India charts out new plan to crush Kashmiris

The Indian forces are out with another dreadful plan to crush the voices of innocent Kashmiris and restore peace in the valley, a foreign news agency reports. The army, police and paramilitary forces said Wednesday they had formulated a joint strategy to restore peace in the valley where scores of anti-India protesters have been shot dead.Along with the hundreds of thousand of Kashmiris, the global community is also strongly reacting against the brutalities of the Indian forces. The violent demonstrations, dubbed the Kashmiri intifada by some observers, was triggered in early June by the killing of Tufail Ahmad Matoo, a 17-year-old student, in a stone-pelting clash with policemen in its summer capital, Srinagar. But the protests soon turned into a larger expression of anger, disillusionment and hopelessness over Kashmirs decades-old territorial dispute. After Mondays incident, a round-the-lock curfew has been clamped on the entire Kashmir valley, crippling normal life. Srinagars streets have the appearance of a war zone. Barbed wire fences have been erected around the city and its deserted roads are littered with the stones and the detritus from the running battles between agitators and policemen. Pockets of gun-wielding security personnel, gathered around small bonfires, are the only visible sign of life.