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"IN 1993 A KEY INCIDENT CONCERNING THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT FORCES WAS THE BURNING OF LAL CHOWK, WHERE HUNDREDS OF SHOPS WERE DESTROYED AND MANY CIVILIANS WERE KILLED AND INJURED".

Preliminary Report of Internationals Commission of Jurists

(Geneva, Switzerland, April 1994) (Page 56)

"LAL CHOWK, THE COMMERCIAL CENTRE OF THE CAPITAL OF SRINAGAR, IS A BURNED OUT ZONE OF ROOFLESS SKELETONS: 260 BUILDINGS AND SHOPS OF THE ANCIENT PLAZA HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. SINCE APRIL 10, MORE THAN 100 PEOPLE HAVE DIED".

(Time Magazine, April 26, 1993)

"THE BEST REPEATED IN SRINAGAR ON APRIL 10, WHAT IT DID IN THE MARKET TOWN OF SOPORE ON JANUARY 6 WITHIN A SPAN OF THREE MONTHS. THE 'ERRING' LOCALITIES AT BOTH PLACES WERE SET ON FIRE, FOLLOWED BY SHOTS AT RANDOM AT THE ESCAPEES. THE DEATH TOLL WAS FIVE IN SRINAGAR AND 44 IN SOPORE".

(Kuldip Nayar)

(The sentinel 4 Wahati, June 9, 1993.




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