Kashmiri Hindus protest killing of minority community member
ABC News
Hindus in Indian-controlled Kashmir have staged protests a day after assailants shot and killed a government employee from the minority community
SRINAGAR, India -- Hindus in Indian-controlled Kashmir staged protests on Friday a day after assailants shot and killed a government employee from the minority community.
Police blamed anti-India rebels for the killing of Rahul Bhat inside an office complex in Chadoora town on Thursday.
Scores of the region’s minority Hindus, locally known as Pandits, took to the streets in at least three places and blocked roads to demand that Bhat's killers be brought to justice. They chanted slogans against the government and India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, blaming them for inaction.
It was the first time that Pandits, an estimated 200,000 of whom fled Kashmir after an anti-India rebellion erupted in 1989, simultaneously organized street protests at several places in the Muslim-majority region.
