{"id":116767,"date":"2021-08-04T16:21:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T23:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=116767"},"modified":"2021-08-04T16:21:24","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T23:21:24","slug":"5th-august-2019-the-ever-blackest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/08\/04\/5th-august-2019-the-ever-blackest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"5th AUGUST 2019-THE EVER BLACKEST DAY"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Abrogation\nof the articles 370 and 35-A in Indian illegally Occupied Kashmir has altogether\nchanged the demography of the Jammu Kashmir Valley. The helpless people of the\nJammu Kashmir valley, who were already in trouble at the hands of the Indian\ntroops, now are in a state of more pain and more agony. They are deprived of\ntheir liberty as well as of their identity. The article 370 allowed the state\nof Jammu Kashmir a certain amount of autonomy – its own constitution, a\nseparate flag and freedom to make laws. Foreign affairs defence and\ncommunications remained the preserve of the central government. This article\nallowed the people of the valley to make their own rules relating to permanent\nresidency, ownership of property and fundamental rights. The article 370 also\nbarred Indians alien to the state from purchasing property or settling there. Most\nof the Kashmiris are of the opinion that the BJP ultimately wants to change the\ndemographic character of the Muslim-majority region by allowing non-Kashmiris\nto buy land there. BBC said in an analysis, Kashmir will no longer have a\nseparate constitution but will have to abide by the Indian constitution much\nlike any other state. All Indian laws will be automatically applicable to\nKashmiris, and people from outside the state will be able to buy property\nthere.\u201d The government on the other hand has an altogether different point of\nview that this step has been taken in benefit of the people of the valley and\nit will bring a lot of development to the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When\nthe Article 35A was in practice, it allowed the legislature of\nIndian-administered Kashmir to define the state’s permanent residents. It was\napplied to all of Illegally Indian-Occupied Kashmir, including Jammu and\nLadakh, says a report. All identified residents were issued a permanent resident\ncertificate, which entitled them to special benefits related to employment,\nscholarships and other privileges. But the biggest advantage for permanent\nresidents was that only they had the right to buy and own property in the\nstate. Both these laws were formulated somewhere in May 1954 and it was decided\nthat all those who were living in the state that time and those who have lived\nin the state for 10 years anytime since, would be ranked  as permanent residents. In short this special\nstatus of Jammu and Kashmir had been a continuous pain in the neck of BJP since\nlong. The BJP leadership was\nall time planning to snatch away that special status from the distressed people\nof Kashmir; so ultimately the \u2018leadership\u2019 did it. Situation after revocation\nof these articles is so horrible that no one from the outside world even can\nguess the severity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NDTV\u2019s\ncorrespondent Nazir Masoodi said in a report expressing his feelings of fear\nand uncertainty a night before revocation of these articles. It was the most\ntense and uncertain night of our life. Troops were in every nook and cranny to\nimpose a tough curfew. Before midnight, a complete communication blockade was\nenforced. Mobile phones, the internet and even landlines were snapped. All the\nsecurity measures were in place to quell any public revolt. A massive troop\nbuildup, contingency orders, the evacuation of non-locals, tourists and Amaranth\npilgrims – for us locals, these were ominous signs. The worst fear was that the\ncentre would do away with Article 35A which defined special privileges for\npermanent residents of J&K in the areas of jobs and land rights. No one had\nthought that it may well be the end of J&K state, its Constitution and\nArticle 370. Next year in 2020, the same correspondent once again said, One\nyear on, there is no fear of losing anything – because there is nothing left to\nlose. The burden of special status is gone. August 5 last year redefined\neverything for the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Article 370, which enshrined\nthe relationship between J&K state and the union of India for last 70\nyears, is gone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last\nyear on 4th<\/sup> August, a year after the abrogation of Articles 370 and\n35-A, an article of Kaisar Andrabi was published in the Diplomat. The writer\nsaid, All modes of communication were cut off, and the region is still without\nhigh-speed internet a year later, causing many difficulties for average\nKashmiris. About 7,000 people were arrested before and after August 5, 2019,\nincluding nearly the entire mainstream political leadership. Before August 5,\n2019, Kashmir was a nominally autonomous region. After August 5, it has become\nvirtually a settler colony in the making. Kashmir thus became an annexed\nterritory where all existing structures, the majority of them Indian-made, were\ndissolved so they could fit into the vision of India held by the ruling BJP,\nwhose founding fathers were never comfortable with the unique constitutional\nstatus of the only Muslim-majority state.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abrogation\nof the Articles 370 and 35-A would severely disfigure the whole of social and\neconomic fiber in the Illegally Occupied Valley of Kashmir which has ever been\nthe worst victim to the Indian atrocities. Reports say that since 1989, over\n100,000 Kashmiris have been killed by Indian forces. More than 7,200 people\nhave been murdered in the custody of the Indian Army. More than 11,000 women\nhave been raped by Indian occupation forces. This brutality of the Indian\ntroops has orphaned more than 110,000 children and widowed more than 23,000\nwomen. Now after brutally successful demographic change, situation of law and\norder would get worse and worse with the passage of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER Abrogation of the articles 370 and 35-A in Indian illegally Occupied Kashmir has altogether changed the demography of the Jammu Kashmir Valley. The helpless people of the Jammu Kashmir valley, who were already in trouble at the hands of the Indian troops, now are in a state of more pain and more agony. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ali-sukhanver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}