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Early Times Report
SRINAGAR, Sept 7: The government of India (GoI) is scrutinising social media in restive Kashmir valley as it has reports that the ongoing unrest is being remote controlled by disruptive elements via the social media.
A recent ground report prepared by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has mentioned how the social media including Facebook and Twitter is being used by the separatists to instigate people to take to streets and hold anti-India protests.
The MHA report says that provocative pictures and videos are uploaded and circulated on the social media to fan the fires. Furthermore, there are scores of fake accounts operational on Facebook and Twitter which are handled by the separatist groups to incite youth. On Whatsapp too, there are groups created which circulate information about protests and clashes taking place in every corner of the Valley.
Reports inform that the security grid too has already expressed concern over militants making wide use of social media in Kashmir and striving to radicalise youth via various social media sites.
Pertinently, Hizb commander Burhan Wani was made a poster boy of Kashmir's militancy by virtue of social media only. Circulating videos and posing for pictures with assault rifles on social media has become a norm in present day militancy in Kashmir. Burhan's successor Zakir alias Musa too toed the line and uploaded his video on social media. He asked people to continue the protest demonstrations and not to give up. "The present day militancy is survived by the glamour- something that was missing since its onset in Kashmir. It is the social media that has provided a vital pedestal to the militants to romanticise their ideas. It is concerning," says a social media user.
Meanwhile, to pacify the present day unrest, security grid has been asked to tighten noose around those who have been using the social media as their propaganda machine for the violent activities.
Also, among the series of reasons jotted down by the security analysts about the present cycle of violence, usage of social media is topping the list. From clashes to stone throwing to uploading pictures of injured and those killed, on social media is proving worrisome for the dispensation.
A police official revealed how it has become difficult to control the social media amid the current wave of unrest. "Sometimes there are pictures as old as three years which are uploaded with the caption of present day. There are videos getting viral in an instant and prove detrimental in taming the peoples' anger," he said.
According to survey conducted by the security agencies, accessibility to social media in Kashmir Valley was 25 per cent in 2010, which rose to 30 per cent in 2014 and sharply escalated to 70 per cent in 2015. The report maintained that the glamorisation of the gun and violence gets acceptance in a small section of young, impressionable minds who consider themselves at the receiving end in the contemporary political scenario. |
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