A police officer watches Kashmiri men protest following a shootout between police and militants, Srinagar, India, Sept. 17, 2020 (AP photo by Mukhtar Khan).
After India Revoked Its Autonomy, Kashmir Sees Repression and Militancy Rise
A WPR Contributor in Srinagar Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020
Editor’s Note: WPR has agreed to publish this article anonymously due to the hostile environment in Kashmir toward independent reporting.
SRINAGAR, India—In July, I joined a group of young men plodding glumly through verdant paddy fields in Bijbehara, a picturesque town tucked inside a network of lofty mountains in the Kashmir Valley. It was the middle of the monsoon season. One of the men was recounting a midnight raid conducted by the Indian Army in a nearby village, Arwani, in August last year. ...