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| Who will compensate 4,000 injured security force personnel? | | STARK REALITY -- II | | RUSTAM
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sep 28: The powers-that-be in the state, particularly the Chief Minister, and in New Delhi, “human rights” activists, a few perverted think-tanks and biased media persons are feeling highly disturbed over the killings in Kashmir. They are also disturbed because approximately 500 arsonists, rioters, violators of law and separatist got injured. Every right thinking person would regret the loss of human lives. Nobody would also like the people confronting the security forces and the state police because such clashes ultimately culminate in deaths and injuries on both sides. Leave aside a couple of aberrations here and there and such aberrations do take place in conflict zones.
But the question is: What about those poor 4,000 security force personnel and policemen who got wounded, some of them vary seriously? According to reports, hundreds and hundreds of the injured cops and security force personnel are undergoing treatment in various hospitals, located in the troubled-Kashmir. And, what about the immense damage the rioters, arsonists, boulder-throwers and separatists caused during all these three months or so of the engineered deadly violence.
It would not be out of place to refer here to the police version that explains everything, including the nature of what the unruly elements and Pakistani agents did in Kashmir. According to the state police, “its personnel, along with the paramilitary CRPF, have been at the receiving end…as one cop was killed and over 4,000 security forces personnel injured while dealing with the stone-pelters.” “The recent mob violence in the Valley has resulted in death of one policeman and injuries to over 2,600 police personnel while 29 police stations and police posts were set ablaze by the unruly crowds,” a police spokesman said in Srinagar September 24. Not just this. According to the police spokesman, “78 built-up properties, including 44 public properties of various offices of different departments were also set ablaze and damaged.”
The police spokesman also revealed that “29 vehicles belonging either to the police department or owned by certain cops and 23 residential houses of the cops were also set ablaze or damaged by the mobs during 105 days of unrest and strife, which has claimed the lives 104 protestors and left 500 others injured.” Besides, he also disclosed that as many as “1351 paramilitary CRPF personnel were also injured while maintaining law and order in different parts of the Valley.”
The break-up of the injured cops is like this: Srinagar city alone 640, as against 156 injured rioters, arsonists, boulder-throwers and separatists; Baramulla district 605, as against 182 injured arsonists and others, Pulwama district 503, as against 47 injured arsonists, rioters, separatists and boulder-throwers; Budgam district 205, as against 32 injured arsonists, rioters, separatists and boulder-throwers; Ganderbal district 185, as against 8 injured arsonists, rioters, separatists and boulder-throwers; Kupwara district 153, as against 21 injured rioters, arsonists, separatists and boulder-throwers; Anantnag district 119, as against 31 injured arsonists, rioters, boulder-throwers and separatists; Bandipora 97, as against 10 injured rioters, arsonists, separatists and boulder-throwers; and Shopian district 63, as against 13 injured rioters, arsonists, separatists and boulder-throwers.
These figures indicate two things. One is that the number of injured cops is far more as compared to the number of the rioters, arsonists, separatists and boulder-throwers injured – eight times more (over 4,000, as against just 504). The other is that the cops and paramilitary CRPF personnel showed utmost restraint while dealing with rioters and anti-India unruly mobs. They suffered at the hands of the rioters, separatists and boulder-throwers, but did not allow their restraint to end. Had the state police and paramilitary CRPF personnel reacted taking into consideration the magnitude of the engineered violence, the casualties would have been innumerable. Thousands and thousands of rioters have suffered injuries.
It is unfortunate that the state police and paramilitary CRPF, instead of being rewarded for maintaining restraint despite grave provocation and threat to their life and limb, are being demonized. It is also a matter of grave concern that while the authorities have come out with a package to provide relief to the arsonists or the slain rioters’ families, there is nothing in the government scheme of things for those cops and paramilitary CRPF personnel who suffered injuries while discharging their official duties. This is not a good approach. The authorities in the state and in New Delhi must revise their attitude towards those engaged in anti-insurgency operations. They deserve bouquets, not brickbats. Will the authorities compensate these over 4,000 poor injured cops and CRPF personnel? They must because they are the nation’s strength.
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