Tens of thousands of Muslims took to the streets again in India’s part of Kashmir, ignoring a plea by the country’s prime minister for an end to weeks of violence, in which 34 people were killed. A curfew that had been in place in much of Kashmir was lifted earlier because the day appeared calm. But soon after Friday Prayer ended, tens of thousands of people poured into the streets. In the region’s main city, Srinagar, protesters burned Indian flags and raised an Islamic green flag. More than six weeks of unrest in Indian-administered Kashmir have pitted the region’s Muslim majority against its Hindu minority.

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