Is Anyone Listening?
After sixty-two years of enforcing military occupation, with particular reference to the last twenty years, one of the government of India’s worst fears is being realised. It is now faced with non-violent mass protests (commonly known as the Kashmiri intifada) in entire Jammu and Kashmir. This is nourished by people’s memory of years of Indian repression in which tens of thousands have been killed, hundreds of thousands tortured, injured, molested, raped, and disappeared. In the recent past the 27…