Who is carrying out ethnic cleansing man? Dont be blinded by emotions...no indian will go to kashmir and settle there just because it is made a UT...nobody loves to live in a hostile environment.
This article is repealed to bring prosperity to the valley by allowing outside investments and businesses ( so that militancy can be contained) and also keeping the internal security in view.
We have 28 states without any articles like 370..is there any case of any ethnicity being wiped off by any other community? That doesnt happen.another point to be noted is kashmir is not a place with lots of job opportunities...it doesnt offer much for anyone to go and settle there.
You may not think of what international community think ..but a PM of a country cant think like you especially when his economy is in doldrums and he is going around the world for help ..
Give the track record of Indian security forces in Kashmir I'm not optomisitic. 70,000 have been killed since 1989, rape and blinding has been used as a military tactic, there are mass graves. This is not the scenario in any of your other 28 states - none of them have this history.
Most importantly, none of the other 28 states have a population where a significant amount of people want independence. There are seperatist movements all over India but most are limited to the members participating in them. None of them have the same level support as the Kashmir movement does where a majority of the population support it.
Given these condition, i fear we might well see ethnic cleansing at worst, and at least a forced change of the demographics.
Put yourself in the shoes of your leadership. This is a cast iron opportunity to end the Kashmir dispute.
1. Roll in security to control desenters.
2. Slowly bring in jobs and economic opportunity.
3. With the jobs and economic opportunity bring in hindu population.
4. This will cause ethnic violence which gives scope for more security.
5. Discriminate against local population, bring in larger numbers of hindu population with offer of jobs and homes.
This is demographic change. Slowly the new community is backed by cow lynching types - slowly but surely Kashmir becomes unsafe for Kashmiri's, some people fight, others move.
Give it 20-30 years , no more dispute, not enough Kashmiri's left to fight for it.