{"id":234,"date":"2004-02-09T10:39:45","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T14:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/02\/09\/police-fire-at-kashmir-demonstration"},"modified":"2004-02-09T10:39:45","modified_gmt":"2004-02-09T14:39:45","slug":"police-fire-at-kashmir-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/02\/09\/police-fire-at-kashmir-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Fire at Kashmir Demonstration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a115'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\">Police in Indian-administered Kashmir <A href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/south_asia\/3470587.stm\">opened fire and used teargas<\/A> against demonstrators protesting the army&#x2019;s alleged use of Kashmiri civilians as a human shield in a skirmish with militants:<\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>Local residents say the civilians who died were captured by troops from a village near Bandipora on Friday.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>They say the troops used them as human shields during an operation against militants near the village of Chhattibanbi&#x2026;.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>More than 15,000 people marched from Chhattibanbi to the main town, carrying the bodies.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<P><FONT face=\"Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,Sans-Serif\" size=\"2\"><EM>Reduced to Ashes: The Insurgency and Human Rights in Punjab<\/EM> recounts a <A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/NiranjanSingh\">similar incident<\/A> when Indian security forces used eight residents of the village Behla as a human shield in an operation against Sikh militants.<\/P><\/FONT><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Indian-administered Kashmir opened fire and used teargas against demonstrators protesting the army&#x2019;s alleged use of Kashmiri civilians as a human shield in a skirmish with militants: Local residents say the civilians who died were captured by troops from a village near Bandipora on Friday. They say the troops used them as human shields [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}