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[TRT World]India enacting ‘digital apartheid’ in Kashmir: rights group

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Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society urges international community to question New Delhi over extended communications blackout in disputed Himalayan region in what it called was “collective punishment”.

A Muslim devotee holds a placard outside Jamia Masjid after Friday prayers conducted for the first time since August 5 at the main mosque of Jamia Masjid in Srinagar on December 20, 2019.
A Muslim devotee holds a placard outside Jamia Masjid after Friday prayers conducted for the first time since August 5 at the main mosque of Jamia Masjid in Srinagar on December 20, 2019.
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A prominent rights group in Indian-administered Kashmir has described a communications blackout imposed by India following its scrapping of the disputed region’s semi-autonomy last year “collective punishment” and urged the international community to question New Delhi over what it called “digital apartheid”.

In a report, the Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society described “harms, costs and consequences of the digital siege in Jammu-Kashmir from August 2019”, when New Delhi stripped the region of its statehood and the semi-autonomy that gave its natives special rights in land ownership and jobs.

Read our latest report “Kashmir’s Internet Siege”, with an expansive timeline.

The report provides an overview of the harms, costs and consequences of the digital siege in J&K, from Aug 2019 to the publication of this report in Aug 2020. #Kashmirhttps://t.co/HvgpCIWos6

— JKCCS (@jkccs_) August 25, 2020

The move, which set off widespread anger, was accompanied by a security clampdown and communications blackout in the region that left hundreds of thousands jobless, impaired the already feeble healthcare system and paused the school and college education of millions.

“The multi-faceted and targeted denial of digital rights is a systemic form of discrimination, digital repression and collective punishment of the region’s residents, particularly in light of India’s long history of political repression and atrocities,” said the report, titled “Kashmir’s Internet Siege.”

Several officials, including the region’s home secretary, Shaleen Kabra, who issues internet regulatory orders, did not respond to requests for comment.

READ MORE: What Kashmir is like a year after having its autonomy stripped

Settler colonialism 

Indian officials have said the internet ban was aimed at heading off anti-India protests and attacks by rebels who have fought for decades for the region’s independence or unification with Pakistan, which administers another portion of Kashmir. 

Both countries claim the landlocked Himalayan region in its entirety.

Officials have also argued that such security measures were necessary to better integrate the region with India, foster greater economic development and stop threats from “anti-national elements” and Pakistan.

Many Kashmiris, however, view the move as the beginning of settler colonialism aimed at engineering a demographic change in the Muslim-majority region, a development that could increase the possibility of heightened conflict.

Although some of the communications restrictions have been removed and the internet has been restored over fixed lines, mobile internet speeds in most of the region remain painfully slow.

Since August last year, India has given domicile certificates to thousands of non-locals including  war refugees from Pakistan, Gurkha soldiers from Nepal who had served in the Indian army and sanitation workers from the neighbouring state of Punjab. 

The new domicile rule states that any Indian national who has lived in the region for at least 15 years or has studied for seven years and taken certain exams can become a permanent resident.

India’s has said applications must be issued or rejected within 15 days and has introduced a fine of 50,000 rupees ($670) to be deducted from the salary of any official in the territory who delays the process.

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Kashmir’s internet is 2,000 to 20,000 times slower than the rest of the world.

A report on India’s digital apartheid in Kashmir. By @JKCCS_. #Kashmir. https://t.co/b0YxQCONYk

— Nawaz Gul Qanungo (@nawazqanungo) August 25, 2020

Record shutdowns in Kashmir 

Digital rights activists have consistently denounced the internet restrictions and some have called them “far worse censorship than anywhere in the world”.

The report said India leads the world in ordering internet shutdowns and Kashmir “accounts for more than two-thirds of shutdowns ordered”.

The conflict in Kashmir has existed since the late 1940s, when India and Pakistan won independence from the British empire and began fighting over their rival claims to the territory. The two rivals have fought two wars over Kashmir.

The Jammu-Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society said its report was based on field work, government documents, court files and media reports. 

It describes the consequences of the longest ever lockdown in the region’s turbulent history and its severe impact on livelihoods, education, health and media freedoms.

It said the digital siege led to “chilling effects of online surveillance, profiling and criminal sanctions, with police complaints registered” against some working journalists and over 200 social media users.

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Business loses pegged at billions

Some business in the region resumed following the partial lifting of the clampdown earlier this year. However, Indian authorities enforced another harsh lockdown in March to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industries pegged the economic losses in the region at $5.3 billion and job losses at half a million since August last year.

During the service blackouts, critically ill patients couldn’t access government healthcare or seek insurance reimbursements online, students couldn’t apply for fellowships or scholarships and distraught families couldn’t connect to relatives outside the region. 

Local tech companies had to close or relocate to other areas of India.

“While the Government of India may have succeeded in gagging the voices of people of Jammu and Kashmir with its longstanding communication blockade,” the report said, “it should not prevent the international community from speaking and calling out the Government of India for suppressing the fundamental rights of people.”

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