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| State Police's Confidential Report | | Terrorists' background | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, June 11: J&K Police's Criminal Investigation Department's 74-page confidential report, titled "Radicalization and Terrorism in J&K -- Study" contains interesting information on those who joined terrorist ranks to get the "status quo in J&K broken. The report is based on a study conducted on 156 Kashmiri Muslim youth, who joined terrorist ranks between 2010 and 2015". Some contents of the reports are in public domain only for a few days now.
As said, the report gives inputs as regards the socio-economic and educational background of those who joined terrorist ranks. The report says that new militant "recruits not driven by ideologically" and "most attended government schools".
The report, inter-alia, has said: (1) "32 per cent of youths who joined militancy had passed Class X' 19 per cent were undergraduates and graduates while post-graduates constitute 7 per cent, while the remaining 7 per cent were without any education; (2) nobody had studied in a full time Madrasa and 74 per cent had never visited Darsgah or Madrasa for any formal education; (3) 56 per cent had studied in government schools, 34 per cent had studied in both government and private schools and 6 per cent had studied in private schools; (4) 90 per cent of the 156 militants were unmarried; (5) only 8 per cent had some gainful employment; (6) 72 per cent had no criminal background; (7) 71 per cent were Hanafiya in their religious inclination and only about 3 per cent were Salafi and about 23 per cent had Jamaat-i-Islami leanings; (7) only 8 per cent of recruits were also stone pelters; (8) 65 per cent showed religious inclination before joining militancy while 10 per cent were academically inclined and 3 per cent were drug addicts and 22 per cent were vagabonds; (9) 23 per cent had first became Over Ground Workers (OGW) before joining militant ranks. And of these, half joined militancy within a year; (10) out of the 156 militants, 19 per cent were detained before joining militancy, 4 per cent were in detention for 6 months, 7 per cent detained for between 6 and 12 months, another 7 per cent between 1 to 5 years and One percent had been jailed for more than five years before becoming a militant; (11) around 15 per cent had either a family member, relative or a close friend killed in counter-insurgency action; (12) 19 per cent reported having been occasionally arrested, beaten and harassed (by police or security forces); (13) 5 per cent had suffered some kind of collateral damage to their property during counter-insurgency operations; (14) 25 per cent of youths had access to social media in 2010 and 2011 which rose to 30 per cent by 2014 and 70 per cent in 2015; (15) out of the 156 militant recruits, 81 per cent lived in areas which had active local militants already present in the area; and (16) 21 per cent had a monthly family income between Rs 10,000 and Rs 20,000, 23 per cent had between Rs 5,000 and Rs 10,000, 21 per cent had below Rs 5,000. Only 4 per cent had a family income of more than Rs 50,000". |
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