Kashmir is witness to a new wave of mass protests against its occupation by Indian Army, this time from its students.
The protests have been called by the Kashmir University Students Union, a lesser known student body, against brutality by the Army upon students of Government College in Pulwama City in South Kashmir.
These students were brutalized by the Army, leaving over 50 badly injured after they dared to protest against an Army raid inside the College on Saturday.
Protesting against this repression, the students of S.P. College in Srinagar, had blocked Maulana Azad Road of the state Capital, yesterday on 17th. It took no time for demonstrations to spread over first to capital Srinagar and then to the entire valley as the security forces resorted to rubber bullets, tear gas and lathicharge against the protesting students.
The mass upsurge is culmination of a chain of events where repression by the army has continued to touch ever new heights with record escalations in last few weeks that includes the merciless killing of 8 unarmed Kashmiris by the Security forces, parading a tailor tied on the bonnet of an army jeep across 9 villages and hunting down of an innocent boy by paramilitary trooper on April 10 at Budgam by-polls.
The protests have been called by the Kashmir University Students Union, a lesser known student body, against brutality by the Army upon students of Government College in Pulwama City in South Kashmir.
These students were brutalized by the Army, leaving over 50 badly injured after they dared to protest against an Army raid inside the College on Saturday.
Protesting against this repression, the students of S.P. College in Srinagar, had blocked Maulana Azad Road of the state Capital, yesterday on 17th. It took no time for demonstrations to spread over first to capital Srinagar and then to the entire valley as the security forces resorted to rubber bullets, tear gas and lathicharge against the protesting students.
The mass upsurge is culmination of a chain of events where repression by the army has continued to touch ever new heights with record escalations in last few weeks that includes the merciless killing of 8 unarmed Kashmiris by the Security forces, parading a tailor tied on the bonnet of an army jeep across 9 villages and hunting down of an innocent boy by paramilitary trooper on April 10 at Budgam by-polls.
