(6 Feb 2007)
1. Various of protestors pelting stones towards police
2. Various of police firing tear gas towards protesters
3. Wide of police charging towards protestors
4. Mid of paramilitary soldiers detaining a protestor
5. Mid of relatives of detained man crying and running after police as they take the man away
6. Wide of demonstration by Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF)
7. Mid of protestors chanting anti-India slogans
8. Mid of women chanting (Kashmiri): "We want freedom!"
9. Various of JKLF leader Yasin Malik (centre, dressed in black, black hair and beard) sitting during hunger strike
10. Wide of hunger strike
11. Various of streets of Srinagar
STORYLINE :
Police fired tear gas and used batons to control hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators in Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday who were protesting alleged slayings of civilians by security forces, an official said.
Twelve people were detained and a police driver was injured by a stone thrown by the protesters, said a senior police official.
Five bodies have been exhumed in the past week by government officials in different parts of Indian-controlled Kashmir in a rare investigation into the alleged killing of civilians by security forces.
Six police officers have been accused of killing innocent people and then claiming they were militants to receive rewards.
Tuesday's protest was called by Yasin Malik, chairman of the pro-independence Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF).
Hundreds of supporters marched through the heart of the city of Srinagar chanting "Tyrants leave Kashmir" and "We want freedom!"
Shops and businesses were closed and public transport came to a halt in the capital.
Malik also began a three-day hunger strike to protest against the civilian killings.
Civilians in the troubled Himalayan region often accuse security forces of harassment and of killing innocent people and passing them off as rebels to claim rewards.
Kashmir is split between India and Pakistan.
Both claim the Muslim-majority region in its entirety and have fought two wars over it, but have held peace talks since 2004.
Dozens of separatist groups have been fighting for the independence of the portion controlled by predominantly Hindu India, or its merger with Islamic Pakistan.
India has an estimated 700-thousand soldiers in Kashmir, fighting nearly a dozen rebel groups since 1989.
In many areas, the region has the feel of an occupied country, with soldiers in full combat gear patrolling streets and frisking civilians.
More than 68-thousand people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the conflict since 1989.
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