Tension in India: Government tightened security in Kashmir region after separatist leader died

Indian authorities tightened security in Kashmir on Wednesday, following news of the death of one of the most famous pro-independence leaders, Syed Ali Geelani, at the age of 92, said locals.

According to these sources, the army installed barbed wire and high barricades in the streets adjacent to Geelani’s house in Srinagar, the main city of Cashmere India, where the man wore 11 years under house arrest.

Hundreds of members of the security forces have been deployed and, according to the media, a curfew. Internet access will also be cut.

From a mosque near Geelani’s house, an appeal was made for the population to come to his home, but armored vehicles and trucks patrolled the streets in this area, while the police urged people not to leave their homes.

Geelani, a tireless opponent of the authority of New Delhi in this region of Himalayas Muslim majority, divided between India and Pakistan since 1947 he had been ill for months.

He has fought for the merger of Indian Kashmir with the Pakistani side since the 1960s and spent ten years in prison starting in 1962.

Over half a million Indian soldiers They are deployed in this region, the scene of two of the three wars that India and Pakistan have waged since the independence of the two states.

Since the revocation of the autonomy of Indian Kashmir in August 2019, the locally elected government was replaced by a governor appointed by the central executive and since then new laws have been enforced in the region.

Thousands of people have been detained under a law on public security, which provides that citizens can be jailed for up to two years without the need for formal charges or proceedings.

Peace

Despite several attempts to reach an agreement to resolve the tensions over Kashmir, over which Islamabad and New Delhi demand full control, peace has never succeeded in settling in the region.

The last period of crisis erupted on August 5, 2019, when New Delhi stripped Indian Kashmir of its semi-autonomous status and confined its 7 million inhabitants for months., with severe restrictions on movement, to avoid demonstrations.

Pakistan called the decision a violation of UN Security Council resolutions on Kashmir, he reduced diplomatic relations with India and suspended all trade.

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