with the killings of hundreds of hindus, 30 years ago. but this minority has rarely been targeted since 2003. now it s facing a resurgent threat that s left hindu families terrified. these men work in government jobs and are demanding they be moved out of kashmir. sanjay kaul is a teacher at a public school. translation: if someone next to me takes their hands - out of their pockets, i feel they are going to pull out a gun to shoot me. we have stopped sending our children to school. and we hardly go out of our compound. insurgent groups say they re attacking minorities because the government is trying to change the religious make up of kashmir. the accusation stems from india s actions here three years ago.
the accusation stems from india s actions here three years ago. federal rule was imposed, outsiders allowed to buy land. leading to fears that india s hindu nationalist government wanted to alter the religious demographics of muslim majority kashmir. distrust against the state soared. since 2019, things have gotten a lot worse. there is no elected government here and large sections of the police and bureaucracy are now officers from outside of the region, which means amongst local people here, there is a strong feeling that their voice is being suppressed and they don t have any say in the decisions that are being made to govern them. there are also allegations of killings of muslim civilians by indian security forces. we travelled to shopian in southern kashmir.
earlier this year, as these students in kashmir gathered for morning prayers, their teacher was killed, metres away. they heard the gunshot and found her on the ground, bleeding from her head. the spot has been marked with stones. rajni bala was killed by anti india militants, police say. a mother and wife, a much loved history teacher. we re devastated. she was a wonderful person, adored notjust in the school but in our village, her colleague saima told us. it s believed rajni was targeted because she was a hindu, a minority in the country s only muslim majority region. teachers told us she feared for her life after a wave of killings of people from her community. translation: there had been a targeted killing of a hindu, .
targeting hindus, in india administered kashmir. amid a mounting military threat from north korea, the bbc gains rare access to the american and south korean joint operations centre designed to fend off any attack. welcome to the programme. it s ”pm in london and 6am here in singapore, where the country s prime minister has said singapore will end its ban on sex between men, but will take steps to defend the institution of marriage as a union between a man and a woman. prime minister lee hsein loong said singaporean society was becoming more accepting of gay people,
welcome to newsday reporting live from singapore. i m karishma vaswani. the headlines: singapore says it ll end its ban on sex between men but has made it a lot more difficult to legalise same sex marriage. i believe this is the right thing to do and something that most singaporeans will now accept. russia investigates a blast which killed the daughter of an ideological ally of president putin saying the attack was pre meditated. growing concern over a wave of killings targetting hindus in india administered kashmir. and the bbc gains rare access to the american and south koreanjoint operations centre designed to fend off any