Police said suspected militants fired at two Kashmiri Hindu brothers inside an apple orchard in the Shopian district in the south of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Both were taken to a hospital with critical gunshot wounds where one died, police said in a statement.Kashmir has witnessed a spate of targeted killings in recent months. Several Hindus, including immigrant workers from Indian States, have been killed.
The spate of killings this year come as Indian troops have continued counter-insurgency operations across the region amid a clampdown on dissent and press freedom, which critics have likened to a militaristic policy.Rebels in the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir have been fighting New Delhi's rule since 1989. Most Muslim Kashmiris support the rebel goal of uniting the territory, either under Pakistani rule or as an independent country.
India insists the Kashmir militancy is Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. Pakistan denies the charge, and most Kashmiris consider it a legitimate freedom struggle. Tens of thousands of civilians, rebels and government forces have been killed in the conflict. Kashmir's minority Hindus have long fretted over their place in the disputed region. Most of an estimated 200,000 of them fled Kashmir in the 1990s when an armed rebellion against Indian rule began. Some 4,000 of them later returned after 2010 as part of a government resettlement plan that provided them with jobs and housing.
Is Kashmir a town in Saskatchewan or some far away place irrelevant to Canadians? I can’t remember?
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