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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>India has covered Kashmir's main city with a complicated maze of barbed wire that cuts through neighborhoods and regularly changes layout to control its population as part of its crackdown in the region.</li><li>India's parliament last week voted to cancel two articles in its constitution that guaranteed the state of Jammu and Kashmir's right to make its own laws and prevent outsiders from buying property in the region.</li><li>The wire is accompanied with a curfew and an internet and phone blackout as well as armed police, steel barricades, drones, and helicopters.</li><li>One expert said the maze is designed to "psychologically break people and teach them that they're not in control of their own bodies." while Pakistan, which also claims Kashmir, accused India of "ethic cleansing."</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories</a>.</li></ul>India is controlling people in Kashmir during its unprecedented lockdown by using barricades, armed police, and an elaborate maze of razor wire that changes configuration several times a day.The state's main city, Srinagar, has now been covered with a maze of razor wire and steel barricades with authorities changing the entrance and exit locations multiple times a day, leaving residents confused, <a href="https://www.apnews.com/aa7048cf325646298fb773d7cb12d3b6">The Associated Press reported</a> on Wednesday. India last week cancelled two articles in its constitution that guaranteed the state of Jammu and Kashmir's right to make its own laws and prevent outsiders from buying property in the region. This was coupled with a curfew and a communications blackout that shut off internet and phone access.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div>The elaborate network has a one-way system that prevents people from returning home in the same direction that they first travelled through it. It cuts through neighborhoods and blocks some roads, the AP said.Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kashmir-india-accuse-bbc-reuters-lying-about-protests-despite-video-2019-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">India accused the BBC and Reuters of lying about large-scale protests in Kashmir, even though they were recorded on video</a>One resident, Zameer Ahmed, told the AP that the wire network is "so vast, so expansive.""The entire Srinagar city has been knitted in razor wire to seek our silence and obedience."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div>The wire is accompanied by armed soldiers in riot gear, as well as helicopters patrolling overhead, the AP reported.The city has a majority Muslim population, many of whom are concerned that India's recent moves will see an influx of Hindus, altering the cultural and religious makeup of the city.One resident told the AP that the system was the "smartest blockade" he had seen in the region over 30 years, compared to previous efforts by India. He said it was less violent than other efforts but still prevented people from voicing their opposition."If you must, they also allow you to venture out of home, yet they've throttled our voice by such a sophisticated blockade," he said.<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div>And another resident said: "They've changed the road map of our city, trying to make us like strangers in our own neighborhoods."Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kashmir-lockdown-food-medical-care-2019-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">People in Kashmir are struggling to find access to food and medical care under a communications blackout and strict lockdown</a>Saiba Varma, a researcher at the the University of California, San Diego, who is looking at Srinagar, said the method was designed to "psychologically break people and teach them that they're not in control of their own bodies.""They're letting people eat but trying to control Kashmiri bodies, minds and spirits."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div>The altered laws introduced by India's parliament will let Indian citizens buy property in the state, which critics say could be an effort to change the state's demographics.The Jammu and Kashmir state is actually a smaller part of the Kashmir region, which has been divided between India and Pakistan since the two countries gained independence from British rule in 1947. Both countries claim the territory in its entirety, and have fought three wars over it.Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan <a href="https://twitter.com/ImranKhanPTI/status/1160460575454957568?s=20">said on Sunday</a> that India was trying "to change demography of Kashmir through ethnic cleansing." He said that the curfew and "impending genocide" was inspired by "Nazi ideology" and compared global inaction on the issue to ignoring Hitler. <div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image"></div></div></div>Indian diplomats <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kashmir-blackout-locals-dont-know-india-revoked-autonomy-report-2019-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">accused</a> Pakistan last week of trying to "present an alarming picture to the world."Read more: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/india-modi-bear-grylls-man-vs-wild-amid-kashmir-crisis-2019-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">Indian Prime Minister Modi appears with Bear Grylls on 'Man vs. Wild' as he cuts off Kashmir's food and internet for 9th day</a>Police in the Jammu and Kashmir state <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/08/11/india-promises-ease-kashmir-curfew-pakistan-accuses-new-delhi/">defended</a> their moves on Sunday, saying that "not a single bullet had been fired in the last six days," and said that protests in the state were small and stopped without violence.Thousands of people <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kashmir-india-accuse-bbc-reuters-lying-about-protests-despite-video-2019-8?r=US&amp;IR=T">protested the Indian government</a> in Srinagar on Friday, and that the police used tear gas to disperse them, Reuters and the BBC reported. India said that protests did not exceed 20 people, though the BBC had video footage of the large protests.Pakistan asked the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday for an urgent meeting about the region. India has consistently argued that the dispute is a regional issue, that does not warrant outside influence.

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