Five killed in Ladakh autonomy protests in India
Five people were killed in India on Wednesday as police clashed with hundreds of protesters demanding greater autonomy in the Himalayan territory of Ladakh, leaving 鈥榙ozens鈥� injured, police said.
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Divided land, disputed origins: India's Brokpa people
High in the icy Indian Himalayas, a long-isolated people recall origin myths of millennia-old migrations from afar -- an identity in disputed lands twisted today by politics.
Monks, Muslims vote to demand rights for India鈥檚 Ladakh
Buddhist monks and Muslims in the Indian Himalayan territory of Ladakh turned out to vote on Monday, demanding statehood and that their local culture be protected in the overwhelmingly Hindu nation...