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SRINAGAR, India-Tens of thousands of Muslims marched peacefully past the United Nations office in Indian Kashmir on Monday, calling on the international body to intervene over the disputed Himalayan region.Demonstrators shouting "Oh tyrants and oppressors leave our Kashmir" marched to police barricades within a few hundred meters of the U.N. Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) office in Srinagar, summer capital of Indian Kashmir.The organizers, Kashmir's main separatist All Parties Hurriyat (Freedom) Conference alliance, handed over a petition against Indian rule.A row over land allocated to Hindu pilgrims visiting a shrine in Kashmir has snowballed into full scale anti-India protests, uniting separatists and reviving calls for Kashmiri independence.Marches last week led to police killing at least 22 Muslim demonstrators, including a senior separatist leader, inflaming passions in one of the biggest separatist protests since a revolt against Indian rule broke out in 1989. UNMOGIP, one of the oldest U.N. missions, monitors a 1949 ceasefire line dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan.People in cars, buses, and motorcycles, some of them carrying banners which read "Indian forces go back" streamed through Srinagar as troops kept their distance."This is a march for freedom, and God willing, Indian occupation will end soon," Fayaz Ahmad Dar, a shopkeeper said.To read more go to:
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