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Army deployed in Jammu to quell Sikh unrest

100 injured as mourners turn violent
JAMMU. India. Mar 23: Army troops were called out in tl>c Kashmiri winter capital Jammu Thursday as police fought running battles with thousands of Sikh youths protesting against a massacre of Sikh villagers, reports AFP.
Police had fired more than 100 tear gas shells to try to disperse around 10,000 demonstrators -- some of them armed with swords -- who tried to march on the governor's house, witnesses said.
Several hundred police, wielding bamboo canes, clashed violently with the protestors who later attacked Muslim businesses in the city's main commercial area, damaging around two dozen shops.
"We were deployed at the request of the state government," said Colonel Gulshan Kumar from the army headquarters In Jammu.
"Our troops have been positioned at key Intersections and will remain there as long as necessary."
The protest was in defiance of a round-the-clock curfew Imposed after Monday night's massacre to avoid Sikh revenge attacks against Muslims.
"Blood for blood" shouted some of the 20,000 Sikhs, brandishing iron bars, ceremonial swords and sticks above their turbaned heads as they marched 10 kilometres (six miles) to the seat of Jammu-Kashmir's state government. They demanded revenge on Pakistan, apprehension of the killers, and resignation of the government for not protecting
It was the third day members of the religious minority had defied curfew orders to protest the killings of 40 Sikh men in a massacre blamed on Pakistan -based militants trying to separate Jammu-Kashmir from India.
The curfew was Imposed Tuesday because authorities feared religious clashes. Many Muslims live on the periphery of Jammu, which Is 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the Pakistan border.
During a 10-year Insurgency, more than 25.000 people have died and hundreds of thousands of Hindus driven from their homes. But it was the first time Sikhs had been targeted.
The two main militant groups, and Pakistan's government. have denied involvement in Monday's killings in Chat! Singhpura village, and accused India's security force of committing the murders to defame the separatist movement during Clinton's visit.
Clinton was visiting tourist sites and a village In western India Thursday.
Pakistan and India have fought two wars over Jammu-KasTimir. the only Muslim majority state in Hindu majority India.
At first, police allowed thousands of Sikh men an women, on foot and piled In trucks, to move toward the city center. "We are allowing them to mourn and take out their anguish.' Police Inspector-General RV Raju said in the morning.
But when the procession reached the building that houses the state government
police used water cannon, tear gas and baton charges to break up the demonstration.
More than 100 police and demonstrators. including women, were injured, police and witnesses said.
Violent groups in the crowd beat up police officers and set vehicles afire. Police were unable to regain control of the streets as the crowd dispersed and continued marching in other areas of the city.
They converged at a Sikh temple to listen to addresses by religious and political leaders.
Tempers have been rising in Jammu since the news of the killings on Monday, when gunmen in Indian army uniforms speaking the Urdu language of Kashmir and Pakistan ordered people from their homes, lined up the men. and shot 40 of them to death
Pakistan's military ruler General Pervez Musharraf denied his government had anything to do with the massacre.
"I personally condemn It and we demand a probe at the highest level." Musharraf told reporters in Islamabad on Thursday. It is baseless that Pakistan is Involved. Pakistan wouldn't do it. It would be foolish of Pakistan to do such a thing and to create a division between Sikhs and Muslims."
Protests spread to other cities, including New Delhi, where an angry crowd chanted anti-Muslim slogans, raising fears of new religious rioting of the kind that has caused hundreds of thousands of deaths in India's 52-year history.