There’s nothing about this in One India thus far....
[AlAhram] Hundreds of Moslems chanting religious and pro-freedom slogans erupted into the streets in the main city of Srinagar despite security restrictions banning the traditional processionPolice in Indian-controlled Kashmir
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...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir. The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
fired tear gas and warning shots Tuesday to disperse Shiite Moslems who attempted to participate in processions marking the Moslem month of Muharram. Dozens of people were detained.
Government forces used batons to beat journalists covering the procession, according to a local news hound. Authorities erected steel barricades and barbed wire to block the crowds.
'We respect the religious sentiments and practices of all, but at the same time, it is also our joint responsibility to defeat the ill designs of vested interests who try to disturb the peaceful atmosphere,'' police Inspector-General Vijay Kumar said on Twitter.
Muharram is among the holiest months for Shiite Moslems across the world and includes large processions of people beating their chests while reciting elegies to mourn the death of the Prophet Muhammad's grandson. The mourning reaches its peak on Ashura, the 10th day of the month in the Islamic lunar calendar. Tuesday's procession marked the eighth day on the calendar.
The traditional religious procession turned
Some main Muharram processions have been banned in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir since an armed insurgency broke out in 1989 demanding the region's independence from India or its merger with neighboring Pakistain. Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict.
Kashmiri Moslems have long complained that the government is curbing their religious freedom on the pretext of maintaining law and order while promoting an annual Hindu pilgrimage to the Himalayan Amarnath Shrine in Kashmir that draws hundreds of thousands of visitors. The pilgrimage has been canceled for the last two years because of the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
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