That was the Modi regime's very objective: black out Kashmiris, and in the process, strip them of the ability to document their daily struggles under Indian occupation. Roya, and scores of activists and students, journalists and academics, were disarmed of their final weapon. Once that last line of communication to the external world had been stripped away, the door was open for the Indian regime to beat innocents in the street, ransack homes and mosques, jail activists and journalists, and extrajudicially kill anybody who sought to resist the terror.

XREF: Connects to broader literature on authoritarian communication blackouts and how information suppression precedes or enables human rights abuses, as seen in other conflict zones like Myanmar and Xinjiang.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 510