December 11, 2002	Wednesday	Shawwal 6, 1423

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SRINAGAR, Dec 10: Anti-India groups held protest marches on Tuesday against human rights violations by Indian troops in occupied Kashmir, and a leading rights activist set himself on fire.

Ahsan Untoo, chairman of the held state’s Human Rights Forum, doused himself in kerosene and set fire to himself in a busy area of Srinagar on the occasion of International Human Rights Day.

Police swiftly put out the flames and whisked Untoo to a nearby police station.

“Untoo suffered minor burns on his left arm and shoulder,” a police official said, adding medical treatment was being given at the police station.—AFP