Watch Video | Sopore shuts to remember 1993 massacre victims
Sopore: A complete shutdown is being observed on Sunday in Sopore town of north Kashmir’s Baramulla district to mark the 26th anniversary of the 1993 massacre.
All shops and business establishments are closed, while traffic off the roads in the town.
Eyewitness said that Police and paramilitary forces were deployed in the town to prevent any protest in the town.
Sopore shuts to mark 26th anniversary of 1993 massacre
#WATCH | Civil society Sopore stage protest at main chowk on the eve 6th January 1993 Sopore massacre.Sopore shuts to mark 26th anniversary of 1993 massacreAccording to human rights groups, at least 57 people were shot dead by troopers of 94 BN Border Security Force (BSF) on January 6, 1993.Soon after the massacre, they said, the troopers indulged in arson and set ablaze 400 shops and 75 residential houses from main chowk to tehsil office Sopore.Members of the civil society and traders gathered at the martyrs' graveyard and offered special prayers for the slain.
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On 6 January in 1993 at least 57 civilians were killed and hundreds of shops and residential houses were razed to ground by personnel of Border Security Forces after its men were attacked by militants in the town.
Earlier, Hurriyat Conference (G) chairman Syed Ali Geelani and the chairman of Tehreek-e-Hurriyat Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai paid glowing tributes to the victims of Sopore massacre on its 26th anniversary.
Joint Resistance Leadership had called for complete shutdown in Sopore today and appealed people to participate in Fateh-a- Khawani for the victims. Meanwhil, authorities suspended train services from Baramulla to Srinagar as a precautionary measure.
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