Jammu Kashmir TV reports that one-million British Kashmiris have already started boycotting Indian goods without waiting for a formal call. When products don’t sell, shopkeepers lower the price to unload them, & then they stop importing them. Like this Indian rice in a UK shop.

We don’t have to wait for a formal call (while that option is being pursued) to stop buying all Indian products which are ubiquitous in health stores, supermarkets, speciality & gift shops, clothing, fabrics & textiles, beauty products, foodstuffs, especially rice & grains, pharmaceuticals, electronics, Bollywood films. Consider how much economic power can be brought to bear on India to fortify Kashmiri resistance. Bring that boycott on!

(Photo from Jammu Kashmir TV)

India calls this resistance to their colonial onslaught ‘normal’ when it looks more like a revolution.

A video of the Birmingham, UK #StandWithKashmir rally today just to show the large scale of these protests for Kashmir.

Manchester, UK #StandWithKashmir rally, August 31, 2019. This movement is not going away.

This piece from Restless Beings, a UK human rights organization, will be of great value in understanding what the Indian government is doing in its northeast state of Assam where it just made two-million citizens stateless. It is via Mabrur Ahmed, a representative of Restless Beings, who just gave a brilliant presentation at the South Korea conference about the character & organization of the boycott of Burma called by Rohingya activists & their supporters.

https://www.restlessbeings.org/assam-crisis/?

This is an outstanding comparison of the differences between international & Indian media reporting about Kashmir. Let its power speak for itself.

Sheffield, UK #StandWithKashmir rally, August 31st, 2019.

There is a report today that armed militants shot & killed a shopkeeper in Srinagar for keeping his shop open. Since there are war-equipped Indian soldiers every few feet & checkpoints all over the city where pedestrians are continually frisked & where even ambulances can’t move freely, it is highly unlikely that militants carrying even small arms are able to get about the city, let alone get away after shooting a shopkeeper. That report should be filed under “Lies the Indian Army tells about Kashmiris.”

The Indian Army is going to try the same malignant divide & conquer crap in Kashmir that the US & European colonial powers have done for decades in the Middle East, with Iraq being the matrix & very training ground. Using collaborators & undercover operatives, they will attempt to foster dissension between the different denominations of Islam & between Muslims, Sikhs, & Pandits. Kashmiri human rights leader Khurram Parvez once pointed out that in Kashmir, Sunni, Shia, Wahabi, & other religious groups march as one against the occupation. Not if the Indian Army can help it. Divide & conquer will be their fundamental strategy. The primary force against that is the experience, judgement, brilliance of Kashmiri resistance, both its activists & leaders. It won’t be that easy because Kashmiris will not willingly be played against each other & know the score from seeing divide & conquer played out in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Yemen, & elsewhere.

UPDATE: Satyadeep Satya took the fun out of this story completely by showing that the “War & Peace” book was not the one by Tolstoy but “War & Peace in Junglemahal” by Indian journalist Biswajit Roy.
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A man was called before the high court in Mumbai to defend why he had Tolstoy’s “War & Peace” in his home–what the judge called ‘a book about war in another country’. The prosecutor found it incriminating evidence along with other books & CDs because “The title itself suggests it has something against the state.”

One man on Twitter responded: “Most people have War & Peace in their homes because they have been trying to finish it for 10 years.” I myself have been trying for over 50 years.

Any official agency that goes beyond silence about Kashmir to ‘taking notice’ or ‘expressing concern’ will focus their concern solely on India & Pakistan resolving their ‘territorial dispute’ over Kashmir so there won’t be a nuclear war. The emergent Kashmiri solidarity movement brings together the only ones making concern for the safety & well-being of the Kashmiri people the entire focus of our concerns. We cannot underestimate our importance to the Kashmiri struggle now that they are forcibly silenced. Nothing will be the same until we hear their powerful voices again.