INDIA KASHMIR LAND PROTEST 3

INDIA KASHMIR LAND PROTEST, originally uploaded by jaipalsingh.

Hungry mob loots government ration from a vehicle as Amarnath land dispute enter 54th day and essential supply remain disrupted in the Northern Indian city of Jammu, the winter capital of Kashmir on 21 August 2008. The crisis in Jammu began in June with a dispute over land near a Hindu shrine. Muslims held protests complaining that a state government plan to transfer 99 acres (40 hectares) land to a Hindu trust to build facilities for pilgrims near the shrine was actually a settlement plan meant to alter the religious balance in the region.