Tag: How smartphones are shaping Kashmir’s insurgency

It is all too easy to dismiss the upsurge in violence in Indian-administered Kashmir this weekend as just another cycle in a conflict that has ebbed and flowed ever since the country received independence in 1947. But that would be to ignore a new factor that is transforming the nature of protest in the region. There’s a clue to what is happening in the government’s response to the threat of disorder. Burhan Wani, the young militant leader whose death sparked the latest explosion of violence, was killed in a gun…

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