This is no surprise, why havent Yahoo made a mention that the ones who carried the attack were in fact muslims? Yahoo, you are afraid, dont be!
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Militants massacre 34 Hindus in Indian Kashmir
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Suspected Islamic militants have massacred 34 Hindus in Indian Kashmir in attacks aimed at wrecking peace talks between the government and moderate separatists.
Twenty-two unarmed villagers, mostly shepherds or their families, were lined up and gunned down in Thawa village in the southern district of Doda on Sunday night.
In the neighbouring district of Udhampur, 12 Hindus kidnapped Sunday by suspected rebels were shot dead. Four bodies were found Sunday and eight more Monday.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and a Muslim separatist leader condemned the sectarian massacres, the worst for six years in the state.
Survivors of the Thawa attack, which also injured eight people including a nine-year-old girl, described the terror.
"Ten to 12 militants dressed in army uniforms entered Thawa and told our chief to collect villagers for a meeting and when the people came the militants separated the group and shot nine at one location and 11 at another," said Sadiq Ahmed.
"They pumped bullet after bullet into the group of unarmed people."
Two more villagers later died from their wounds, Ahmed said, as both Hindus and Muslims staged a protest strike on Monday in Doda, which borders Pakistan.
The injured were flown by military helicopters to the Government Medical College in Jammu city, where most were still in shock.
"The gunmen started beating us. When I tried to prevent my husband getting killed, they opened fire killing many people on the spot," said 37-year-old Gilu Devi, tears rolling down her cheeks as she recalled her futile effort to save her husband.
Devi and her eight-year-old daughter were being treated in the hospital.
Others with bullet wounds were too shocked to speak, while some complained of inadequate security in the region.
"The massacre was a pre-planned attack and obviously it was an attempt to derail the upcoming talks," Inspector-General of Police S. P. Vaid said in Kashmir's winter capital of Jammu.
Singh was scheduled to hold a second round of direct talks with moderate leaders of the All-Party Hurriyat Conference -- a forum of some one dozen Islamic separatist groups -- in New Delhi Wednesday.
The two sides are also set to hold a second roundtable on May 25 in Srinagar, Kashmir's summer capital. All such meetings are opposed by militant separatists.
Singh condemned the attack in a statement issued by his office, saying that the "people of Kashmir have rejected and rebuffed terrorists repeatedly."
None of Kashmir's two dozen Islamist rebel groups claimed responsibility for the two attacks, the first massacre of Hindus in the remote districts since April 2004 when five pilgrims were slain in Pahalgam district.
The head of the Hurriyat also condemned the attack.
"We condemn the incident. It is an act of terror," said Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a leading Muslim cleric, calling for an impartial inquiry to "expose the killers."
The Press Trust of India quoted unidentified army officials as saying the Thawa massacre was carried out by guerrillas belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba, or Army of the Pious, which has been blamed for many major attacks in India.
The army said the killings were ordered by rebel leaders based in Pakistan, despite an ongoing peace process with India.
Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan but claimed in full by both. India insists that Islamic guerrilla training camps exist in the Pakistani zone despite an assurance from President Pervez Musharraf that they have been shut down.
Militants are accused of killing 353 Hindus and Sikhs in the past six years in Indian Kashmir, with 2000 being the bloodiest year when 116 non-Muslims were massacred in six separate attacks.
The worst massacre was on March 20, 2000, in southern Kashmir's Chattisinghpora village when suspected rebels killed 37 Sikhs as then-US president Bill Clinton began a visit to India.
Some 44,000 people have died in Indian Kashmir since 1989 when a revolt flared in the Muslim-majority region against New Delhi's rule.
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