The Oppression Continues.

Indian Occupied Kashmir has been brutalised for years, but since the lockdown in August last year, Indian security forces have become even more inhumane. Wednesday's incident is a visible manifestation of the value of Kashmiri citizens to the Indian state. A man lay on the side of the road while his murderers placed his three-year-old grandson on his bullet-ridden corpse for a grotesque photo-op.

If the videos of a young boy recounting this harrowing tale do not stir anger at the injustice of what took place, our collective conscience is as good as dead. As always, in the perpetuation of this senseless violence, the Indian state is only giving Kashmiris more cause to take up arms against their oppressors and take their struggle for freedom towards a successful conclusion.

The reality of Kashmir is that human rights as a concept seems to be inapplicable and life is considered to be dispensable so long as it promotes political gain. Ever since January 2020, 229 men, women and children have been killed mercilessly by the increasingly violent and territorial...