Residents say military buildup at the disputed frontier snatches their sense of safety and rights over land they have owned for generations. “Since three generations, my family has been herding cattle in Demchok, but the conflict deprives us of our grazing rights,” Konchok Ishey, a 43-year-old nomad from the Chushul valley in eastern Ladakh, told Al Jazeera. But the Indian …
