{"id":21392,"date":"2020-08-06T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/aug\/05\/devastating-siege-kashmir-colony-india-crushing-dissent"},"modified":"2020-08-06T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T15:00:04","slug":"a-year-on-from-a-devastating-siege-kashmir-is-being-turned-into-a-colony-mirza-waheed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=21392","title":{"rendered":"A year on from a devastating siege, Kashmir is being turned into a colony | Mirza Waheed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since erasing the region\u2019s special status India is selling off its rich land and mineral rights \u2013 and crushing all dissent<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mirza Waheed is a novelist and essayist<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I\u2019m sure many people have heard of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina. It\u2019s a movement of Argentinian women who staged a silent protest against the disappearance of their children during the military dictatorships of the 1970s and 80s.<\/p>\n<p>From 1977 to about 2006, they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/apr\/28\/mothers-plaza-de-mayo-argentina-anniversary\">gathered at the Plaza de Mayo<\/a> in Buenos Aires and wore white headscarves embroidered with the names and dates of birth of their children \u2013 demanding answers from the state. It was a bleak form of protest, but it succeeded in getting the generals and police officers prosecuted and punished for crimes against humanity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/aug\/05\/devastating-siege-kashmir-colony-india-crushing-dissent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since erasing the region\u2019s special status India is selling off its rich land and mineral rights \u2013 and crushing all dissentMirza Waheed is a novelist and essayistI\u2019m sure many people have heard of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina. It\u2019s a mo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":391,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,62,447,432,433,80,371,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-india","category-islam","category-kashmir","category-narendra-modi","category-protest","category-religion","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/391"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21393,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21392\/revisions\/21393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}