Srinagar: India’s Hindutva BJP government and its regime in IIOJK is systematically paving the way for settler colonialism in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir by giving lands under new brutal anti Kashmir laws one after another following illegal and unilateral abrogation of the territory’s special status on 5 August 2019.
India has been treating Jammu and Kashmir as its colony right from 27 October 1947 when it landed its troops in Srinagar and illegally occupied the territory against the wishes of the Kashmiri people.
Colonization of IIOJK has been a long-pending dream of RSS and BJP, adding that including non-Kashmiri Hindus in the voter list is yet another step to advance Hindutva government’s dangerous game plan in the occupied territory.
To prove its point, the Kashmir Media Service cited a report titled “Colonial Diary – A Repository of Settler Colonial Diktats in IIOJK” released last year by the All Parties Hurriyat Conference (APHC-AJK) chapter and Legal Forum for Kashmir (LFK) jointly in Islamabad on Wednesday. The report includes around 220 legislations, administrative changes, orders, notifications, and press releases by India in the last three years (August 2019 – August 2022) after the abrogation of Article 370 and 35 A.
As per the Colonial Dairy, post-August 5, 2019, the Indian government introduced many new laws and amended several others to facilitate the issuance of domicile and land-owning rights to non-Kashmiris, mostly Hindus. Until June 2022, four million such certificates have been issued, making it very clear how India is wantonly altering the demography of Kashmir, it said, adding the new laws also allow the lands acquired by the government for industrial or commercial purposes to be disposed of or sold to any Indian and that these also authorize the Indian occupying forces to declare any area as “strategic” for operational and training purposes. It said, this is a form of land-grabbing as the Indian occupying forces are already occupying thousands of hectares of land in IIOJK.
The Narendra Modi-led fascist Indian government which has started another round of its nefarious attempts to paint a rosy picture of the ground situation in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and hoodwink the world into believing that everything is normal in the territory. The Modi regime and its armed Indian army and police establishment has been constantly attempting to mislead the international community about the grim situation prevailing in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir since it revoked the special status of the territory on August 05, 2019.
However, despite the Modi regime’s hectic attempts, the international community is not ready to subscribe to its narrative of normalcy in IIOJK. The reports released by the human rights organizations from time to time puncture the Indian government’s balloon of “all is well” in IIOJK
The KMS report maintained that the RSS-backed Hindutva regime’s colonial measures in IIOJK are clear violations of the United Nations resolutions and urged the global community to wake up to take notice of the Indian settler-colonial project in the occupied territory.
