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INDIA HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT 2005 Jammu and Kashmir<br />
22 persons, which included five women<br />
and a doctor. 63 At around 3.30 pm 19 July<br />
2004, at least four persons died and 38<br />
others injured in an explosion allegedly<br />
caused by members of an armed<br />
opposition group at a public meeting at<br />
Kapran-Dooru in Anantnag district. 64 On<br />
15 August 2004, some school children<br />
were injured when members of the armed<br />
opposition groups allegedly fired a rifle<br />
grenade to target an Independence Day<br />
function at government-run higher<br />
secondary school in Baramulla district. 65<br />
In 2004, 62 political activists<br />
belonging to several mainstream parties<br />
were killed by the AOGs. The ruling<br />
Peoples Democratic Party was the worst<br />
affected with the death of 35 party<br />
workers. 66 On 16 February 2004, armed<br />
cadres allegedly belonging to Save<br />
Kashmir Movement gunned down a PDP<br />
leader Ghulam Mohammad Dar outside<br />
his house at Hyderpora. 67 On the same day,<br />
Ali Muhammad Bhat, Block President of<br />
PDP <strong>for</strong> Beerwah pocket was killed at his<br />
house at Aripanthan village in Budgam<br />
district. 68 On the night of 18 December<br />
2004, 70-year-old Abdul Gani Wani, an<br />
activist of the PDP at Singhur village<br />
under Damhal Hanji Pora in Anantnag<br />
district was shot dead. 69<br />
Five Congress Party activists were<br />
<strong>report</strong>edly killed by the armed opposition<br />
groups. 70 On 29 September 2004, AOGs<br />
allegedly shot dead Mohammad Yusuf<br />
Bhat, block secretary of the Congress, and<br />
his personal security officer at Chini<br />
Chowk near the shrine of Reshi Mohalla in<br />
94<br />
Anantnag district. 71 At around 10 pm on 8<br />
November 2004, cadres of armed<br />
opposition group allegedly attacked the<br />
house of a local Congress leader<br />
Jalaluddin Sheikh in Wagroo-Chattergul in<br />
Budgam district and shot him and his<br />
bodyguard dead. 72<br />
The opposition National Conference<br />
lost 16 activists. 73 On 28 April 2004,<br />
Shaadi Lal and Ghulam Nabi were killed<br />
and 60 were <strong>report</strong>edly injured when the<br />
armed opposition group attacked an<br />
election rally of the National Conference<br />
candidate, Khalid Najeeb Surawardhy at<br />
Bagwa village in Doda district. 74 At around<br />
2.45 pm on 21 October 2004, members of<br />
armed opposition groups gunned down<br />
senior National Conference leader and<br />
<strong>for</strong>mer minister of state <strong>for</strong> revenue Safdar<br />
Ali Beigh at Sarnal in Anantnag district. 75<br />
The members of the overground<br />
Kashmiri separatist political parties too<br />
were attacked by the armed opposition<br />
groups. In the evening of 29 May 2004,<br />
Hurriyat Conference leader Mirwaiz Umer<br />
Farooq’s uncle Maulvi Mushtaq Ahmed<br />
was allegedly shot by armed cadres<br />
belonging to Save Kashmir Movement<br />
while he was praying inside a Srinagar<br />
mosque. He succumbed to the injuries on 7<br />
June 2004. 76 At about 9 am on 30<br />
September 2004, the cadres of the Save<br />
Kashmir, Harket-i-Jehad Islami and<br />
Tehreek-Jehadi Islami outfits allegedly<br />
shot dead Jammu and Kashmir People’s<br />
Liberation League leader Mohammad<br />
Rafiq Shah in Chinkral Mohalla of<br />
Srinagar. 77
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