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“Stone in my hand”

By Huma Dar | Pulse Media | July 21, 2010

The video above — put together by an unknown young person and set to the Everlast song, “Stone in My Hand” — is a short montage documenting the current popular protests in Kashmir Valley against the Indian occupation.  The video above has prompted the Indian Security Forces to “launch a manhunt” for the filmmaker, such is the state’s fear of freedom of expression.  Facebook users from the Valley are under the Indian government’s surveillance and the Police have cited many and threatened even more users with imprisonment for uploading images and videos documenting the ongoing protests.  Armed with Frantz Fanon’s writings, Agha Shahid Ali and Faiz Ahmad Faiz’s poetry, and sometimes with stones, the youth of Kashmir update their Facebook status as a means of instantaneous information-sharing, especially when the “[t]he owners of newspapers in Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir … suspended production because of curbs imposed by the government,” as reported by BBC.

July 21, 2010 - Posted by | Illegal Occupation, Timeless or most popular, Video

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