Buddhist students hold protest, demand deployment of Army at Zanskar

Excelsior Correspondent

JAMMU, Oct 28: Students of Zanskar town of district Kargil, where curfew had been imposed a few days ago after clashes between two communities, today held protests against alleged use of force during curfew.
Over 200 students under the banner of Zanskar Buddhist Association (ZBA) held protests against the Government for its alleged failure to handle the situation in the Buddhist-dominated town, where clashes between two communities had resulted in injuries to three persons including a senior official.
Raising slogans for peace, the students threatened to launch agitation to support their relatives in Zanskar.
“We don’t know about our families as they are being threatened and force has been used on them and we protest over it”, one of the students hailing from Zanskar said.
He demanded deployment of Army at Zanskar town, as police there seems to be hand in glove with the Muslim community, who always try to dominate Buddhist community.
Another student said that the region has 700 Muslim and around 12000 Buddhist but the Muslims has till date dominated the peace loving and innocent Buddhist of Zanskar and demanded to deploy Army in the region.
It is to mention that curfew was imposed in Zanskar town of Kargil district on October 24 after three people were injured in inter-community clashes.