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Article: Echoes of war. (Kashmir) (Asia)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- January 27, 1990
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Echoes of war
KASHMIR, in the foothills of the Himalayas and stunningly beautiful, used to be a source of pride to India. Jawaharlal Nehru boasted of his Kashmiri ancestry. Today the walls of Srinagar are daubed with uncharitable slogans: "Death to Nehru" (a bit late, but the drift is clear) and--the most frequent--"Indian dogs go back".
The summer capital of India's Jammu and Kashmir state and other towns of the Kashmir valley are under curfew. The people are prisoners in their own houses. They are the fortunate ones. At least 46 people have died, most of them shot by police trying to impose order.
The trouble is a legacy of the partition ...