Hindu bank manager shot dead in Indian Kashmir; protests erupt

Record ID: 1675272

  • Title: Hindu bank manager shot dead in Indian Kashmir; protests erupt
  • Date: 2nd June 2022
  • Summary: KULGAM, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA (JUNE 02, 2022) (ANI - No use India) ARMED SECURITY PERSONNEL STANDING ON GUARD BANK BUILDING, WHERE BANK MANAGER WAS SHOT DEAD ALLEGEDLY BY MILITANTS VARIOUS OF ARMED POLICEMEN STANDING ON GUARD PARKED SECURITY VEHICLES ARMED SECURITY PERSONNEL STANDING ON GUARD PARKED SECURITY AND OTHER VEHICLES ARMED POLICEMAN STANDING ON GATE OUTSIDE BANK SIGNBOARD READING (English): "STATE BANK OF INDIA"/ARMED POLICEMAN STANDING ON GUARD AS OTHER SECURITY PERSONNEL WALK JAMMU, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA (JUNE 02, 2022) (ANI - No use India) (SOUNDBITE) (Urdu) HINDU KASHMIRI PANDIT LEADER, RAKESH KOUL, SAYING: "I feel that all this is a drama of secularism, 'Kashmiriyat' (harmony between Hindus and Muslims in Kashmir), and brotherhood as I cannot see any of these. The killings that are taking place are not tolerable at all. We have been seeing that in this one to one and half months, the killings have become very rampant and the targeted killings are aimed towards either only one community or security forces." VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WITH BANNERS AND POSTERS RAISING SLOGANS PROTESTERS STANDING PROTESTERS RAISING SLOGANS AS ONE OF THEM STANDS HOLDING A PICTURE OF A TEACHER RECENTLY KILLED BY ALLEGED MILITANTS PROTESTERS RAISING SLOGANS (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) PROTESTING TEACHER, RAMESH CHAND, SAYING: "No one is safe and that is why they (Hindus) should be transferred from there (Kashmir) and shifted to their home districts. We should be asked to serve from there (our home districts) as we have come here to work. We have a pen (as our weapon) and we cannot fight people with guns," SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA (JUNE 02, 2022) (ANI - No use India) PROTESTERS GATHERED AT LAL CHOWK AREA PROTESTERS WITH PLACARDS SITTING VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS RAISING SLOGANS PLACARD READING (English): "STOP VIOLENCE WE LOVE PEACE IN KASHMIR, EVERY MUSLIM HAVE RIGHT TO PROTECT MINORITIES IN KASHMIR" (SOUNDBITE) (Hindi) PROTESTER, MOHAMMAD AARIF, SAYING: "Every day innocent killings are taking place and every day people are dying. The administration is not taking concrete steps. This is the failure of administration that a common man is dying here." JAMMU, JAMMU AND KASHMIR, INDIA (JUNE 02, 2022) (ANI - No use India) VARIOUS OF PROTESTERS WITH FLAGS OF INDIA AND PAKISTAN RAISING SLOGANS AS THEY WALK PROTESTER STANDING ON FLAG OF PAKISTAN/PROTESTER HITTING FLAG WITH SLIPPER FLAG BEING BURNT/ FLAG BURNING CHITTORGARH, RAJASTHAN, INDIA (JUNE 02, 2022) (ANI - No use India) INDIA'S RULING BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY RAJASTHAN STATE PRESIDENT, SATISH POONIA MEETING THE FAMILY OF THE BANK MANAGER AND PAYING TRIBUTE POONIA SITTING WITH THE FAMILY OF THE BANK MANAGER
  • Embargoed: 16th June 2022 12:08
  • Keywords: Hindu Kashmiri Pandit Hindus India Jammu and Kashmir Kulgam Muslims bank manager killing militants minority security targeted killings
  • Location: KULGAM, JAMMU, SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR/CHITTORGARH, RAJASTHAN, INDIA
  • City: KULGAM, JAMMU, SRINAGAR, JAMMU AND KASHMIR/CHITTORGARH, RAJASTHAN, INDIA
  • Country: India
  • Topics: Asia / Pacific,Conflicts/War/Peace,Civil Unrest
  • Reuters ID: LVA001GEQMRTB
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: A bank manager based in India's northern Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir federal territory was shot dead by alleged militants on Thursday (May 02), the latest in a spate of targeted killings of Hindus and Muslims.
    The victim, identified as Vijay Kumar from northwestern Rajasthan state was killed while he was at work in the bank when a suspected militant entered the bank premises and opened fire at him, killing him on the spot, said media reports.
    Angered by the frequent killings, protests erupted in Srinagar and Jammu cities, where demonstrators including, teachers carrying posters, banners, and placards came out on the streets condemning the killings and demanding a safe environment for the minorities living in the region.
    "No one is safe and that is why they (Hindus) should be transferred from there (Kashmir) and shifted to their home districts. We should be asked to serve from there (our home districts) as we have come here to work. We have a pen (as our weapon) and we cannot fight people with guns," said a protesting teacher, Ramesh Chand.
    More than 100 Hindu families have fled Kashmir as panic has spread after the killings. A schoolteacher and a television artist were also shot dead in less than a week.
    India and its arch-rival Pakistan both claim Jammu and Kashmir - which New Delhi reorganised into two federally administered territories in 2019 - in full but each only controls one part of the Himalayan region.
    Some 250,000 Kashmiri Pandits left the Kashmir valley because of a sharp rise in the killings of Hindus and attacks on their homes at the start of a rebellion by Muslim militants in 1989.
    Last month, a Kashmiri Pandit working for the local government was shot dead inside his office, leading to protests by other employees from the minority community who demanded re-location to safer areas outside the Kashmir valley.
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