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After seven Hindus were killed in early January in two back-to-back attacks in Dhangri village in disputed Kashmir, former Indian army soldier Satish Kumar described his sleepy mountainous village as an “abode of fear.”

Days after seven Hindus were killed in a village in disputed Kashmir, hundreds of residents staged protests across the region's Hindu-dominated areas

<div class="at-above-post addthis_tool" data-url="https://www.metro.us/india-revives-civil-militia-after-hindu-killings-in-kashmir/"></div>DHANGRI, India (AP) — After seven Hindus were killed in early January in two back-to-back attacks in Dhangri village in disputed Kashmir, former Indian army soldier Satish Kumar described his sleepy mountainous village as an “abode of fear.” Days after the deadly violence in the village in frontier Rajouri district, where...

Days after seven Hindus were killed in a village in disputed Kashmir, hundreds of residents staged protests across the regions Hindu-dominated areas. In response, Indian authorities revived a government-sponsored militia and began rearming and training villagers. The militia, officially called the “Village Defense Group,” was initially formed in the 1990s as the first line of defense against anti-India insurgents in remote villages that government forces could not reach quickly. It was large...

The Indian government is rearming and training villagers to revive a civil militia after seven Hindus were killed in Kashmir, a disputed region between India and Pakistan.

Village militias were first formed at the height of the militancy in the mid-1990s but were subsequently disbanded.

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