Thousands of people in the remote region of Ladakh have been protesting for over two weeks in freezing temperatures, demanding constitutional provisions from the Indian government to protect their territory’s fragile ecology and to have autonomy over land and agriculture decisions.
People from Ladakh participate in a protest demanding statehood for their mountainous region in New Delhi, India, Sunday, March 24, 2024. People from Ladakh participate in a protest demanding statehood for their mountainous region in New Delhi, India, Sunday, March 24, 2024. Sonam Wangchuk, lying under blankets, is surrounded by supporters on the 17th day of his hunger strike seeking protected status for the region’s people, land and ecology in Leh, India, Friday, March 22, 2024.
Wangchuk, also an engineer working on solutions for sustainability at his Himalayan Institute of Alternative Ladakh, has called his protest a“climate fast.” Ladakh’s thousands of glaciers, which helped dub the rugged region one of the “water towers of the world,” are receding at an alarming rate, threatening the water supply of millions of people. The melting has been exacerbated by an increase in local pollution that has worsened due to the region’s militarization, further intensified by the deadly military standoff between India and China since 2020.
Wangchuk said the Ladakh nomads were also losing prime pastureland to huge Indian industrial plans and Chinese encroachment. The region’s shepherds complain that Chinese soldiers have captured multiple pasturelands and restricted them from grazing their herds.
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