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| Ugandan Colonel On Jammu Frontiers | | Lesson: Terrorism is Biology, Chemistry not Physics | | ET REPORTER
Jammu, July 3: If you thought that insurgency and counter insurgency is about replying each bullet by a bullet, the theory proves wrong. The arrest of a top soldier from Uganda by the Jammu Police here today reveals the wider and larger connotations of terrorism.
Identified as 42 year old Lieutenant Colonel Rashid Hassan, who is no more serving in the Ugandan Army, was apprehended by the Police in suspicious circumstances. He is been lodged in Satwari Police station for further investigation.
Upon interrogation he said that being a victim of the rebels in his home country, he had come to Jammu and Kashmir to help Army in fighting insurgents. Police believe that he may have been on a reconnaissance assignment to find out the strategic locations in the borders areas. Whatever the truth comes out after investigation, one thing is for sure that the ongoing battle is not an easy thing to understand.
Lt Col Rashid Hassan was staying in India since past 18 months. He has visited Chennai, Mumbai, Delhi, Srinagar and Dehradun, before coming to Jammu.
After his arrest the 42 years old lieutenant colonel was taken to Satwari Police station for interrogation, where senior army and police officials questioned him for hours. During interrogation he revealed that he had come to India to save himself from the rebels in Uganda. "The rebels had killed my father in 1995, who also was a serving major in the same army. My two brothers have also deserted Uganda and are presently camping in Canada", he told the investigating the officers.
After serving Uganda Army for 15 years, he moved from Uganda and went to Sudan from where he moved to South Korea in 1998 and remained there for 6 years, where he joined in a plastic factory as a supervisor and was getting one thousand dollars per month.
"When I went back to Uganda in 2004, the rebels threatened me after which I applied for Indian visa which was denied by the authorities after which I went to Sudan in 2005", he claimed.
However, he told the investigating officers that he got Indian visa in September 2005 and he landed at Mumbai airport with four thousand dollars in his purse. "Since, then I have visited many Indian states including Mumbai, Dehradun, Jaipur, Ajmer, Chennai, Massorie, Delhi and I landed in Jammu Kashmir on July 14, 2007 and went back from Jammu to Delhi on July 28, 2007".
During interrogation he said that on August 2nd he reached Jammu from Delhi by Shalimar Express and met military police at Army Cantonment Area Satwari for job in the Indian Army.
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