India: murder of migrant workers in Kashmir sows fear of new conflagration

Panicked, many Indian migrants decided to leave Kashmir and return to their hometowns after several murders of workers from other states.

Here in the train station in the capital Srinagar on October 18, 2021 © Danish Ismail, Reuters

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At least four civilians were murdered in the Indian region of Kashmir between Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 October.

Modest workers targeted by separatists because they come from outside this state whose management has been forcibly taken over by New Delhi.

The deaths caused some panic in Kashmir, as well as in the regions of origin of the workers.

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With our correspondent in New Delhi,

In southern Kashmir, men armed with firearms arrived on Sunday at a residence of contract workers and shot dead two men.

The day before, it was in the local capital, Srinagar, and in another southern city that a worker and a street vendor were murdered.

Each time, the murderers targeted workers who came from outside the state, in this case from the regions of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh.

In two weeks, 11 non-Kashmiri civilians were killed.

"Front of the Resistance"

The first attacks were claimed by

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This is happening in a context where the Hindu nationalist government, which

in 2019, seeks to facilitate the installation of non-Kashmiri populations, and particularly Hindus,

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