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Aug 25, 2019 • 13 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
#Kashmir thread: It’s been 20 days since India unilaterally revoked #Article370, flew in thousands of troops, imposed an unprecedented communications blackout & curfew-like conditions. Starting a thread on all of the @washingtonpost coverage of the issue here -
On Aug 5, India revokes special status of Kashmir. The decision and its stealthy implementation are likely to further damage New Delhi’s relationship with its most restive state and ignite unrest there. 

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While the news made headlines globally, a day later, there had been almost no word from inside Kashmir, a situation many described as a “siege.”

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My first ground dispatch from Srinagar was on the Soura protest the government denied took place. We found video footage, multiple eyewitnesses and injured which contradicted the govt stand.

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.@jslaternyc writes on how with the Kashmir decision PM Modi undid seven decades of history in a single day, taking India into uncharted territory

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For over a week no one had seen or heard from the mainstream political leaders in Kashmir all of whom are detained. I tried to track them down in Srinagar

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Pamela Constable writes from Pakistan on how India’s decision left its nuclear-armed neighbour stunned
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Over 4 days in Srinagar, I saw firsthand that despite the quiet on the streets, Kashmiris are seething with resentment and claims of 'normalcy' patently false

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On Independence Day, @jslaternyc wrote about Modi’s Kashmir gamble. “The way Modi executed the decision on Kashmir indicates what his “new India” might look like.” 

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On Aug 19 as India announced an easing of some restrictions in Kashmir, things remained far from normal
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Our video verification team fact-checked Indian government’s claims on ‘normalcy’ in Kashmir
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The Post’s Editorial on Kashmir (with an excerpt from my dispatch) asked: “If the goal is so virtuous, why does it require such censorship, imprisonment and force?”
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In this episode of the #PostReports podcast, we spoke to @martinepowers about the turmoil in Kashmir washingtonpost.com/podcasts/post-…

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Feb 11, 2022
Thread on our latest #BhimaKoregaon investigation: @SentinelOne dug into phishing emails received by Rona Wilson to piece together how he was targeted. What they found was startling: Two distinct groups attacked him in the same time period. 1/n washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/…
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The primary group, that report calls ModifiedElephant, planted evidence on his laptop including the letter about plot to kill the PM. This group shared infrastructure with a known hacker, Hangover, that researchers have long suspected of state-sanctioned political espionage. 3/n
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BREAKING: Introducing the Pegasus Project: a collaborative investigation involving more than 80 journalists on 4 continents showing how powerful spyware licensed only to governments targeted journalists, activists and more. (1/n) washingtonpost.com/investigations…
The phones appeared on a list of over 50,000 numbers concentrated in countries known to engage in surveillance of their citizens and known to have been clients of the Israeli firm, NSO Group, a leader in the growing and largely unregulated private spyware industry. 2/n
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Jul 6, 2021
THREAD on malware attacks in Bhima Koregaon:
1/Lawyer Surendra Gadling was sent three emails with malware in Feb 2016 from email IDs of people he knew that were either compromised or forged. washingtonpost.com/world/2021/07/…
2/Through the malware, the attacker had access to Gadling's computer, including sites he browsed, emails he composed & documents he edited.
3/One such malware email received by Gadling is marked to two other defendants – Stan Swamy and Sudha Bharadwaj. If they clicked on the attachment, similar malware would have been deployed on their devices.
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Jul 22, 2020
1/Scathing report by the Forum for human rights in Kashmir, led by retd J. Madan Lokur.
On edu: Schools and colleges functioned
for barely 100 days between 2019 & 2020. After the pandemic, limiting networks to 2G has made it impossible for online classes to function adequately.
2/Political detentions: Less than a quarter of those detained under the PSA between August 2019 and March 2020 were released. The justifications provided for political detentions were flimsy in the extreme. #Article370
3/Detention of children: SC in its oral remarks on Dec 9, said petitioners should not be overly alarmed if children are detained for a few hours or a day coz in certain situations it is for their good. In law, illegal detentions remain illegal, whatever the quantum of time.
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Jul 19, 2020
Thread: For our latest piece, tried to get monthly death figures for 2019 and 2020 to spot any “excess” deaths. Began with Bombay, where a junior BMC officer obliged within hours. One phone call to a person I had spoken to once before. 1/
The figures for May showed a big spike.
May 2019: 6832
May 2020: 12,963 (Covid deaths 2269)
Later, I called the BMC chief for a comment. He took my call, gave me additional data and answered my questions. 2/
Next I tried Chennai. Data was shared almost immediately (except for June which wasn't an updated figure). 3/
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Jan 5, 2020
Tweet thread on a colony protest: At Defence Colony this morning where residents had planned a meeting on CAA, a dozen or so cops arrived in the park early to dissuade them. RWA president said disperse as "In this colony we don't like such type of things"
The gathered residents including some elderly ladies said they had simply come to talk amongst themselves. Police said you don't have permission. Residents asked what stopped people from coming into their own park to talk.
A female lawyer explaining the law was heckled by a gentleman who said "Don't talk about Assam. This is Delhi." She said "Assam is also a part of India." As the arguments got heated, some of the girls began to sing the national anthem. The gentleman contd to speak above that.
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