'I am going to see if my friend is alive or not.' TRT World speaks to Kashmiris who are facing military curfew and a communication blackout imposed by India since August 4
The Indian government's taxing military crackdown in the disputed Jammu and Kashmir region is pushing its eight-million-strong besieged population toward disease and starvation.
Last week, Kashmir was rife with rumours. They were fuelled by a series of rushed decrees passed by India's governing Bharatiya Janata Party , a Hindu nationalist party led by firebrand orator Prime Minister Narendra Modi. First, a reinforcement of at least 38,000 troops was sent to add strength to over five million Indian soldiers and police who are already stationed in India-held part of Kashmir.
The following day, the Indian parliament approved the presidential order of ending Kashmir's limited autonomy or in constitutional terms the Article 370, a law that acts as a cornerstone of a treaty named Instrument of Accession signed by India and the erstwhile princely state of Jammu and Kashmir in 1947.
“Now there is only one way, that is war,” said a shopkeeper in the Nawab Bazar area of Srinagar city, on Monday morning, when he announced to his neighbours the abrogation of the special status. “I just watched on TV [Satellite dish TV], they announced it. Everything is gone.”
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