Images, videos and reports from international media outlets of protest rallies in the Kashmir Valley denouncing the abrogation of Article 370 have raised a storm on social media in India. The government has accused the BBC of fabricating a video that showed thousands marching in the Saura region of Srinagar where police opened fire on protesters, injuring dozens of people.
A week-long communications blackout, and an acquiescent national press that was busy parroting the state narrative, had allowed the government to effectively build an image of calm in the Kashmir Valley. Until the prying foreign media came along and pooped the party.
