{"id":7889,"date":"2025-09-24T19:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/five-killed-in-indian-occupied-ladakh-as-protesters-demand-autonomy\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T19:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T19:40:56","slug":"five-killed-in-indian-occupied-ladakh-as-protesters-demand-autonomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/five-killed-in-indian-occupied-ladakh-as-protesters-demand-autonomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Five killed in Indian-occupied Ladakh as protesters demand autonomy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A police vehicle torched by the demonstrators is pictured along a street near the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Leh on September 24, 2025. — AFP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

Clashes between police and demonstrators in Indian-occupied Ladakh on Wednesday left five people dead and dozens more injured during protests calling for statehood in the Himalayan region.<\/p>\n

In the main city of Leh, demonstrators torched a police vehicle and the offices of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party, while officers fired tear gas and used batons to disperse crowds, police said.<\/p>\n

“Five deaths were reported after the protests,” a police officer in Leh told AFP<\/em>, on condition of anonymity as he was not authorised to speak to journalists. “The number of injured is in the dozens.”<\/p>\n

Another police officer, Regzin Sangdup, told AFP<\/em> that “several people, including some policemen, were injured.”<\/p>\n

Authorities later imposed restrictions on gatherings, banning assemblies of more than four people.<\/p>\n

The sparsely populated, high-altitude desert region, home to some 300,000 people, borders both China and Pakistan.<\/p>\n

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Around half of Ladakh’s residents are Muslim and about 40% are Buddhist.<\/p>\n

It is classed as a “Union Territory” — meaning that while it elects lawmakers to the national parliament, it is governed directly by New Delhi.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s demonstrations were organised in solidarity with prominent activist Sonam Wangchuk, who has been on hunger strike for two weeks.<\/p>\n

He is demanding either full statehood for Ladakh or constitutional protections for its tribal communities, land and fragile environment.<\/p>\n

“Social unrest arises when you keep young people unemployed and deprive them of their democratic rights,” Wangchuk said, in a statement posted on social media.<\/p>\n

He appealed to people to avoid violence “whatever happens”.<\/p>\n

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India’s army maintains a large presence in Ladakh, which includes disputed border areas with China.<\/p>\n

Troops from the two countries clashed there in 2020, leaving at least 20 Indian and four Chinese soldiers dead.<\/p>\n

Modi’s government split Ladakh off from Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir in 2019, imposing direct rule on both.<\/p>\n

New Delhi has yet to fulfil its promise to include Ladakh in the “Sixth Schedule” of India’s constitution, which allows people to make their own laws and policies.<\/p>\n

“There is no platform for democracy here today,” Wangchuk said. “Even the Sixth Schedule, which was promised and declared, has not been implemented.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A police vehicle torched by the demonstrators is pictured along a street near the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) office in Leh on September 24, 2025. — AFP Clashes between police and demonstrators in Indian-occupied Ladakh on Wednesday left five people dead and dozens more injured during protests calling for statehood in the Himalayan region. In…<\/p>\n

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