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Statement on the Situation in Kashmir 21 September 2019 We Are a Group Statement on the situation in Kashmir 21 September 2019 We are a group of Indian academics and scientists. We are writing to express our deep concern about the crisis in Kashmir that has now persisted for over a month, and which was precipitated by the government’s decision to de-operationalize Article 370 of the Constitution and to end Jammu and Kashmir’s full statehood. Since then, the government has restricted communications in Kashmir, detained opposition leaders and dissidents, and flooded the state with security personnel. As signatories to this statement, we hold various views on the issue of Article 370 and other substantive questions about the conflict in Kashmir. However, we agree on the following points: ● We are appalled by the government’s decision to restrict telecommunications and the internet in Kashmir for over a month. We understand that landlines have been restored in some parts of Kashmir, but since landline teledensity in Kashmir is 1 below 1% according to the government’s own statistics , this measure has failed to provide substantive relief to Kashmir’s residents. In our own institutions, we have witnessed students suffering because they are unable to maintain contact with their families. Moreover, credible reports suggest that these restrictions have made it 2 difficult for ordinary people in Kashmir to procure medical and essential supplies 3 or even for children to attend school. ● We believe the government’s actions in detaining and restricting the communications of opposition leaders and dissidents in Kashmir are deeply undemocratic. Whatever views one might hold about these individuals, a fundamental norm in a democracy is that the party in power does not have the right to lock up its political opponents when they have not even been accused of any crimes. ● We are disturbed by the multiple reports of human rights violations in Kashmir by 4 5 6 Indian security forces. , , 1 Economics Research Unit -- Statistics, Telecom Statistics India (Department of Telecommunications, ​ ​ Government of India, 2018) <dot.gov.in/sites/default/files/statistical Bulletin-2018.pdf> [accessed 18 September 2019]. 2 Vindu Goel, Karan Deep Singh, and Sameer Yasir, ‘India Shut Down Kashmir’s Internet Access. Now, “We Cannot Do Anything.”’, New York Times, 14 August 2019 ​ ​ <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/technology/india-kashmir-internet.html> [accessed 18 September 2019]. 3 Mir Ehsan and Ashiq Hussain, ‘How School Kids in Kashmir Are Coping with Curbs after Article 370 Decision’, Hindustan Times, 12 September 2019 ​ ​ <https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/how-j-k-school-kids-are-coping-with-curbs/story-pspbVxaq gX2EpCruXru3yM.html> [accessed 18 September 2019]. 4 Akash Bisht, ‘Kashmir Lockdown: Stories of Torture and Arbitrary Arrests’, Al Jazeera, 4 September ​ ​ 2019 <https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/kashmir-lockdown-stories-torture-arbitrary-arrests-190904122 016072.html> [accessed 18 September 2019]. 5 AP News Agency, ‘“Electric Shocks, Beatings”: Kashmiris Allege Abuse by India Army’, Al Jazeera, 10 ​ ​ September 2019 <https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/09/shocks-beatings-kashmiris-allege-abuse-india-army-1909101 14145774.html> [accessed 18 September 2019]. 6 Sameer Hashmi, ‘“Don’t Beat Us, Just Shoot Us”: Kashmiris Allege Violent Army Crackdown’, BBC ​ (Kashmir, 29 August 2019) <https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-49481180> [accessed 18 We would like to express our solidarity with the people of Kashmir and offer our support to those outside Kashmir, who have been cut off from their families and friends as a result of these decisions taken by the government of India. We remind the government that it is duty-bound to uphold the rights and protect the welfare of all of its citizens. In line with these obligations, we call on the government to immediately restore full communications in Kashmir, lift the security restrictions that are hampering ordinary life, release dissidents and opposition leaders, and conduct transparent and impartial investigations into the allegations of human rights abuses. List of Signatories (Name and Affiliation) (The institutional affiliations provided here are only for the purpose of identification and do not indicate the official positions of these organizations.) S.No. Name Institution International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of 1 Abhisodh Prakash Fundamental Research International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of 2 Suvrat Raju Fundamental Research International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of 3 Adhip Agarwala Fundamental Research International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of 4 Junaid Majeed Fundamental Research International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of 5 Tuneer Chakraborty Fundamental