Total communication blackouts force Kashmiris to address their grievances to the landscape itself.

Evidence

With no freedom of speech or assembly or association to exercise in the face of Indian imperialism, Kashmiris are forced to tell it to the mountain. Those familiar mountains, hugging a land and a people who have seen it all and are destined to see far more. Standing there alongside them when nobody else will. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 522

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The mountains-as-witness trope parallels the trees-as-infrastructure piece’s sentient-witness theme — landscape as a silent confidant under political repression.