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Ten killed as rebels storm army camp in Kashmir
Khaleej Times, (Reuters)
28 June 2003
JAMMU, India - Ten people, including eight soldiers, were killed and
four wounded when suspected Muslim Kashmiri rebels attacked a military
camp in Indian Kashmir on Saturday, a police official said. This latest
violence comes during the visit of Indian President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam to
the Himalayan region. He is scheduled to return to New Delhi on Saturday.
“The operation is over. Both the militants have been killed,” the
police official told Reuters.
He said two rebels dressed in army uniform had lobbed grenades into the camp and sprayed it with automatic weapons fire in a pre-dawn attack.
It took place on an army camp near Sunjwan, about 11 km (7 miles) south of Jammu, the winter capital of Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim majority state.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The killings took place close to the army camp at Kaluchak where rebels killed more than two dozen people in May 2002 bringing nuclear-armed India and Pakistan to the brink of a third war over the region.
Both countries have since then toned down rhetoric and initiated a peace process in April this year restoring full diplomatic and transport links as part of confidence building measures meant to pave the way for eventual peace talks.
New Delhi accuses Islamabad of arming and training Kashmiri insurgents. Pakistan denies charges it foments violence there but says it provides moral and diplomatic support for what it calls a Kashmiri freedom struggle.
Killings have continued unabated in the region despite the thaw in ties between India and Pakistan.
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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| The Israeli apartheid (security) wall around Palestinian population centers in the West Bank (Ran Cohen, pmc, 5/24/03). |
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