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| Who was responsible for last year's agitation? | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Feb 16: The civil administration, intelligence agencies and the police expect "massive agitation" in June. Arrangements ranging from buying `Plastic Pellets guns' to appointment of `known stone pelters' in government and semi-government departments have been undertaken to prevent another agitation this year. However, nobody seems interested in studying the causes of last year's turmoil.
When people get killed, the relatives and friends come out to protest. This is human nature and there is absolutely nothing wrong with it. The police will hold a contrary view. They (police) treated the agitation as a law and order problem and the killings continued for five months in the name of maintaining peace and public order. The police also came out with various theories to explain the `phenomenon'. First they said some politicians sponsored the protests. Then they blamed Kerosene dealers for the trouble and finally they say the stone pelters are drug addicts.
Without contesting these claims, it needs to be made clear that in a democratic set up, people have a right to register protest. Do the police consider people inhuman, insensitive and indifferent to the extent that they would witness killing of their dear ones like spectators? The police know it better that the agitation came to an end the moment killings stopped.
Khoon ka badla June main laingay (we will avenge killings in June) is a rumour spread by unscrupulous elements. The Hurriyat (G) chairman, Syed Ali Geelani and other separatist leaders have dissociated themselves from this rumour. Even senior police officers reject it as a rumour. For the information of the police, a spark is always needed to ignite (start) an agitation. Who provided the spark last year? There must be a genuine reason for agitating an issue.
According to the people close to Geelani, the problem lies in inefficient policing. "As long as police remain disciplined, nobody will come out on the streets", they made clear.
However, according to them, the police are taxing the patience of people by effecting arrests across Kashmir. "This is not going to help in maintaining order", they said. |
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