3,000 homes bulldozed, 27,000 people displaced in IIOJK, India in 6 months
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Srinagar: The people of Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and Muslims in India are facing a systematic campaign of house demolitions and forced displacement, as the Modi-led regime uses bulldozers as tools of oppression under the guise of “security” and “development.”
According to a report released by Kashmir Media Service, today, India has so far demolished 38 houses of innocent Kashmiri people on different pretexts during the current year. Rights groups say the demolitions are part of a broader settler-colonial policy aimed at altering the territory’s demography and silencing resistance to Indian occupation.
The pattern of destruction mirrors colonial tactics seen in Palestine, where forced evictions and demographic engineering are used to consolidate control.
In IIOJK, homes are razed without notice, legal procedures, or rehabilitation, as Indian forces target residential areas under the pretext of anti-encroachment drives and security operations.
The Modi regime’s claim of “restoring normalcy” in the territory stands exposed by these grim realities. Bulldozers have become instruments of collective punishment, and ordinary people continue to pay the price for demanding freedom and dignity.
Rights defenders have condemned the silence of the international community, noting that India’s actions in IIOJK resemble the Zionist regime’s practices in occupied Palestine. Both Hindutva and Zionism, they said, are twin colonial ideologies rooted in the displacement and dispossession of Muslims from their homeland.
In the first six months of 2025 alone, over 3,000 Muslim homes were bulldozed and more than 27,000 people displaced across India and IIOJK, leaving entire communities homeless and traumatized. The selective nature of the demolitions—targeting Muslim-majority localities—reveals that this is not administrative oversight but a deliberate occupation strategy.
Observers say India’s anti-Muslim actions in IIOJK reflect settler-colonial patterns: homes are demolished to displace indigenous Kashmiris, reshape the population, and instill fear, thereby waging a silent war against civilians. Despite the suffering, Kashmiris continue to resist India’s illegal occupation and its attempts to erase their identity.
The report concludes that these demolitions are part of a state-sponsored campaign to permanently transform the demographic character of IIOJK. Kashmiris, however, remain steadfast, asserting that no amount of repression can erase their struggle for self-determination and freedom.
