[ http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/02/25/asia/AS-Kashmir-Protest.php&ct=ga&cd=XR9SoK2A_LY&usg=AFQjCNF1el5kSjALfBg8C7_2n8WqjHwR0g ]Authorities impose restrictions in Indian Kashmir
International Herald Tribune - France
AP SRINAGAR, India: Government troops told residents in towns in Indian Kashmir to stay indoors Wednesday as they sought to prevent a massive public protest of the shooting deaths of two men in the Himalayan region.
An alliance of nonviolent separatist groups called for a protest in response to the Saturday killings, allegedly at the hands of the Indian army. The army has said the dead men were caught up in a crossfire with separatists. But angered local residents say they were civilians killed without provocation.
Businesses, public transport and shops were shuttered in the town of Srinagar, one of two main cities India's Jammu-Kashmir state.
The hugely popular All Parties Hurriyat Conference alliance had also called for a march to Sopore, a town close to the place where the men were allegedly shot to death.
Two key leaders of the alliance, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and Mohammed Ashraf Sehrai, were placed under house arrest, said a police officer on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.
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