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DATE=2/5/2000
TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT
TITLE=INDIA/KASHMIR (L-ONLY)
NUMBER=2-258851
BYLINE=ANJANA PASRICHA
DATELINE=NEW DELHI
CONTENT=
VOICED AT:
INTRO:  Indian authorities say three Kashmiri Hindus 
were killed when Muslim militants attacked a village 
in Kashmir.  Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi 
that the head of Indian Kashmir, Farooq Abdullah, now 
warns of what he calls a "limited war" with Pakistan.
TEXT:  Police say two men and an eight-year-old girl 
were killed when separatist militants surrounded the 
village of Telwani and opened fire.  The village is 
260 kilometers north of Jammu, the winter capital of 
Kashmir.
Police say six Hindu families living in the village 
were targets of the attack.  The victims died in the 
crossfire when police and the militants fought it out 
in a gun battle.
This marked the second case of violence reported from 
strife-torn Kashmir in the last two days.
Police say militants also blew up a paramilitary 
ambulance in Srinagar with a landmine on Friday.  Two 
civilians were killed and four soldiers were wounded.
More than a dozen militant groups have been fighting a 
separatist war in Indian Kashmir since 1989.  The 
region has witnessed an upsurge in militant violence 
in the last six months, since India fought a six-week 
battle to evict Pakistan-backed Muslim guerrillas who 
had captured high Kashmiri mountain peaks.
India is blaming Pakistan for the increased violence.  
In an interview (with the Reuters news agency) 
Saturday, the chief minister of the state, Farooq 
Abdullah, said there could be what he called "limited 
war" with Pakistan if it continued to support the 
separatist revolt in the region.  He said New Delhi 
could be pushed into waging war against Pakistan to 
bring a decisive end to the Kashmir insurgency.
/// OPT ///  Mr. Abdullah heads a regional party that 
is part of the ruling Bharatiya Janata party-led 
national coalition government.  /// END OPT ///
New Delhi accuses Islamabad of sponsoring the 
insurgency by training and arming Muslim militants.  
Pakistan denies the charge, saying it gives the 
separatists only moral and diplomatic support.
The two hostile neighbors have fought two wars over 
the Himalayan region that both claim. (Signed)
NEB/AP/ALW/JP
05-Feb-2000 07:54 AM EDT (05-Feb-2000 1254 UTC)
NNNN
Source: Voice of America
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