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Massive security as Hindu cleric's proposal is rejected, tension

(17 Mar 2002) 1. Police/soldiers on trucks and bus 2. Various of soldiers in bus 3. Soldier sitting with machine gun 4. Various of convoy of trucks 5. Tracking shot of trucks carrying troops 8. Entrance to Faizabad district 9. Locals watching police 10. People in front of Mosque STORYLINE: Indian Muslim leaders have rejected a compromise proposal by a Hindu cleric designed to calm a violent dispute over a holy site at Ayodhya that has cost 700 lives in less than two weeks. One of Hinduism's top religious leaders, the Shankaracharya of Kanchi, had proposed that Hindus be given land next to the site Ayodhya where a mosque was burned down in 1992 by militant Hindus, who claim is the birthplace of the Hindu god Ram. But a spokesman for the All-India Muslim Personal Law Board said the proposal was lacking and had not been accepted by Muslim leaders Thousands of Indian police and paramilitary troops were on the streets of the eastern town of Ayodhya in a visible show of force on Sunday. The government decided to send police and paramilitaries to the town as a precaution to prevent any further clashes. Also on Sunday, one Hindu hard-liner was killed and five injured after police fired on a crowd of activists trying to stage a religious ceremony in eastern India in defiance of a ban imposed after recent sectarian violence, a senior officer said. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...