obama statement on the massacre in a Colorado movie house did not contain the words “evil,” “senseless,” “violence beyond reason.”

In any case, history books, in some future, probably not to distant, day will deplore Obama’s pathetic 9/11 excuse for increasing and extending a ten-year-old military occupation war in dirt poor Afghanistan, killing, and killing easily, young and old Afghani, who are fighting invaders of theirir nation as they have always done. And perhaps one day independent investigative journalism will reveal whose instructions Obama was following from within that “financial element” that FDR confided “has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson.”¹

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Stephen Hawking: God was not needed to create the Universe

The Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the Universe, Stephen Hawking has concluded.

The Big Bang was the result of the inevitable laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the Universe, Stephen Hawking has concluded. Photo: GETTY IMAGES

By Laura Roberts, The Telegraph, Sep 2, 2011

The scientist has claimed that no divine force was needed to explain why the Universe was formed.

In his latest book, The Grand Design, an extract of which is published in Eureka magazine in The Times, Hawking said: “Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist.”

He added: “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going.”

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Victims of Norway mass murderer Anders Breivik remembered one year on

Daily Record, July 22 2012

 

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NORWAY is commemorating the 77 victims of a bomb and gun massacre that shocked the peaceful nation one year ago.

Anders Behring Breivik, a 33-year-old far-right fanatic, has admitted to the attacks on July 22 last year – a bombing of the government headquarters in Oslo, killing eight, and a shooting rampage that left 69 dead at the left-wing Labour Party’s youth camp on Utoya island.

In a wreath-laying ceremony at the bomb site today, prime minister Jens Stoltenberg said Breivik had not succeeded in his declared goal of destroying Norway’s commitment to being an inclusive, multicultural society.
Mr Stoltenberg said: “The bomb and the gun shots were meant to change Norway. The Norwegian people answered by embracing our values. The perpetrator lost. The people won.”

In Oslo, tarps still cover the windows of bomb-damaged buildings on the plaza, and large cement road blocks stop all but pedestrian traffic.

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Ilan Pappe: Israel coined the term “Nakba” and is still implementing it

Prof. Ilan Pappe,The Electronic Intifada, 20 July 2012

 

Home demolitions carried out today are a continuation of the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestine.
(Mahfouz Abu Turk / APA images)

In the July lull between the two truces of the 1948 war that involved Israel and troops sent from neighboring Arab states to try and salvage Palestine, another stage in the ethnic cleansing operation of the country was completed.

While in April 1948 the urban space of Palestine was almost completely destroyed by the Zionist forces, pockets of the rural areas and three towns, al-Lid, Ramleh and Nazareth were still safe, but not for long.

Within the ten days of the lull (known in Israeli historiography as the “ten days war”), more Palestinian land was occupied and more people uprooted. The newly-born Jewish state promised the UN mediator at the time to cease fighting and explained that the July operations were just minor cleansing of pockets of resistance.

The UN did not buy the lie, but was already then a helpless and hapless organization. Only the city of Nazareth was spared and it is not very clear why. Zionist leader and Israel’s first Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, who was very keen to depopulate it not only from its original inhabitants but also from the tens of thousands of refugees who found shelter there since May 1948, in the very last moment was convinced by someone to leave i intact.

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Human Rights Violations In Indian Occupied Kashmir

Posted on 18. May, 2012 by S M Hali in Kashmir, Opinion Maker, May 18, 2012

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Repealing AFSPA—need of the hour

“The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions took a serious exception to concerns about unlawful killings, both in terms of prevention and accountability. His emphasis was on the use of force by state actors like the police and the armed forces.”

Christof Heyns, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, conducted a 12 days’ fact finding mission into Indian Occupied Kashmir. At the end of his tour, the UN Human Rights organization issued a formal Press Statement highlighting the concerns of the high level UN visit. Whereas, Christof Heyns took cognizance of India being a robust democracy, he also expressed serious concerns, stating that at the same time India faces many challenges to the realization of human rights, including movements aimed at separation or greater local autonomy, Maoist or Naxalite, insurgency, organized crime, and communal organizations opposed to secularism, plurality and equality.

The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions took a serious exception to concerns about unlawful killings, both in terms of prevention and accountability. His emphasis was on the use of force by state actors like the police and the armed forces. He highlighted the disproportionate use of force during demonstrations, which resulted in over 100 deaths, in 2010 in Jammu and Kashmir. His major concern was that demonstrations in New Delhi and other states were never treated harshly while unbridled force was unleashed on demonstrators in Indian Occupied Kashmir.

