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Generational Dynamics Web Log for 30-Jun-2010
30-Jun-10 News -- Riots spread across India's Kashmir region

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30-Jun-10 News -- Riots spread across India's Kashmir region

Protestors march through Athens, Greece, during 24 hour strike

Thousands riot across India's Kashmir after police kill unarmed protestors

Indian subcontinent, showing the disputed regions of Kashmir and Jammu.

Indian subcontinent, showing the disputed regions of Kashmir and Jammu.

Riots and unrest are spreading across the Muslim majority region of Indian-controlled Kashmir, in the wake of violence where Indian security forces fired on unarmed Muslim / separatist protestors, killing 8 over the past three weeks, according to AFP.

Kashmir and Jammu were a major site of the extremely bloody war between Hindus and Muslims after Partition in 1947 (when the India subcontinent was partitioned into Pakistan and India). After the war, Kashmir and Jammu were split into Pakistani-controlled and India-controlled regions, separated by a "line of control" (LoC). Since then, Pakistan and India have fought two non-crisis wars over the region, and it's been a continuing source of unrest, terrorist attacks, and violence.

Many of the Sunni Muslim terrorist extremists in Pakistan were originally motivated by the situation in Kashmir, but in recent years their focus has shifted to Afghanistan, largely because of the American and Nato presence there. But Kashmir has always been an emotional driver for the Taliban and other terrorist groups.

The most recent violence in Indian-controlled Kashmir came on Wednesday, according to Indian Express. According to the article, police fired at protesters in the morning, injuring one person. This lead to further protests and street battles that lasted for hours. Then, late in the afternoon, the police opened indicriminate fire at both protesters and bystanders, killing three more people.

This situation is going to further inflame the Muslim population, and also attract more Islamist terrorists from Afghanistan, Pakistan and central Asia into the Kashmir region.

From the point of view of Generational Dynamics, India and Pakistan are headed for a major new war, re-fighting the war between Hindus and Muslims of 1947-48. Both countries have nuclear weapons. Pakistan will be supported by China, and India will be supported by the US and Russia, so this war will quickly spiral into world war.

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