Kashmir Crisis -- News Updates August 11, 2019

New York Times: Inside Kashmir, Cut Off From the World: ‘A Living Hell’ of Anger and Fear

SRINAGAR, Kashmir — On the streets of Srinagar, Kashmir’s biggest city, security officers tied black bandannas over their faces, grabbed their guns and took positions behind checkpoints. People glanced out the windows of their homes, afraid to step outside. Many were cutting back on meals and getting hungry.

A sense of coiled menace hung over the locked-down city and the wider region on Saturday, a day after a huge protest erupted into clashes between Kashmiris and Indian security forces.

Shops were shut. A.T.M.s had run dry. Just about all lines to the outside world — internet, mobile phones, even landlines — remained severed, rendering millions of people incommunicado.

Correspondents for The New York Times got one of the first inside views of life under lockdown in Kashmir and found a population that felt besieged, confused, frightened and furious by the seismic events of this week.

People who ventured out said they had to beg officers to cross a landscape of sandbags, battered trucks and soldiers staring at them through metal face masks. Several residents said they had been beaten up by security forces for simply trying to buy necessities like milk.

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Kashmir Crisis -- News Updates August 11, 2019

India reimposes some restrictions in Kashmir ahead of Muslim festival -- Reuters
Tear gas at Kashmir rally India denies happened -- BBC
Thousands protest in Indian Kashmir over new status despite clampdown -- Reuters
India eases restrictions in Kashmir for Islamic festival -- AP
Kashmir curfew eased in Srinagar but blackout remains -- The Guardian
Some signs of normality return to Kashmir, but India's clampdown still strict -- Reuters
India's Kashmir clampdown pushes some in Pakistan to discuss rejoining militants -- Reuters
Pakistan PM says world inaction on Kashmir like appeasing Hitler -- AFP
Call waiting: Kashmiris queue for two-minute phone access -- AFP
Inside Kashmir's lockdown: 'Even I will pick up a gun' -- BBC
Kashmiris fear escalating tension: 'We live in danger' -- Al Jazeera
Kashmir tensions spill over to Britain’s Pakistani and Indian communities -- The Guardian
India's foreign minister visits China amid Kashmir crisis -- DW
How India’s Kashmir move complicates the border issue with China -- Ankit Panda, SCMP