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- From: ghosh@sp1.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sanjoy Ghosh)
- Newsgroups: soc.culture.indian
- Subject: Re: Reminders of Internal Turmoil on Republic Day
- Keywords: Republic Day
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.202640.17019@csrd.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:26:40 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.174613.22452@ulysses.att.com>
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- Organization: Univ of Illinois, Center for Supercomputing R&D, Urbana, IL
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- (Bala Krishnamurthy) writes:
- >apnews reports:
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- > In Kashmir, the Muslim-majority province of northern India,
- >separatist rebels taunted Indian security forces with potshots from
- >narrow lanes and windows and fired rockets during the Republic Day
- >festivities at a stadium in the city of Srinagar.
- > Gunfire crackled through the city most of the day and the army
- >searched house-to-house for snipers.
-
- >Hundreds of men were paraded
- >in the streets in front of hooded informers who were pointing out
- >militants.
-
- Sounds straight out of Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities". This truly
- scares me. Much more than crazy Shiv Sainiks going on a rampage.
-
- Sanjoy Ghosh
-