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Kashmir: Faces of conflict

Last updated on: August 25, 2010 11:55 IST

Image: A scene from a Kashmiri street
Photographs: Fayaz Kabli/Reuters
For over two months the Kashmir valley has simmered with discontent against the government as youth have thronged the streets demanding azaadi.

Some human images from the conflict zone.

A Kashmiri man pleads before a Rapid Action Force trooper to release his son detained for being a suspected stone-thrower during a protest in Srinagar on August 16.

The two-month-old protests, the angriest since a separatist revolt against New Delhi broke out in Kashmir in 1989, have so far killed 62 people and been blamed on the security forces.

The latest violence started with the death of a teenage student hit by a tear gas shell in early June.

Faces of conflict

Image: Scene from a Srinagar street
Photographs: Danish Ismail/Reuters
A policeman kicks a sandal as Kashmiri women look on during a protest in Srinagar.

Faces of conflict

Image: A scene during curfew in Srinagar
Photographs: Reinhard Krause/Reuters
Children look out of a window of their home during a curfew in Srinagar on August 9.

When it is curfew time, many of Srinagar's streets lie deserted aside from stray dogs.

Faces of conflict

Image: A Jammu and Kashmir policeman threatens demonstrators
Photographs: Fayaz Kabli/Reuters
A Jammu and Kashmir policeman aims his gun at protesters on the outskirts of Srinagar on August 23.

Faces of conflict

Image: Weeping for someone lost
Photographs: Danish Ismail/Reuters
A relative of a Kashmiri man, Shabir Ahmad, weeps from the window of an ambulance after Ahmad's death in a hospital in Srinagar on August 5.

Ahmad was shot at by police during a protest in Pulwama, south of Srinagar.