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Indian Elections in Jammu & Kashmir
Report 6

Srinagar,
September 13:

The Indian forces baton charged and resorted to firing at the Hurriyat
Conference anti-polls team, led by Muhammad Yaseen Malik and comprising
Ghulam Nabi Sumji, Advocate Bashir Ahmed Butt and Sheikh Ali Muhammad, as soon as it reached Bejbehara, injuring a large number of people. The troops
manhandled Muhammad Yaseen Malik and his two dozen companions and tore their clothes. They were then arrested and put in police lockup. Instantaneously
life came to standstill in Bejbehara and strike was observed in protest
against the inhuman treatment of the Hurriyat leaders. Thousand of people
took out a procession, chanting slogans against India and in favor of Azadi.
The Chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, Syed Ali Shah Gilani,
who, along with almost 20 Hurriyat leaders, had been arrested a week ago
when he was carrying on anti-polls campaign in Kupwara, has been shifted
from Uri Baramula to Nageen police station lock up in Srinagar under tight
security. Other prominent Hurriyat leaders, Muhammad Ashraf Sehari, Ghulam
Ahmed Gulzar, Abdul Ahad Waza, Musarrat Alam and Ghulam Muhammad Sinkara are still in police custody.
The president of Jammu and Kashmir Democratic Front, Pandit Bhoshan Bazaz
has lodged a strong protest against the continued detention of All Parties
Hurriyat Conference leaders and termed it the result of the Indian Rulers'
frustration at the Kashmiris' complete boycott of elections to the Lok
Sabah. A spokesman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference while condemning
the arrest and continued detention of the Hurriyat leaders, said that the
anti-polls campaign will not be affected by such ruthless measures adopted
by the Indian rulers.
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Date: 11/09/99

By CHRISTOPHER KREMMER, Herald correspondent in New Delhi

India's elections - the third in just over three years - have been
called the polls nobody wants, and nowhere is it truer than in the
disputed State of Kashmir.

When people in the Kashmir Valley voted last Sunday, about one in five
polling booths recorded a zero voter turnout.

Today, voters in parts of the State outside the Valley get their chance,
but the spectre of violence and a boycott call by separatists
overshadows the polls.

The only vote separatists are interested in is a United
Nations-supervised plebiscite on self determination in India's only
Muslim-majority State. The scenes of violence from East Timor after
completing a similar exercise have not deterred them.

Despite a 10-year insurgency in which at least 25,000 people have died,
New Delhi says a vote in state and national elections is
all they will get.

That has led to the boycott call by the umbrella body representing those
in favour of independence or accession to neighbouring
Pakistan, the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC). At 182 polling
booths in the Srinagar constituency last Sunday, not a single
vote was recorded, leaving 910 officials to seal empty ballot boxes. Not
even party workers cast ballots.

But the massive stay-away owed as much to fear of revenge attacks by
separatists against anyone who defied the boycott, as it
did to support for the separatist cause.

On Tuesday, the extremists lent weight to such fears, triggering a land
mine explosion in Anantnag constituency which killed the
candidate of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Mr Ghulam Hyder
Noorani, and led to the poll there being abandoned. On
Thursday, a grenade was thrown at another BJP vehicle in Doda Town, 180
kilometres from the State capital, Jammu. Eleven
people were injured.

India has accused Pakistan of arming and training more than 1,000
separatist militants who have infiltrated the State this year.
Tensions between the neighbours sparked a two-month undeclared war in
the Kargil region in May, which left more than 1,000
soldiers killed.

"Pakistan does not want elections in Kashmir and hence it is creating
hurdles," India's caretaker Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari
Vajpayee, told an election rally on Thursday.

This week the US State Department complimented India on going ahead with
polls in Kashmir under such trying circumstances,
and rejected comparisons with East Timor.

That prompted a bitter response from Pakistan, which pointed out that
India is a party to the 1948 UN resolution which promised
a plebiscite for Kashmir. "To deny the Kashmiris the same rights as the
East Timorese is a travesty of democratic rights and
ideals," said the Foreign Ministry spokesman in Islamabad, Mr Tariq
Altaf.

Voting today takes place in Udhampur and Jammu constituencies, where
more than 3,000 polling booths have been declared
security risks. More than 150 people have been killed in political
violence in the Jammu region in the past three months, and
posters in the area warn people against voting.

More than 500,000 Indian troops are deployed for internal security
duties in Kashmir, but the elaborate security arrangements can
work both ways. Last week, people in the Kashmir Valley complained of
being forced to vote by gun-toting Indian troops.

In an election which has generally evoked little enthusiasm, Kashmiris
caught in the cross fire of separatist and military violence are
the least enthusiastic voters of all.
 

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