What is life in Kashmir under India crackdown

Life in Kashmir has been paralysed. Stores remain closed, and traffic along normally busy crossroads is thin. They are in a horrible situation at the moment because the Indian are killing insentient people for no-reason, same say that they are Muslims that are coursing the killing same even say that is Pakistan is the problem. Also these a part of the territory have been calmed by China. The Indians cut their electricity so the Kashmirs won't now what is happening to them and around the world.

Kashmiri women bear some of the heaviest loads after India's lockdown.

Srinagar, Indian administered Kashmir - Everyone was home, but afraid. The police were hunting for protesters in the neighbourhood. Mushtaq Ahmad's 13-year-old son, a resident of Noorbagh in Srinagar, could be arrested, so his sister caught hold of him to hide him, trembling, as she saw police barge into her home.

Ahmad, a class 7 student, was equally afraid. The police first dragged his sister by the hair, and then thrashed her in front of Ahmad. His cousin's sister, Soliha Jan, couldn't bear the scene and tried to intervene. The police didn't budge and turned towards Soliha and beat her up as well. They kicked her in the stomach and also hit her back, they say as her family recalls the horrifying day in August.

"Soliha vomited blood through her mouth and then fainted," her mother said. She then took her to a city hospital where she underwent an X-ray. After a few more tests, the doctors advised that she be admitted to the emergency ward.

More than two weeks had passed since the Indian government abrogated Article 370 and downsized the disputed region of Jammu and Kashmir into to union territories earlier on August 5. The article gave Kashmir a degree of autonomy within the Indian state, but now it will be under the direct rule of the central government with a nominal state legislature.

As the government unilaterally revoked the special status, a severe clampdown was imposed in the region with hundreds of people including politicians, lawyers and businessmen arrested and a communication blackout imposed.