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India’s government announced the creation of the Village Defence Guard in 2022, a civil militia trained to fight rebels in the Muslim-majority Kashmir it controls. It was established by the Hindu nationalist government in a bid to crush a decades-long independence insurgency. But some worry that the move will only worsen the region’s security woes.

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