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This issue of Kashmir Affairs has been written in the backdrop of August 2008 uprising in Indian Occupied Kashmir. As Pakistan and India celebrated their 61st Independence Day with
glittering fanfare on 14th and 15th August 2008, respectively, all public
squares, bazaars and streets in Indian-administered Kashmir were
deserted. A curfew was imposed by the Indian Army, unsuccessfully
as it turned out, public protests by millions of Kashmiris swelling the
valley‘s streets calling for an end to Indian rule. In less than a week,
Indian forces killed more than thirty unarmed civilians including a
prominent political leader – Sheikh Abdul Aziz. The public protest
started as the Indian government transferred 40 hectares of land to a
Hindu trust that manages a local shrine, Amarnath, amid fears that
India is trying to bring about slow demographic change as the number
of Muslim population has dwindled significantly over the last six decades.
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