Informal civil disobedience movement under way in locked-down Kashmir as locals resist bid by Indian authorities to show some signs of normalcy
Indian paramilitary soldiers stand guard outside the main telephone exchange building in Srinagar, Indian-controlled Kashmir, Thursday, September 5, 2019.
The informal civil disobedience movement has sprung up alongside small but regular street protests by stone-throwing crowds that have been quickly quashed by Indian paramilitary forces and police with tear gas and pellet guns. Firdous Ahmad, a Srinagar resident, said the restoration of landline service "definitely brings a sigh of relief" from Kashmiris living under the lockdown.
"I kept trying a hundred times to reach my family in Kashmir, and only then did my call go through," said Bint-e-Ali, a Kashmiri in the Indian city of Bengaluru."I hope I live to tell this horrendous tale to our next generation about how India didn't even let us talk to our family and friends," she said.In previous phases of protests in Kashmir, resistance groups would issue official calls for shutdowns and protests.
Rohit Kansal, the official spokesman of the region's government, blamed "anti-national" forces for preventing shops from opening. "Security forces have taken note of it," he said.Attendance in major government offices in Srinagar is around 50 percent and those in smaller, subordinate offices in the city is substantially lower, a state government official said, declining to be named as he was not authorised to speak to the media.
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