As India revokes autonomy in Kashmir, security forces have tightened their grip on the region, imposing curfew-like conditions and a telecommunications blackout, and inflamed tensions with Pakistan.
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"One thing they have learned, the government, from past experiences, is to control communication," said Siddhartha Dubey, a journalism professor at India's Ashoka University. The government has been"remarkably successfully," Dubey said."This is a remarkable exercise." On Thursday, tens of thousands of government forces in riot gear were on patrol, with deserted streets lined with shuttered shops and steel barricades and razor wire cutting off neighborhoods, The Associated Press reported.
"By dismembering the state and fraudulently taking away what is rightfully and legally ours, they have further complicated the Kashmir dispute," she said.
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