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Black Day: A Symbol of Resistance in Kashmir

Black Day: A Symbol of Resistance in Kashmir

Every year, while India celebrates January 26 as their Republic day, a national holiday commemorating the adoption of the Indian Constitution, Kashmiris have designated this date as “Black Day” , a dark day that signifies their intense rejection against India's...

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Bollywood as a Tool of Occupation and Propaganda

Bollywood as a Tool of Occupation and Propaganda

The Indian film industry is globally one of the largest and most significant movie-making industries, releasing about 1000 films each year. Perceived broadly with elements like romance, melodrama, and song-dance sequences, the Indian film form has been an effective...

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How India’s Push for Tourism is Hiding the Abuses in Kashmir

How India’s Push for Tourism is Hiding the Abuses in Kashmir

India goes to the polls in 2024 and the message that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP want the world to know is that there is nothing wrong in Kashmir. With his heavy-handed leadership, he has “stabilized” the region, and there is a so-called booming sector of...

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Palestine and Kashmir – Two sides of the same coin

Palestine and Kashmir – Two sides of the same coin

The people of Palestine have suffered extensively for the crime of simply trying to exist freely and with dignity in their homeland. The brazen Israeli settler colonialism eroded the West Bank, and blockaded the Gaza Strip which has turned it into a de-facto prison...

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The War on Journalism in Kashmir

The War on Journalism in Kashmir

Contemporary journalism is a difficult, thankless, and often dangerous job. Globally, the number of journalists unlawfully killed has increased. In 2022, 67 reporters were killed – most in Russia, Ukraine, and Haiti as a result of war and unrest. The number of...

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History of the Kashmiri Occupation

History of the Kashmiri Occupation

Kashmir is not a free state. Its dreams of self-determination and even autonomy have been torn asunder by the Indian government. With each year that passes, those dreams seem further out of reach, but they should never be forgotten. Forgetting is what the Modi...

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Kashmir Dispatch April 2023

Kashmir Dispatch April 2023

WKA – News roundup – April 2023 The world watched in horror this month as the Civil War renewed in Sudan, shutting down the Capital City of Khartoum and the specter of another genocide on the African continent only two years removed from the Tigray War in neighboring...

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How India systematically destroyed Kashmir’s economy

How India systematically destroyed Kashmir’s economy

Economic repression is an insidious form of repression. It seldom garners outrage from the outside world, especially in the West where poverty is often viewed as a personal choice, although as we know, that is not always the case. Yet, economic repression can be as...

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Kashmir Dispatch March 2023

Kashmir Dispatch March 2023

WKA – News Round Up – March 2023 As India prepares to open itself up to the world for the G-20 summit, it is desperate to keep the ghosts of Kashmir hidden away and the graves covered up. Truth has a way of making itself known, it rises like a fire and it won’t be...

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Modi seeks legitimacy for Kashmir oppression in G20 Summit

Modi seeks legitimacy for Kashmir oppression in G20 Summit

Dictators and autocrats constantly seek legitimacy for their human rights abuses and all too often, they find an eager world waiting to look away. That is because they don’t want to confront them. The rotating presidency of the G-20 allows a member state to organize...

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Kashmir Dispatch February 2023

Kashmir Dispatch February 2023

WKA News Roundup – February 2023 February is a short month, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t big stories coming out of Kashmir. From ongoing protests against the eviction drive to Modi’s continuing war on the press, here are the biggest stories for February 2023....

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Sweeping Evictions Rock Jammu & Kashmir

Sweeping Evictions Rock Jammu & Kashmir

Since the beginning of February,  hundreds of people have been forcibly evicted from their homes by the settler-colonialist government abetted by the callousness and ineptitude of the local politicians and their followers. The evictions have also targeted and removed...

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