The French mediapart said that 7 million people were imprisoned in their homes on 5 August 2019 in the Indian-controlled part of Kashmir under a strict military curfew, after phones and the Internet were cut off, so that the Indian Parliament approved the next day a bill that strips This territory has its own autonomy and special status.

In an article by writer Arundhati Roy, the site reviewed the results of a year of repression launched by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Jammu and Kashmir, in which 13,000 people were arrested and placed in pretrial detention, in which many of them still remain.

The writer, who is a member of the Council of the Progressive International Organization, said, "We are told that the Kashmir problem has been solved last and forever, and therefore the decades-long struggle of the people of Kashmir for self-determination has led to thousands of enforced disappearances and cruel torture, and claimed the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers." Activists and civilians, it is simply over. "

As for the worst - as the author sees it - it is legally revoking the certificates of the state of Kashmir except as evidence that accompanies the Kashmiri request to obtain residency in his country, and the residency may be refused and those whose application is rejected may deport, which means that Kashmir is facing complete cultural obliteration.

Provocations

In Parliament - as the writer says - Interior Minister Amit Shah went further, and said that he was ready to sacrifice his life to control the lands that India calls "Occupied Pakistani Kashmir" and what Kashmiris call Azad Kashmir.

He also referred to the border regions of Gilgit Baltistan and Askai Shin, which is part of the ancient Kingdom of Jammu and Kashmir under the control of China, without knowing that he was running in a dangerous region in the literal and metaphorical sense of the word, because these borders he was talking about are between three nuclear powers, except that humiliation This Kashmir inflated the Moody's sacred aura, according to the author.

The writer reviewed India's provocations to the neighbors, and not taking into account what China urged it to "be careful in its words and actions on the issue of borders."

Thus - the writer says - a year has passed and the conflict in Kashmir has not ended yet, as the media reported the killing of 34 soldiers, 154 activists and 17 civilians, indicating that it is understood that the scientist who was traumatized by Corona did not notice what the Indian government did to the people of Kashmir.

The curfew and the communications blockade continued for months, with all that the blockade entailed in terms of lack of access to doctors, suspension of work, economic activity, schools and contacts with relatives, which was not done even by the United States in its war on Iraq.

And he visualizes - as the author says - after months of quarantine because of Corona, how this affected the world - although it is not accompanied by a military curfew or a ban on communications - and made hundreds of millions of people suffer in their mental health, let alone Kashmir, which suffers under the most military siege. Density in the world. "

The writer adds, "In addition to the suffering that Corona inflicts on you, you live in a maze of barbed wire in your streets, and the soldiers storm your homes, beat men, abuse women, destroy your food stocks, and broadcast the screams of the tormented in the loudspeakers."

"Add to that a judicial system that kept the internet blockade for a whole year, ignoring 600 petitions submitted by people seeking to know the whereabouts of their family members, and I also added a new law that opens the doors wide open granting Indians the right to reside in Kashmir," she said.

Nuremberg Laws

The author pointed out that the new residency law in Kashmir parallels the clearly anti-Muslim new Indian nationality law, which was passed in December 2019, according to which millions of people were removed from the citizens' registry, as the Indian government works to convert citizens into refugees, which leads to Fueling the crisis of "statelessness".

In parallels with the Nuremberg laws passed by the Nazi Party in Germany in 1935, the new residency law in Kashmir requires citizens to present a set of state-approved documents in order to obtain citizenship, the author says.

What should we call all of this, Roy asked? Is it a war crime or a crime against humanity? And what do we call collusion of institutions and celebrations in the streets of India, is it democracy?

And the writer returned to remember that near India an angry dragon (referring to China) last June killed 20 Indian soldiers, including a colonel on the borders of Kashmir, and occupied hundreds of square kilometers of what India considers its territory.

And the solution - as the author says - "for a fierce national government like ours that does not accept concessions, Modi addressed the nation, saying that he did not occupy an inch of land and no one entered our borders."

But Modi's opponents burst into laughter, because the leaders of the two countries' armies are discussing troop withdrawal and "disengagement," and social media tweets attached their laughter with jokes about the art of leaving without entry, yet the Chinese government was quick to cheer Modi's statement.