Police and soldiers clash with demonstrators over banned march

(30 Apr 2010) SHOTLIST :
1. Various of protesters marching and chanting pro-freedom slogans
2. Wide of protesters running for cover as tear gas canister explodes
3. Wide of protesters pelting stones, police man chasing protesters and firing tear gas
4. Various of protesters hurling stones
5. Wide of paramilitary soldiers trying to shield themselves
6. Various of protesters throwing stones
7. Various of police man firing tear gas
8. Wide of tear gas canister exploding, protester throwing back exploded canister
9. Wide of police men chasing protesters
10. Low angle of stones scattered on road with paramilitary soldiers standing guard
11. Wide of relatives surrounding the dead body of a civilian Shafiq Ahmed Sheikh who died of injuries after a stone hit his head
12. Protesters marching with poster of separatist leader Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and chanting pro freedom slogans
STORYLINE:
Police and paramilitary soldiers in Indian-administered Kashmir fired tear gas shells to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators on Friday.
The protest was triggered when permission was denied for a hardline separatist leader to march to the office of United Nations Military Observers Group for India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP).
The original march was planned as a protest against death sentences given to three members of the Jammu-Kashmir Islamic Front convicted in a 1996 bombing in New Delhi that killed 13 people and wounded 38 others.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani, leader of the hardline faction of the main separatist alliance All Parties Hurriyat Conference, has since been put under house arrest, Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency reported.
Police reported that one person was killed as protesters hurled stones at the security forces in Srinagar, the summer capital of India's Jammu-Kashmir state.
40-year-old Shafiq Ahmad Sheikh, who was travelling in a bus in the Batmaloo locality in Srinagar, suffered serious head injuries as a stone hit him, and died in hospital, PTI reported.
More than a dozen rebel groups have been fighting in Indian-administered Kashmir since 1989 for the Muslim-majority state's independence from predominantly Hindu India, or its merger with Pakistan.
More than 68-thousand people, mostly civilians, have been killed in the conflict.
Kashmir is split between the two rival neighbours of India and Pakistan, while both claim the entire territory.
They have fought two wars over Kashmir since their independence from Britain in 1947.

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