Friday, May 8, 2009

Poll protesters hurt in Kashmir teargas firing

. Friday, May 8, 2009

SRINAGAR: At least 30 people were injured when Indian police in Indian-held Kashmir’s (IHK) main city fired teargas shells on Friday to disperse thousands of people protesting the general election, police said. More than 6,000 protesters led by separatist leader and chief cleric Mirwaiz Umar Farooq marched through downtown Srinagar and pelted police with stones, said police officer Muhammed Shafi. Turnout in the valley, flashpoint of a two-decade-long insurgency, was as low as 19 percent on Thursday after anti-India separatists called for a poll boycott. “Boycott is a democratic verdict. People have rejected the 62-year-old repression by India,” said Syed Ali Shah Geelani, a senior separatist leader, at Friday prayers at a Srinagar mosque.link...

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