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Assassination Nation:Fifty Years of US Targeted ‘Kill Lists’: From the Phoenix Program to Predator Drones

by DOUG NOBLE, Counterpunch, July 19, 2012

 “A broad-gauged program of targeted assassination has now displaced counterinsurgency as the prevailing expression of the American way of war.”

–Andrew Bacevich [1]

This spring the US drone killing program has come out of the closet. Attorney General Eric Holder publicly defended the drone killing of an American citizen [2], while Obama’s counter terrorism czar John Brennan publicly explained and justified the target killing program [3]. And a New York Times article by Jo Becker and Scott Shane chronicled Obama’s personal role in vetting a secret “Kill List.” [4]

This striking new transparency, the official acknowledgment for the first time of a broad-based US assassination and targeted killing program, has resulted from the unprecedented and controversial visibility of drone warfare. Drones now make news every day, and those of us who have been protesting their use for years have heightened their visibility in the public eye, forcing official acknowledgment and fostering worldwide scrutiny.  This new scrutiny focuses not only on drone use but also, and perhaps more importantly, on the targeted killing itself – and the “kill lists” that make them possible.

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Photos: Indian military killings and violence in Kashmir

denverpost.com, Posted Oct 22, 2010

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(AP) — Pakistan called Friday for President Barack Obama to intervene in its long-standing dispute with India over the Himalayan region of Kashmir, the cause of two of the three wars the nuclear-armed rivals have fought.

Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi made the unusually blunt appeal for Obama to seek a resolution of the dispute when he visits India next month, saying he should “redeem the pledge” he made as a candidate.

The conflict over Kashmir has been the main source of friction between India and Pakistan since they won independence from Britain in 1947. Pakistan has frequently sought outside intervention to resolve it but India vehemently opposes such involvement and the United States has traditionally stayed above the fray.

Qureshi expressed astonishment that the U.S. and other major powers had said little about India’s response to the protests.

“People of conscience have protested the use of force against the defenseless people of Kashmir, in particular the targeting of the Kashmiri youth,” he said. “But the Kashmiri mothers are baffled by the deafening silence of the world’s leadership. History has proved that the force of arms cannot suppress the legitimate aspirations of the Kashmiri people.”

India and Pakistan fought two wars for control of Muslim-majority Kashmir, where rebels have sought independence from India or incorporation with neighboring Pakistan.
More than 68,000 people, most of them civilians, have been killed in Kashmir since fighting began in earnest in 1989.

Indian government forces say they have evacuated hundreds of people after a fierce gunbattle erupted with three suspected Muslim rebels hiding in a village in the Indian portion of Kashmir.

Lt. Col. J.S. Brar, an Indian army spokesman, says soldiers and police cordoned a portion of Maloora, a village on the outskirts of the region’s main city Srinagar, following intelligence that suspected rebels were hiding there.

Brar said Thursday heavy gunfire between the suspected rebels and government forces is continuing.

