Daily Times

The dawn of August 5, 2019 brought in another era of torture, subjugation and usurpation of fundamental rights in Indian occupied Kashmir. It was another day of political betrayal, injustice and violation of human rights for Kashmiri people by yet another successive Indian regime.

The RSS plagued Narendra Modi government had made the sham decision of annexing Occupied Kashmir by revoking article 370, shocking the saner segment within India and abroad.

Everyone had a sense of injustice and disillusionment except fascist Modi, his aides and RSS. Some described it as a political holocaust inflicted on innocent people. Others saw it as sheer violation of international law and an illegal decision analogous to committing a fraud with Kashmiri people. India had violated United Nations Security Council resolutions on Kashmir and Modi and aides had acted as land grabbing mafia.

Since partition, this legacy of betraying, kidnapping, torturing and killing Kashmiris continued. The Kashmiri leadership has once again urged world nations to redeem their pledge of right to self-determination for Kashmiris.

From 1954 until August 05, 2019, Jammu and Kashmir enjoyed special status under the Indian Constitution.

Under Article 370 of the Indian Constitution, the State of Jammu and Kashmir’, was accorded autonomy. India had allowed the state to have its own constitution, a separate flag and independence over all matters except defence, foreign affairs and communications. The state’s residents lived under a separate set of laws related to citizenship, ownership of property and fundamental rights, as compared to other Indians. But in a major shift, the Modi government revoked article 370 making the Indian constitution to come into full force in Indian Occupied Kashmir. The Article 35A of the Indian Constitution allowed the legislature to define the state’s “permanent residents.”