Research 6 Apratim Ganguly ICTS-TIFR, Bangalore 7 Parita Mehta International Centre for Theoretical Sciences 8 Animesh Nanda ICTS-TIFR 9 Srashti Goyal International Center for Theoretical Sciences 10 Subhadip Chakraborti International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Bengaluru 11 Divya Jaganathan ICTS-TIFR 12 Faizan Bhat ICTS-TIFR Bengaluru 13 Omkar Shetye ICTS 14 Rituparna Ghosh International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of 15 Aditya Kumar Sharma Fundamental Research International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of 16 Md Arif Shaikh Fundamental Research, Bangalore 17 Saientan Bag Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany 18 Zaid Zaz TIFR (Visiting Student) 19 SUBRATA DEV 20 Abhishek Dhar International centre for theoretical sciences, TIFR, Bangalore 21 Sumilan Banerjee Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 22 Aurnab Ghose IISER Pune 23 Shubha Tewari 24 Deepak Malghan Indian Institue of Management Bangalore Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, AEI, Hannover, 25 Sumit Kumar Germany September 2019]. 26 Sharad Lele 27 Bikram Phookun St Stephen's College 28 Abu Anand University of Toronto 29 Rahul Varman IIT Kanpur 30 Siddharth K J Independent Researcher, Bengaluru 31 Bhavtosh Bansal IISER Kolkata 32 Debjani Sengupta IP College, Delhi University 33 U. K. Anandavardhanan IIT Bombay 34 Zoya Hasan Professor Emerita, Jawaharlal Nehru University 35 Ayesha Kidwai Jawaharlal Nehru University 36 Neenu Suresh National Law School of India University, Bangalore 37 Vineeta Bal National Institute of Immunology 38 Joby Joseph University of Hyderabad 39 Kabir Husain University of Chicago 40 Cynthia Stephen Independent researcher 41 Mohini Mullick Retired from IIT-Kanpur 42 Rahul Roy Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi 43 Satyajit Rath (retired) National Institute of Immunology, New Delhi 44 Deeak Kumar Former Professor, JNU 45 Ashis Kumar Nandy NISER Bhubaneswar 46 Alladi Sitaram Indian Statistical Institute(Retdd.) 47 Probal Dasgupta (Retired from) Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata 48 Nilanjan Bondyopadhaya Visva-bharati University, Santiniketan 49 Dr. Raktim Abir Department of Physics, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. 50 Harjinder (Laltu) Singh 51 Madhusudhan Raman TIFR 52 LS Shashidhara IISER Pune and Ashoka University 53 Shanta Laishram Indian Statistical Institute, New Delhi 54 Ronak M Soni Stanford University 55 Shivani Upadhyaya TIFR 56 Prashant Kocherlakota TIFR, Mumbai 57 Vaibhav Vaish IISER Mohali 58 Sumi Krishna Independent scholar 59 Saman Habib CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute 60 Prof.Mohan Rao currently independent researcher 61 Enakshi Bhattacharya IIT Madras 62 Mayurika Lahiri IISER Pune 63 Basabendu Barman IIT Guwahati 64 Nirmali Goswami Tezpur University 65 Archana Prasad Jawaharlal Nehru University 66 R. Geeta Unaffiliated (Retired from Delhi University) 67 Reuben George Stephen ST Microelectronics 68 Rahul Siddharthan The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 69 Surbhi Shrivastava CEHAT 70 Suchitra Mathur IIT Kanpur 71 Koel Das IISER Kolkata 72 Subhashis Banerjee IIT Delhi 73 Sabana Shabnam NISER, Bhubaneswar 74 Ubaid Mushtaq IIT Kharagpur 75 Amit Misra CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow 76 Sk Sazim HRI, Allahabad Indian Institute of Science Education and Research 77 Bijoy John Mathew Thiruvananthapuram 78 Aarti Sethi Harvard University 79 Saikat Ghosh I.I.T.-Kanpur 80 Sunando Kr Patra IIT Guwahati 81 Sandeep Rana NISER Jatni 82 Amber Habib Shiv Nadar University 83 Abhiram Kaushik Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 84 Anuj Mishra Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) 85 Dinesh Kumar Abrol All India Peoples' Science Network 86 Vivek Mehta Tezpur University 87 Alokmay Datta CSIR-CGCRI 88 Simona Sawhney IIT Delhi 89 T R Govindarajan Chennai Mathematical Institute 90 Mahaveer Prasad ICTS-TIFR 91 Samriddhi Sankar Ray ICTS-TIFR 92 Sajad Ahmad Bhat Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics 93 Debaditya Bhattacharya Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal 94 Dr. Anant Phadke Medico Friend Circle 95 Aabhaas Vineet Mallik ICTS (TIFR) 96 Rajat Tandon University of Hyderabad 97 Soumyajit Pramanick Calcutta University 98 Urbashi Satpathi ICTS 99 Vishnu T R Chennai Mathematical Institute 100 Sukanta Bhattacharya Department of Economics, University of Calcutta 101 Priyadarshi Paul ICTS(TIFR) , Bangalore 102 Jagmohan Singh Shaheed Bhagat Singh Research Committee International Centre For Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of 103 Aditya Vijaykumar Fundamental Research 104 Guruprasad Kar Indian Statistical Institute 105 Farman Ullah IISER Pune 106 Arun Karthik B IIT Kanpur 107 Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay 108 ABHIJITH M S IIT Hyderabad 109 Lopamudra Mukherjee IIT Guwahati 110 Aritra Sinha Jagiellonian University,
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