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An Indian Army soldier takes cover after firing at suspected militants during a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Troops evacuated hundreds of people as a fierce gunbattle erupted with three suspected Muslim rebels hiding in a village home in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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Protestors run as policemen try to catch them during a protest in Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. Indian authorities imposed curfew in some parts of Srinagar fearing protests following a strike call given by separatist leaders. Kashmir has been rocked by protests since last four months which has killed more than hundred people. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Kashmiri Muslims cover their ears as an improvised explosive device (IED) explodes outside the police control room in Srinagar, India, Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. The IED was successfully diffused by a bomb squad Monday. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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Indian paramilitary soldiers patrol a deserted street in Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. Indian authorities imposed curfew in some parts of Srinagar fearing protests following a strike call given by separatist leaders. Kashmir has been rocked by protests since last four months which has killed more than a hundred people. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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An Indian policeman gestures the media to move away shortly after an improvised explosive device (IED) was diffused outside a police control room in Srinagar, India, Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. The IED was successfully diffused by a bomb squad Monday. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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Indian paramilitary soldiers arrive after an improvised explosive device (IED) was diffused outside a police control room in Srinagar, India, Monday, Oct. 18, 2010. The IED was successfully diffused by a bomb squad Monday. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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An unidentified relative of Ghulam Nabi Mir wails during his funeral procession in Pampore, about 20 kilometers (13 miles) south of Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. Mir, a local shopkeeper was injured when he was allegedly beaten by security forces last week. He succumbed to injuries at a local hospital, family members said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Kashmiris react after Indian paramilitary soldiers broke the door and glass panes of their home during a protest in Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. Indian authorities imposed curfew in some parts of Srinagar fearing protests following a strike call given by separatist leaders. Kashmir has been rocked by protests since last four months which has killed more than hundred people. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Relatives and neighbors bury the body of Ghulam Nabi Mir in Pampore, about 20 kilometers (13 miles) south of Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. Mir, a local shopkeeper, was injured when he was allegedly beaten by security forces last week. He succumbed to injuries at a local hospital, family members said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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An Indian Army soldier carries a child to safety during a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Troops evacuated hundreds of people as a fierce gunbattle erupted with three suspected Muslim rebels hiding in a village home in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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An Indian police man checks identity card of a Kashmiri Muslim at a temporary check post during a strike in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Kashmir has been engulfed by strikes and street protests by demonstrators demanding independence or a merger with Pakistan. Businesses have lost millions of dollars and schools have been forced to shut down. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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An Indian soldier stands guard as Kashmiri civilians move to safety during a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Troops evacuated hundreds of people as a fierce gunbattle erupted with three suspected Muslim rebels hiding in a village home in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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An Indian Army soldier fires at suspected militants as a dog rushes to safety during a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Troops evacuated hundreds of people as a fierce gunbattle erupted with three suspected Muslim rebels hiding in a village home in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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A Kashmiri woman shouts as she moves along with her children to a safer place during a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Troops evacuated hundreds of people as a fierce gunbattle erupted with three suspected Muslim rebels hiding in a village home in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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An Indian Army soldier runs to take position during a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Troops evacuated hundreds of people as a fierce gunbattle erupted with three suspected Muslim rebels hiding in a village home in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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An Indian Army soldier gestures as they cordon off the area during a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Troops evacuated hundreds of people as a fierce gunbattle erupted with three suspected Muslim rebels hiding in a village home in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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An Indian Army soldier gestures towards camera during a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Troops evacuated hundreds of people as a fierce gunbattle erupted with three suspected Muslim rebels hiding in a village home in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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Kashmiri muslims carry a generator during a search through the rubble of a damaged house after a gunbattle between suspected militants and Indian troops in Maloora, on the outskirts of Srinagar on October 22, 2010. Three militants slain in a gunbattle in Indian Kashmir were on a suicide mission to attack Indian military bases, a rebel group said, adding three other guerrillas escaped. Two of the militants from the hardline Pakistan-based rebel group Jaish-e-Mohammed were killed during a fierce gunbattle on the outskirts of Indian Kashmir summer capital Srinagar. