then and now -

a Kashmiri friend reports:

I read in a press release i think from JKCSS that there have been more than 20 incidents wherein the paramilitary forces have attacked amubulances carrying injured victims of the firings. Perhaps we could also think about the role of VDCs in connivance with local Hindu extremist groups and police and army in engineering attacks on Muslim populations. Reports taht arms have been freely distributed by RSS and BJP in Jammu area in order to prepare for Gujrat style massacres.
Indian newsreporters with links to the security agencies have started filing reports about Muslims threatening Hindu to leave Kashmir - [a little report in Tribune], also deliberate attempts by certain groups and media to link the mass uprising as Islamist terror, etc to delegitimise the public demonstrations. According to my information, the police and the paramilitary forces have now started activating Ikhwan in the guise of protestors to fire upon military forces to provide alibi for future mass murder. Yesterday, in Pampore civilians caught hold of two alleged 'agents' of intelligence who were to fire upon protestors or perhaps the army to provoke blood bath. Having been an eyewitness to such a large scale massacre on 22 October 1992 in Bijbehara where the BSF killed more than 40 innocent protestors i am seriously very worried. A quarter of my very close friends or neighbours perished in that atrocity while i remained miraclously safe. But I have very painful and fresh memories fo that brutal incident. Later, the BSF tried its best to claim that they were fired at first amongst the mob which they could not prove as i reported about the whole incident in the newspapers that time.