YIPPA Yonhap International Press Photo Awards 2011
Silver Prize in the Enhancement of International Peace Story Category
Photographer: Farooq Khan

A Kashmiri Muslim looks for belongings in his house, which was partially damaged during a gunfight between militants and Indian soldiers at Khrew in the outskirts of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 08 January 2010. Two militants were killed in the gunfight, police said. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN

Kashmiri Muslim villagers comfort a wailing relative of Bilal Ahmmed Sheikh during his funeral in Singhpora on the outskirts of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 23 August 2010. Sheikh died Monday after succumbing to bullet injuries that he received during clashes with Indian troops on Aug 14. The death has stoked fresh tension in the region that has been witnessing anti-India protests relentlessly.The latest death brought to 63 the number of protesters and bystanders killed in police and paramilitary action on protesters in past two months in the mainly Muslim region. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN

Unidentified relatives shouts slogans from inside an ambulance carrying the body of Shabir Ahmed Malik, a civilian killed during a protest, as they head towards his home from a hospital in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 05 August 2010. Indian troops allegedly fired live ammunition on Kashmiri protesters on 05 August, reportedly killing one and wounding several others during a protest. For nearly two months, Kashmir has been in the grips of violent protests, as angry young men, women and children, have held demonstrations against Indian rule in the region. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN

Kashmiri protester shout slogans holding empty bullet shells while standing beside a government vehicle which had been set afire by a mob during a demonstration in Srinagar ,the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 04 August 2010, who were protesting over the recent deaths in The Kashmir Valley. Five more demonstrators died in Indian Kashmir as new protests erupted in defiance of pleas for calm from the region's chief minister, the deaths again brought huge crowds chanting anti-India slogans on to the streets of Srinagar as the bodies of two dead men were carried on stretchers to their funerals.. The death in early June of a 17-year-old student -- killed by a police tear-gas shell set off the series of almost daily protests during which scores of people have been killed, 27 of them since July 30. At least 44 people have died in the weeks of unrest most of them killed by security forces trying to disperse angry protests against Indian rule. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN

Wife of Arif Mushtaq wails near his body as relatives (unseen) prepare his body for his funeral in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 13 March 2010. Arif, a special police officer was shot by unknown gunmen outside his residency during the night on 12 March police said. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN

Indian paramilitary soldiers on duty during a curfew in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 31 July 2010. Two Kashmiri Muslim protesters were killed while 40 people including 30 police men were injured in fresh clashes that erupted in the region on Saturday taking civilian death since 11 June to 23. Authorities had imposed curfew which hundreds people tried to violate resulting in day long clashes. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN

People cry while holding photograhs of their murderd relatives during a day-long hunger strike in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 26 February 2011. The pro-independent separatist leader and Chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) Mohammed Yasin Malik staged a day-long hunger strike in Srinagar to protest the arrests of youth including students by police and to express solidarity with Kashmiri detainees in various Indian jails. Police in Indian Kashmir arrested hundreds of youth including separatists following last year's massive protests. The arrests are part of the continuing crackdown to stop further protests.Though some youth have been released still many are undergoing detention. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN

A young woman wails over the dead body of 16-year-old Feroz Ahmad at Palhalan, Pattan, 30 kms North of Srinagar, Indian Kashmir, 06 September 2010. Three persons, including a teeanager, were killed and some others injured during clashes between the police and protesters on 06 September 2010, police said. These dead take the death toll of civilians killed in alleged police and paramilitary action in Kashmir since 11 June 2010 to 69. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN

Kashmiris carry the coffins during the funeral procession of Muzaffar Bhat and Fayaz Ahamed Wani in Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 06 July 2010.Two person including a young woman was killed and two others wounded as Indian government forces allegedly fired on hundreds of rock-throwing demonstrators in Indian Kashmir capital city Srinagar, protesting the death of a teenager a day earlier in the region. Police said the teenager died after he slipped into a stream by accident, a claim rejected by the locals who said that Indian paramilitary soldiers beat the teenager with sticks and later threw him into a stream. EPA/FAROOQ KHAN