Tens of thousands of Muslims waving green and black protest flags and chanting militant slogans marched to the United Nations offices in Indian Kashmir’s main city to press their demands that India give up its claim to the region.
Hundreds of trucks and buses overflowing with protesters some sitting on roofs and hanging out of windows made their way across the Himalayan region to Srinagar for Monday’s protest, which separatist leaders said was the largest in two months of unrest.The weeks of unrest, which has left at least 34 people dead, have reinvigorated the region’s decades-long separatist struggle, threatening to sever the ties between India and its only Muslim-majority state.
They have also unleashed pent-up tensions between Kashmir’s Muslims and Hindu minority, sparking fears that the troubles could spread to the rest of India, which has a history of religious violence.