#KashmirNow – Did you know? #India has border ‘issues’ with all of its neighboring countries. It is #Israel of South Asia
Shayan Nabi
SRINAGAR: Kashmir trended at number 3 on social networking site Twitter.com worldwide, thanks to a ‘twitter storm’ package created by the users from Kashmir or the Kashmiri diaspora.
A ‘Twitter storm’ is to overflow the network with tweets.
The main objective of hashtag KashmirNow (#KashmirNow) is to raise awareness in social media regarding the situation in Kashmir.
This after fresh tension over the killing of Muslim protestors by the Border Security Force in Ramban area of the region.
The villager were angry over desecration of the holy Quran and the assault on a local cleric by BSF soldiers.
The twitter trend started Saturday 20 July at 8:30 Pm IST.
Till this report was filed #KashmirNow was trending at number 3 all over the world. It is subject to change.
Some of the tweets:
Massacres = Honest Mistakes. Protesters = Mobs. Killings = Self Defence. Justice = Probes Indian MSM response to #RambanMassacre #KashmirNow
Indian forces carried out RambanMassacre in Kashmir 18/7/13: 8+dead & 45+injured, curfew imposed, internet was killed. #KashmirNow
Arundhati Roy: “#Kashmir is the most densely militarised zone in the world” http://bit.ly/XUrmHX via @democracynow #KashmirNow
#India militarily occupies #Kashmir with 700,000+ Troops and calls itself a ‘democracy’ #KashmirNow
The BSF soldiers fired indiscriminately, left, right and center,” an eyewitness told @afp #RambanMassacre #KashmirNow
This democracy keeps a vampire diary in #Kashmir. | 8 killed. 42 injured. For what? Raising their fists | #RambanMassacre #KashmirNow
The Indian forces will do a ethnic cleansing & shoot us one by one http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/14/security-forces-injure-citizens-in-srinagar-attackskashmir-wounded/ #KashmirNow
#KashmirNow – Did you know? #India has border ‘issues’ with all of its neighboring countries. It is #Israel of South Asia
