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| Army officer takes bull by horns | | Says, coercion can't achieve peace in Kashmir | | Jammu, Aug 12: Taking the Army establishment as well as the political leadership by surprise, a top Army officer said that tough and coercive measures will not help achieve peace in Kashmir.
Speaking at a seminar on Human Right organized by an Army unit in Baramulla on Saturday, Brig K A Muthanna, a commander of a Rashtriya Rifles said that "Fake encounters, custodial deaths, illegal detentions and coercive investigation techniques are some of the gravest forms of human rights abuses". Observing that the Indian Army was the first in the world to establish its own human rights cell, a senior army official has said peace in Jammu and Kashmir cannot be achieved by resorting to coercive investigation techniques.
He said no army in the world has succeeded in combating militancy and achieving sustainable peace by adopting these methods.
"Nothing can be more contradictory than we as soldiers transgressing human rights and undoing the gradual and painstaking peace efforts undertaken since the birth of insurgency. Any act of violation has to be accountable. Putting an end to the culture of impunity is also a step forward in promotion of human rights," Muthanna said.
The seminar attended by prominent citizens and police and army officers, addressed important issues, including problems faced by the common man in the present situation.
Major General Rajinder Singh, General Officer Commanding of the counter-insurgency force, said the army was committed to upholding human rights at a time when such a notion was alien to the world.
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