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| India protesters refuse to relent |
| Three days after 14 people were killed in violent clashes in India's Rajasthan state, tribal protesters are refusing to cremate six of their dead.
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| INDIA
, 31-May-2007
3:35:43 AM |
| Some 25,000 members of the nomadic Gujjar tribe are blocking a key national highway along with the bodies.
Officials say the situation across the state is very volatile.
The Gujjars are demanding that they be included in an affirmative action quota which would give them access to government jobs and other benefits.
The trouble started on Tuesday in the state's Dausa district when police fired on Gujjar protesters who had blocked the main road connecting the city of Jaipur with the tourist destination of Agra where the Taj Mahal is located.
Several tens of thousands of protesters are continuing to sit on the highway along with the bodies of their dead.
The unrest has now spread across the state, with properties and vehicles vandalised and road blocks set up every five kilometres.
A strike call by protesters has shut several towns, including Kota and Ajmer, although the state capital, Jaipur, continues to function normally.
The situation in the towns of Karauli and Bharatpur is also tense.
Train services across the state have been disrupted, with protesters uprooting rail tracks in many places.
Bus services to the state from the Indian capital, Delhi, have been cancelled.
The first round of talks between the state government, led by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and leaders of the Gujjars on Wednesday night failed to break the deadlock and the two sides are due to resume their dialogue again later on Thursday.
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