India gutted Kashmir’s political and activist class via mass detention
Evidence
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 (
#expands, via linked claim)
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
Related
- India deploys one soldier per thirteen Kashmir residents (similarity 0.89)
- India has military-occupied Kashmir at a ratio of one soldier per thirteen residents. (similarity 0.88)
- Kashmiri photography substitutes for banned speech and assembly under Indian occupation. (similarity 0.83)
- India functionally annexed Kashmir in October 2019 (similarity 0.82)
- Photography functions as political speech in Kashmir’s silencing military occupation (similarity 0.82)
- India blacked out Kashmir’s internet to enable un witnessed state violence (similarity 0.81)
- India imposed a six-month communications blackout on Kashmir with a million troops (similarity 0.81)
- Denial of Kashmir’s special status preceded mass imprisonment of its political class (similarity 0.80)
- Indian propagandists doctored images of Kashmir to fake claims over it (similarity 0.80)
- Photography becomes Kashmir’s only surviving medium for dissent under Indian occupation (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- India deploys one soldier per thirteen Kashmir residents
#expands(0.55) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 521