[Shopian, Kashmir; June 24. Image via Getty]

A Kashmiri woman takes part in a protest rally headed by Kashmir's chief cleric and All Parties Hurriyat Confrence (APHC) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in Shopian, south of Srinagar on June 24, 2009. Thousands of people in Indian-ruled Kashmir defied a ban on protest marches June 24 with a fresh demonstration over the alleged rapes and murders of two young Muslim women by Indian troops. The death of a 17-year-old girl and her 22-year-old sister-in-law has sparked widespread anti-India demonstrations in the disputed Muslim-majority Kashmir Valley since their bodies were found in a stream on May 30 and forensic tests revealed they had been raped. AFP PHOTO/Tauseef MUSTAFA (Photo credit should read TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP/Getty Images)