{"id":39089,"date":"2021-11-20T20:27:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T11:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/20\/kashmir-deaths-human-shields-india-police"},"modified":"2021-11-20T20:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T11:27:34","slug":"kashmir-tensions-high-after-deaths-of-men-used-as-human-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39089","title":{"rendered":"Kashmir tensions high after deaths of men \u2018used as human shields\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian police say four men killed in shootout were militants but families say gunfight was staged and they were innocent civilians<\/p>\n<p>Tensions in the Indian state of Kashmir remain on a knife edge after a shootout by the Indian authorities this week left four people dead, with families alleging the gunfight was staged and that police used innocent civilians as a \u201chuman shield\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Police initially described the incident, which took place on Monday when officers raided a shopping complex, as a counter-insurgency operation in which two militants and their associates had been killed in a shootout.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/nov\/20\/kashmir-deaths-human-shields-india-police\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian police say four men killed in shootout were militants but families say gunfight was staged and they were innocent civiliansTensions in the Indian state of Kashmir remain on a knife edge after a shootout by the Indian authorities this week left f&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,432,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-kashmir","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2691"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39090,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39089\/revisions\/39090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}