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Shrine clash threatens to tear Kashmir from India
It started as a small demonstration against a plan to build bathrooms and shelters for Hindu pilgrims visiting a shrine in Kashmir. But 12 deaths and 47 days of rioting have transformed the protests into one of the worst political crises to hit this Himalayan region, threatening to sever the bonds between the predominantly Muslim region of Kashmir and Hindu-majority India.

Even during the last two decades of a brutal separatist rebellion in Kashmir and India's harsh military response, the region remained firmly tethered to the rest of India through its coexistence with the predominantly Hindu region of Jammu — united in the state of Jammu-Kashmir.
Actually in 1988, Sringar was a 'liberated' zone with militants openly on the streets and bus conductors shouting "'pindi, 'pindi" as they recruited young men for training across the border
The traditionally good relations between the two regions
minus the ethnic cleansing of 300,000 Hindus from the Kashmir valley
were a rare bright point in the long-troubled region that has otherwise been a flash point for Hindu-Muslim conflict and the rivalry between India and Pakistan.
Posted by: Fred 2008-08-10
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=246636