India deploys one soldier per thirteen Kashmir residents
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This is Kashmir. A land of a million pictures that inspire a million more. A place where India has deployed one soldier for every thirteen residents, and swarms of photographers pushing propaganda in place of the authentic images snapped by the locals. A place so beautiful that it has spawned generations of photographers, like Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan, and Channi Anand, who won the Pulitzer Prize—and some like Roya and Ahmer Khan, who clutch their phones and cameras as their homeland’s last line of resistance. Cut off from the world. With almost every lane of contact severed and every line of communication suspended, Roya and Ahmer and every Kashmiri walking those heavily occupied streets with a picture of freedom in their head and a camera in their hands. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 521
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