KASHMIRI HINDU WOMEN IN A KITCHEN IN NEW DELHI, 1998-06-11 (photo)

FOR RELEASE WITH STORY BC-KASHMIR HINDU - Kashmiri Hindu women prepare to cook meals for their family in a kitchen, shared by 20 families in a make-shift home, in the corner of a community hall in the Indian capital of New Delhi. The women are among the 450,000 Hindus from India's Moslem majority state of Jammu and Kashmir who fled their homes to escape separatist violence which started in 1990. There is little privacy for the Kashmiri Hindus who live in tiny spaces partitioned by old blankets. But only a very few want to return home because of the violence in the strife-torn state. KK/JIR