After two years of wary peace, Kashmir is under siege again. This week the authorities banned newspapers, blocked television and the internet, and imposed a curfew in Srinagar, the summer capital of Jammu and Kashmir, and beyond. Police battled with protesting youths, three of whom died. It was all sadly predictable after the hanging on February 9th of a Kashmiri, Af-zal Guru, in Delhi. His family was officially told by post fully two days later, and so far has been refused his body. Convicted for his part in a terrorist attack in 2001 on India's parliament, Mr Guru had been on death row for years. Recently, politicians grew anxious to see him hanged.
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