Kashmiris are crying... but in vain

I was aware the situation in Kashmir was deteriorating but I had not appreciated the cumulative nature of the problem

Perhaps because we are inured to bad news from Kashmir, many people don’t realise how sharply the situation has deteriorated since 2014. Yet the facts have been reported by a variety of papers on a pretty regular basis. It’s just that we’ve either ignored them or haven’t properly understood them.

So let’s start with the facts. The ones I’m about to refer to have been collated from a wide selection of newspapers as well as from well-informed research websites like the South Asia Terrorism Portal. On occasion, I will even quote the state government and the police. 

Between 2015 and 2017 terrorist