OPINION: JammuAndKashmir have become an information black hole under India’s military occupation, and its people largely forgotten by the world in what resembles an open-air prison, writes Shannon Ebrahim.
Jammu and Kashmir have become an information black hole under India’s military occupation, and its people largely forgotten by the world in what resembles an open-air prison. Few give voice to this illegal occupation and annexation as the world’s attention is elsewhere and there is little political will to change the status quo.
Health-care providers complain that it takes one hour to download international recommendations for Covid-19 patients in intensive care. To make matters worse, since the escalation of the pandemic in March this year, India has cut Jammu and Kashmir’s internet access 55 times. From the time India abrogated Article 370 on August 5 last year, the territory was denied internet access for a full seven months, the most traumatic communications blackout of the seven decades of occupation.
That translates into anyone who does not stick to the narrative of the occupying power or exerts independence. Even photographers are being jailed under the terror law. There are now more than 7000 political prisoners in the territory who are routinely tortured and maltreated. The region’s top administrative official, Girish Chander Murmu, told reporters in June that the law was aimed at bringing economic prosperity. Authorities have called the new residency rights an overdue measure to foster greater economic development by opening up the region for outside investment.
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