Indian officials continue to telephonically torment the residents of Jammu and Kashmir, because we all know the best way to settle a disputed territory is to treat every single person in it like terrorists. We previously reported on the ban of mobile phones across the state, cutting ten million people off for “security purposes.” Five days ago the ban was lifted, albeit under new sales regulations which treat phones like firearms, but officials yanked communications away again this morning by jamming all mobile phones networks across the state. On India’s Republic Day. Imagine cutting off communications in Dublin on St Patrick’s Day, with triple the number of people, to get some sense of scale.
The Indo-Asian News Service was told “This has been done for security reasons.” There were claims of terrorist plans targeting the celebrations, and authorities decided that the chance of maybe disrupting a professional cell’s communications for a minute was worth the certainty of disrupting everyone else who dared to come celebrate their country’s national holiday. When two other nations (Pakistan and China) are permanently battling to take a state away from you, perhaps announcing that you consider everyone in it a criminal might not be the best PR tactic.
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