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| Intensify counter insurgency operations only way to tame militancy in Kashmir | | | Knowing that since the formation of the
PDP-BJP coalition government militants have created a safe haven in south Kashmir which used to be a stronghold of the PDP. And during the last three years south Kashmir belts, including Tral, Shopian and Kulgam, have witnessed series of militancy related incidents. Prior to the formation of the coalition government Baramulla-Kupwara-Sopore used to be the centre of militancy related incidents indicating that militants have shifted their base in order to weaken the PDP which has forged an alliance with the right wing BJP. And besides the police, the Army have been devising ways and means to eliminate militants who have created problems for the state government. Even the Army Chief, Gen. Bipin Rawat, has been favouring counter insurgency operations which, he has found, the only way to tackle militancy. What has come as a shock to the state authorities is the way police have been made the target of militant attacks and recently one policeman was killed and another was injured. Prior to this incidents there have been many such attacks on the police posts and stations where many jawans have been killed and injured and at times the militants have succeeded in snatching rifles and other weapons from the police.
And the Army Chief has, during his visit to eastern sector in Ladakh, given clearance to the Army to step up their fight against militants. In fact his suggestion, rather order, to troops has been to act like eagles and attack birds who have taken shelter in bushes and shrubs. Accordingly a massive operations were carried out against militants in which 13 militants, including top commanders, have been killed in ongoing operations in south Kashmir's Anantnag and Shopian."In Shopian's Draggad, seven bodies of militants have been recovered, including top commanders. One militant was killed in Anantnag's Dialgam after efforts of the family and the Jammu and Kashmir Police fail to make him surrender, and one militant was caught alive," said Director General of Police (DGP) S.P. Vaid. Three soldiers were martyred in the operations. The DGP said a few civilian are trapped in a separate encounter in Shopian's Kachdoora. "The efforts are on to rescue them," said the DGP.
It's the first time that the security forces in South Kashmir have carried out counter-insurgency operations on such a scale. All the operations were launched at the crack of the dawn in parts of south Kashmir, which saw over 20 fresh recruitments of locals into militancy this year. Around 250 militants are active in J&K, according to the official data. The militant killings have pushed South Kashmir on the edge. At least a dozen protesters were injured as locals clashed with the security forces. Internet and railway services have been suspended in South Kashmir. This is a new development which poses a new threat to peace process in Kashmir. And the new trend is to protest against militant killings and the protesters invariably clash with the security forces giving another setback to anti-militancy operations. And whenever militants are carried to the burial grounds again it is greeted with slogan shouting crowds ready to clash with the security forces and the police. These protesters are not scared even if the security forces resort to heavy lathi charge or tear smoke or even firing in the air. They know that once a couple of people get killed or injured in firing it is greeted with bitter criticism of the security forces forcing them to suspend anti-insurgency operations. These protesters know it that the only way to stop counter insurgency operations to hold strong protests against killing of militants and the only way for the Army is to continue with these operations despite nerve racking protests from the youth. |
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