Now one can spin this story in a couple of different ways. Is it a case or terrorism, an independence-minuded uprising, or foreign aggression? Regardless, it is an outrage -- the murder of innocents to accomplish a political end is never an acceptable means to any end.

Suspected Islamic militants raided a village and killed 22 Hindus after lining them up outside their homes in India's portion of the disputed territory of Kashmir, police said Monday.

An additional five Hindus were wounded in the attack Sunday night in Thava, a village 105 miles northeast of Jammu in India's Jammu-Kashmir state, said Sheesh Pal Vaid, inspector-general of police.

Some villagers rushed to a nearby army camp and sought help, and the assailants fled the village by the time security forces reached the area, Vaid said. No other details were immediately available.

No one claimed responsibility for Sunday night's killings. But Vaid said, "It is definitely a terrorist attack," meaning that police suspect that Islamic militants were to blame.

Nearly a dozen insurgent groups have been fighting for Kashmir's independence or its merger with Pakistan since 1989.

Regardles of where one stands on the isue of Kashmir -- and there are good arguments on all sides -- no one can legitimately support murder. The Kashmiri issue cannot be solved in this manner.

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