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Kashmiri muslims search through the rubble of their damaged house after a gunbattle between suspected militants and Indian troops in Maloora, on the outskirts of Srinagar on October 22, 2010. Three militants slain in a gunbattle in Indian Kashmir were on a suicide mission to attack Indian military bases, a rebel group said, adding three other guerrillas escaped. Two of the militants from the hardline Pakistan-based rebel group Jaish-e-Mohammed were killed during a fierce gunbattle on the outskirts of Indian Kashmir summer capital Srinagar. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Relatives of wounded Mohammad Yousaf carry him on a stretcher at a local hospital in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010. Yousaf was wounded inside the compound of his house when police and paramilitary soldiers fired at group of protesters in Baramullah town, family members alleged. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Kashmiri women console another inside their partially damaged house after a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Residents in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir Friday alleged Indian troops of stealing valuables from their houses a day after army said troops killed three suspected rebels in a nine-hour fighting in a village. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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An Indian paramilitary soldier stands guard on an empty street during curfew hours in Srinagar on October 19, 2010. Muslim-majority Kashmir has experienced rolling curfews and strikes since June 11, when a 17-year-old student was killed by a police teargas shell. Since then, more than 110 protesters and bystanders have died in the region. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Indian soldiers take positions during an encounter as separatist militants and soldiers fight a gunbattle in Maloora, a residential area of Srinagar, on October 21, 2010. Soldiers shot dead two militants during a gunbattle October 21 in a residential area of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, which has been under regular curfews for months. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Indian Army soldiers watch from a distance as their colleagues fight with suspected militants, near the site of a gun battle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Indian troops killed two suspected rebels in a nine-hour gun battle in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday, police said.(AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Indian policemen take position among chillies being dried on top of a residence as separatist militants and soldiers fight a gunbattle in Maloora, a residential area of Srinagar, on October 21, 2010. Soldiers shot dead two militants during a gunbattle October 21 in a residential area of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, which has been under regular curfews for months. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Kashmiri people look at a damaged house after a gunbattle between suspected militants and Indian troops in Maloora, on the outskirts of Srinagar on October 22, 2010. Three militants slain in a gunbattle in Indian Kashmir were on a suicide mission to attack Indian military bases, a rebel group said, adding three other guerrillas escaped. Two of the militants from the hardline Pakistan-based rebel group Jaish-e-Mohammed were killed during a fierce gunbattle on the outskirts of Indian Kashmir summer capital Srinagar. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Indian Army soldiers share a light moment during a gun battle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Indian troops killed two suspected rebels in a nine-hour gunbattle in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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An Indian Army soldier checks his ammunition before joining his colleagues to fight with suspected militants near the site of a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Indian troops killed two suspected rebels in a nine-hour gunbattle in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Indian Army soldiers look from inside of an armored vehicle near the site of a gun battle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Indian troops killed two suspected rebels in a nine-hour gun battle in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Kashmiri people look at a damaged house after a gunbattle between suspected militants and Indian troops in Maloora, on the outskirts of Srinagar on October 22, 2010. Three militants slain in a gunbattle in Indian Kashmir were on a suicide mission to attack Indian military bases, a rebel group said, adding three other guerrillas escaped. Two of the militants from the hardline Pakistan-based rebel group Jaish-e-Mohammed were killed during a fierce gunbattle on the outskirts of Indian Kashmir summer capital Srinagar. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Indian soldiers evacuate a Kashmiri family as separatist militants and soldiers fight a gunbattle in Maloora, a residential area of Srinagar, on October 21, 2010. Soldiers shot dead two militants during a gunbattle October 21 in a residential area of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, which has been under regular curfews for months. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Paramilitary soldiers are dressed for wet weather as they patrol a hilly terrain, a day after a gun battle in the region, in Pulwama, India, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. The Indian Army said troops killed three suspected rebels in a nine-hour battle in a village on the outskirts of Srinagar. (AP Photo) ** INDIA OUT ** #

