No phone or internet. In Srinagar, the capital of Indian Kashmir, the inhabitants remain cut off from the world. A week ago, the Indian authorities imposed a curfew and a "blackout", to avoid a popular uprising, after the decision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to revoke the autonomy of the region.
The city of 1.5 million people spent the week without a phone or internet. Everyone was confined at home, unless they had a pass. To reach relatives, it is necessary to queue because the authorities have made available only two phones.
"We are facing a lot of problems, my children are in Delhi, I can not do anything and I'm worried, I have not talked to them for five days, what are we going to become?"
"We are imprisoned, like in a cage"
Anger and frustration intensify in the valley. While Kashmiris have already been subjected to numerous curfews and security checks, this time they say they have never seen anything like it.
A family agreed to talk to France 24, but on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisals from the government. "We are imprisoned in a cage, we are totally cut off from the rest of the world, we do not know what is going on outside and what will be the solution to our problem in the future." But the most important thing is our They suffer and all schools are closed, "says a woman.
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Like many Kashmiris, this woman is afraid of running out of food to feed her family. The shops remain closed and because of the roadblocks, the movements are very complicated, even with a neighbor: "There is nothing outside, yesterday we could just have two boxes of eggs and the vegetables are all rotten. We bought them like that but we can not eat things like that. "
The government says the situation is under control, but since the revocation of Article 370, the demonstrations are increasing. Several politicians in Kashmir fear reprisals in an area where for the past 30 years the separatist insurgency has already claimed tens of thousands of lives.