London: Four years have passed since changes to domicile laws in Indian-administered Kashmir, which are described as an Indian attempt to erase Kashmiri identity. According to a report by the Kashmir Centre, human rights experts and Kashmiri groups have expressed serious concern over the controversial 'Reorganization Act' and new domicile laws implemented in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir on April 1, 2020, calling them a modern form of 'genocide.'The report, shared on social media, refers to the ideas of legal scholar Raphael Lemkin, who coined the term 'genocide.' It states that genocide does not only mean large-scale killing. According to Lemkin, the destruction of a nation's culture, occupation of their lands, deliberate displacement of the majority population, and erasure of their identity are also recognized forms of genocide.The report further explains that on April 1, 2020, India enforced a legal order aimed at bringing a large influx of outside settlers into Indian-administered Kashmir. Th rough this law, the last remaining protections regarding land, jobs, and the future of Kashmiris have been taken away.Analysts say that bringing an external population into a region and settling them in place of indigenous people, reducing them to a minority, is called 'settler colonialism,' which in essence is another form of genocide. These measures by India are aimed at eliminating the Muslim-majority identity of Kashmir and permanently altering the demographic composition of the region in violation of international laws.It is worth noting that since these laws came into effect on April 1, 2020, domicile certificates have been issued to hundreds of thousands of non-locals, which Kashmiris consider a direct attack on their existence and identity.