A gathering storm
October 28, 2008 A massive deployment of the Indian security forces across Jammu and Kashmir on Monday to stop lawyers from forming a human chain as a mark of symbolic protest against the illegal occupation of their territory, exposed New Delhi's claim of commitment to the people's democratic rights. The reinforcement of troops came a day after a student was killed and 20 others were wounded when the police opened fire and lobbed teargas shells to disperse thousands of anti-India demonstrators in Srinagar. As Kashmiris observed a 'Black Day' on the call of the Jammu Kashmir Coordination Committee, business centres, schools and government offices remained closed across the Held Valley.
