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the population are NOT happy. their concerns are not listened and acted upon. tyranny is the name of the game.

people have just one demand. secession. that is a culmination of over 500 years of struggle.

the point is, people do not want to remain in the union so the government is using every trick in the book to force people to remain in place.

from mass rapes to torture to collective punishment, we people have basically seen all.

information blockade is yet another tool. you know a couple of journalists from the valley won pulitzer for a striking picture

https://www.pulitzer.org/cms/sites/default/files/styles/slid...

you should read on the interesting story how the photos were smuggled outside the valley. it reads like a spy triller.

point is, the government is scared of an uprising so they simply turn off the internet and hope people will forget.

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> that is a culmination of over 500 years of struggle.

Against whom? The Afghans? The Mughals? The Sikh Empire? The British? Republic of India?

> people have just one demand. secession.

This is never going to happen: 'The Partition and the violence of 1947 in Kashmir forced the Constituent Assembly to revise its approach and it resolved in favour of a strong Centre. The possibility of the secession of States from the Union weighed on the minds of the drafters of the Constitution and ensured that the Indian Union is “indestructible”. In the Constituent Assembly, B.R Ambedkar, the Chairman of the Drafting Committee, observed that the word ‘Union’ was advisedly used in order to negative the right of secession of States by emphasising, after all, that “India shall be a Union of States”. Ambedkar justified the usage of ‘Union of States’ saying that the Drafting Committee wanted to make it clear that though India was to be a federation, it was not the result of an agreement and that therefore, no State has the right to secede from it. “The federation is a Union because it is indestructible,” Ambedkar said.'[1]

[1] The ‘Union government’ has a unifying effect (https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-union-government-...)

big words but don't mean much. if your government can violate 35a, 370, that means nothing is sacrosanct in indian constitution.

yes.

>Against whom? The Afghans? The Mughals? The Sikh Empire? The British? Republic of India?

yes. countless aggressors have tried to exert their control over this piece of land and people and every time they have perished and the people have survived to fight.

Why is the protester in the picture wearing a US flag on his face?

nothing of significance. we just use whatever is on hand

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