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An Indian soldier takes position on top of a vehicle as separatist militants and soldiers fight a gunbattle in Maloora, a residential area of Srinagar, on October 21, 2010. Soldiers shot dead two militants during a gunbattle October 21 in a residential area of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, which has been under regular curfews for months. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Kashmiri residents are held back from entering an area as separatist militants and soldiers fight a gunbattle in Maloora, a residential area of Srinagar, on October 21, 2010. Soldiers shot dead two militants during a gunbattle October 21 in a residential area of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, which has been under regular curfews for months. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Kashmiris salvage their belongings from the debris of a house after a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Residents in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir Friday alleged Indian troops of stealing valuables from their houses a day after army said troops killed three suspected rebels in a nine-hour fighting in a village. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Indian Army soldiers take cover behind a wall as they try to storm a house where suspected militants were hiding during a gun battle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Indian troops killed two suspected rebels in a nine-hour gun battle in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday, police said.(AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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An Indian Army soldier checks his gun before joining his colleagues to fight with suspected militants near the site of a gun battle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Indian troops killed two suspected rebels in a nine-hour gun battle in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday, police said.(AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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A Kashmiri woman wails inside her partially damaged house after a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Residents in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir Friday alleged Indian troops of stealing valuables from their houses a day after army said troops killed three suspected rebels in a nine-hour fighting in a village. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Indian Army soldiers takes cover behind a wall as they try to storm a house where suspected militants were hiding during a gun battle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Indian troops killed two suspected rebels in a nine-hour gun battle in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Kashmiri Muslim women salvage their belongings from the debris of a house after a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Residents in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir Friday alleged Indian troops of stealing valuables from their houses a day after army said troops killed three suspected rebels in a nine-hour fighting in a village. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Smoke billows following an explosion as separatist militants and soldiers fight a gunbattle in Maloora, a residential area of Srinagar, on October 21, 2010. Soldiers shot dead two militants during a gunbattle October 21 in a residential area of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir, which has been under regular curfews for months. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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An Indian Army soldier gestures to a civilian to move to safety during a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Troops evacuated hundreds of people as a fierce gunbattle erupted with three suspected Muslim rebels hiding in a village home in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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Empty bullet cartridge remain near the debris of a house after a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Residents in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir Friday alleged Indian troops of stealing valuables from their houses a day after army said troops killed three suspected rebels in a nine-hour fighting in a village. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Indian Army soldiers and a policeman take position behind a wall during a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. Troops evacuated hundreds of people as a fierce gunbattle erupted with three suspected Muslim rebels hiding in a village home in the Indian portion of Kashmir on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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A Kashmiri family react as they stand inside their partially damaged house after a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Residents in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir Friday alleged Indian troops of stealing valuables from their houses a day after army said troops killed three suspected rebels in a nine-hour fighting in a village. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Indian army soldiers and policeman fire towards Muslim militants during an encounter as separatist militants and soldiers fought a gunbattle in Maloora, a residential area of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir which has been under regular curfews for months, on October 21, 2010. Indian troops and counter-insurgency police surrounded a house where the militants were holed up early in the morning in the suburbs of the city. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Indian army soldiers and policemen open fire during an encounter as separatist militants and soldiers fought a gunbattle in Maloora, a residential area of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir which has been under regular curfews for months, on October 21, 2010. Indian troops and counter-insurgency police surrounded a house where the militants were holed up early in the morning in the suburbs of the city. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Indian army soldiers and policemen open fire during an encounter as separatist militants and soldiers fought a gunbattle in Maloora, a residential area of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir which has been under regular curfews for months, on October 21, 2010. Indian troops and counter-insurgency police surrounded a house where the militants were holed up early in the morning in the suburbs of the city. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Indian army soldiers and a policeman open fire during an encounter as separatist militants and soldiers fought a gunbattle in Maloora, a residential area of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir which has been under regular curfews for months, on October 21, 2010. Indian troops and counter-insurgency police surrounded a house where the militants were holed up early in the morning in the suburbs of the city. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A Kashmiri boy stands on the debris of a house after a gunbattle in the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Residents in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir Friday alleged Indian troops of stealing valuables from their houses a day after army said troops killed three suspected rebels in a nine-hour fighting in a village. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Indian army soldiers evacuate Kashmiri Muslims during an encounter as separatist militants and soldiers fought a gunbattle in Maloora, a residential area of Srinagar, the main city in Indian Kashmir which has been under regular curfews for months, on October 21, 2010. Indian troops and counter-insurgency police surrounded a house where the militants were holed up early in the morning in the suburbs of the city. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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A Kashmiri Muslim walks with his son on a road empty but for two cows during a curfew in downtown Srinagar on October 15, 2010. Kashmir has been under rolling curfews and strikes since early June, when a 17-year-old student was killed by a police teargas shell. Since then, a total of 110 protesters and bystanders have died in the region. AFP PHOTO / Sajjad HUSSAIN (Photo credit should read SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Indian police take part in a ceremony to mark the Police Commemoration Day at the Police Training Centre in Zewan on the outskirts of Srinagar on October 21,2010. The annual Police Commemoration Day is being observed on October 21 to remember and pay respect to policemen and security personnel killed in the troubled Kashmir region. TOPSHOTS / AFP PHOTO / Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Relatives and neighbors shout slogans as they carry the coffin of Ghulam Nabi Mir during his funeral procession in Pampore, about 20 kilometers (13 miles) south of Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. Mir, a local shopkeeper, was injured when he was allegedly beaten by security forces last week. He succumbed to injuries at a local hospital, family members said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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Kashmiri Muslims pray by the body of Ghulam Nabi Mir during his funeral procession in Pampore, about 20 kilometers (13 miles) south of Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 15, 2010. Mir, a local shopkeeper, was injured when he was allegedly beaten by security forces last week. He succumbed to injuries at a local hospital, family members said. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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An Indian paramilitary soldier asks motorists to show their curfew pass during a curfew in Srinagar, India, Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010. The Muslim majority Kashmir region is divided between mainly Hindu India and mainly Muslim Pakistan and claimed by both countries in its entirety. Since June, Indian-controlled Kashmir has been engulfed by street protests demanding independence or a merger with Pakistan. At least 108 people have been killed in the subsequent crackdown by security forces. (AP Photo/Mukhtar Khan) #

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Members of the Jammu and Kashmir High Court Bar Association (JKHCBA) shout pro-freedom and anti-Indian slogans during a protest in Srinagar on October 14, 2010. Dozens of lawyers protested outside the court complex demanding the release of their president and general secretary who has been detained under the public safety act during the recent uprising against Indian rule in which over a hundred protesters and bystanders have been killed. AFP PHOTO/Rouf BHAT (Photo credit should read ROUF BHAT/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Pakistani veiled female activists of the hardline party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) wearing ribbons on their heads with a slogan against India hold a protest rally in Islamabad on October 11, 2010 against the situation in India-administered Kashmir. Indian-ruled Kashmir has been hit by a wave of protests since June 11, when a 17-year old student was killed by a police teargas shell. Since then Indian security forces have been accused of killing a total of 110 people, mostly teenagers and students. AFP PHOTO/ AAMIR QURESHI (Photo credit should read AAMIR QURESHI/AFP/Getty Images) #

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Kashmiri villagers stand on the debris of a house after a gunbattle on the outskirts of Srinagar, India, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. Residents in a village in Indian-controlled Kashmir Friday alleged Indian troops of stealing valuables from their houses a day after army said troops killed three suspected rebels in a nine-hour fighting in a village. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin) #

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