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  • Archive for March, 1989

    Anti-Rushdie mobs battle police in Kashmir

    SRINAGAR, March 4 (1989): Muslims enraged over Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses" fought pitched battles with police in Kashmir on Saturday after the U.N. secretary-general called for an end to the controversy. Nearly 40 people were injured in street battles in various parts of Kashmir, where three people have been killed and several hundred injured since Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called on Moslems last month to kill Rushdie. Police fired in the air and used tear gas to...

    Posted 8873 days ago.

    Anti-Rushdie mobs battle police in Kashmir

    SRINAGAR, March 4 (1989): Muslims enraged over Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses" fought pitched battles with police in northern India on Saturday after the U.N. secretary-general called for an end to the controversy. Nearly 40 people were injured in street battles in various parts of Kashmir, where three people have been killed and several hundred injured since Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini called on Moslems last month to kill Rushdie. Police fired in the air and used tear gas to disperse a crowd...

    Posted 8873 days ago.

    Forty injured in third day of Rushdie protest in Kashmir

    SRINAGAR, March 1 (1989): At least 40 people were injured on Wednesday in north India's Kashmir region in the third straight day of protests against the novel "The Satanic Verses". Police in the regional capital Srinagar opened fire after they were attacked with rocks and petrol bombs, a police statement said. Two people have died in predominantly Moslem Kashmir in protests against Indian-born Salman Rushdie's controversial novel which many Moslems regard as blasphemous. Twenty people have died in India and...

    Posted 8876 days ago.