Web desk: The Indian government’s Operation Sindoor is drawing sharp criticism. As the reports suggest, the campaign relies on staged raids and planted evidence to fuel a media narrative of “success” while masking repression on the ground.
Operation Sindoor is not a security move. It is a show of state power meant to spread fear in Kashmir. The raids and arrests are staged to build a false story, suggest analysts.
Operation Sindoor and the latest raids are acts of state violence. They create a false story to cover up land grabbing, silence Muslim voices, and make the occupation of Kashmir seem normal, analysts warn.
“Indias Ethnic Erasure“
According to the sources, sixteen homes were searched, dozens detained, and vendors and civilians targeted.
This is what occupation looks like. Raids are staged, weapons are planted, and media headlines are used to build public support. Sixteen homes were searched, dozens arrested, and 23 alleged OGW sites were shown as “exposed.”
SIM vendors were targeted, and whole neighbourhoods sealed off, and all of this to distract from growing anger at home and abroad. The claimed “350 kg of explosives” and AK-47s appear to be made up, say analysts. The story came first; the evidence came later.
Analysts have criticised the move, saying that this is what occupation looks like. It involves all: Staged raids, planted weapons, and news channels are repeating the same script over and over again. These actions aim to hide growing anger at home and criticism abroad, observers say.
India’s plan in Kashmir is clear, Analysts say. First, it removed Article 370 and changed the law to allow outsiders to settle in the valley. Then, it used AFSPA and the PSA to give soldiers immunity and to jail critics without trial.
Journalists are silenced, politicians are jailed, and fake encounters are passed off as “security operations” in the region. This situation is severely alarming, say the Analyst.
Ethnic Erasure
Ethnic erasure is when a group’s existence, culture, or identity is deliberately erased or suppressed. This can happen through forcing people to adopt a different culture, displacing them from their land, or rewriting history, like in Palestine.
This is not counter-terrorism. It is collective punishment. It is an attempt to erase a people and their identity, warn analysts.
The situation in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) keeps on worsening, and the world must stop looking away.
India must face questions for its actions. There should be independent investigations and the release of political prisoners. Kashmir’s right to self-determination must be respected.
