*SRINAGAR: Thousands of Kashmiris have protested against Indian forces inOccupied Kashmir despite a curfew after India stripped the occupied valleyof its special status through a presidential decree , a video tweeted byBBC South Asia showed on Saturday.*
BBC South Asia Bureau Chief Nicola Careem shared a video on micro-bloggingwebsite Twitter showing how people in the Occupied Kashmir are protestingagainst the Indian move and are bravely facing Indian forces in the region.
“Despite government saying reports of protests in Saura were completelyfabricated. Thousands marched, police fired on protesters, dozens injured,”wrote Careem while tweeting the video.
Sources also say that thousands of people have staged rallies, despitecurfew in the occupied valley, against India for revoking Kashmir’sspecial status. They were chanting slogans in favor of Pakistan and theirright to self determination.
Earlier, a Reuters report too confirmed that despite curfew and worsthumans rights violations by India, At least 10,000 people protested againstDelhi’s withdrawal of special rights for Muslim-majority Occupied Kashmirlink in its main cityof Srinagar.
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Kashmiri leaders had warned of a backlash in the area, where freedomfighters have been battling the Indian rule for nearly 30 years, leading tothe martyrdom of more than 50,000 people.
A large group of people gathered in Srinagar’s Soura area, a police officersaid, in violation of orders that prohibit the assembly of more than fourpeople.
The crowd was pushed back by police at Aiwa bridge, where a witness saidtear gas and pellets were used against them.
India this week scrapped Occupied Jammu and Kashmir’s right to frame itsown laws and allowed non-residents to buy property there.