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- <title>
- Jan. 18, 1993: Blood Tide Rising
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 18, 1993 Fighting Back: Spouse Abuse
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 19
- Blood Tide Rising
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Indian forces carry out one of the worst massacres in Kashmir's
- history
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- <p> Perhaps there is a special corner in hell reserved for
- soldiers who fire their weapons indiscriminately into a crowd of
- unarmed civilians. That, at least, must have been the hope of
- every resident who defied an army-enforced curfew in the Kashmiri
- town of Sopore last Thursday to protest a massacre that left 55
- people dead and scores injured. It was India's latest blow in
- a three-year campaign to crush the predominantly Muslim state's
- bid for independence. In retaliation for the killing of one
- soldier, paramilitary forces rampaged through Sopore's market
- setting buildings ablaze and shooting bystanders. The Indian
- government pronounced the event "unfortunate" and claimed that
- an ammunition dump had been hit by gunfire, setting off fires
- that killed most of the victims.
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- </body>
- </article>
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