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| Police favour twin formula for tackling militancy | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 12: One need not feel amazed if one compares militants with a tribe that is as good as nomadic.Ever since the rise of militancy in Jammu and Kashmir in 1989 even the police talk about militants being no less than nomadic tribes because guntoting youths keep on moving from one place to the other in search of shelter and food.
Nomadic tribes move from one place to the other in search of pastures for their cattle. These nomadic tribes travel to the hilly areas alongwith their cattleheads for grazing and before the onset of the winter they return to their places in the plains.
In the same fashion militants move from one area to the other.This is one of the reasons responsible for rise or decline of militancy related activities in one area or the other.For instance militancy relateed activities had nose dived in Srinagar and Budgam district in central Kashmir but have resurfaced in recent weeks.
When this question was posed to the DIG police,Abdul Gani Mir,he said that since militants move from one place to the other their number in one area or the other keeps on fluctuating.It is quite small a number of militants in Sringar city today and after one month the number can be enormous.This is the result of militants' mobility.
One lesson that militants have been taught in their training camps across the LOC is that they should never make an area or a place as their permanent abode because under such circumstances the chances of their arrest or elimination would be high.Another inst ruction to them is that they should avoid making houses or spots within the heavily populated areas as their hideouts.Try to keep away from the thickly populatd areas and after each strike escape to higher regions.
It is because of this factor that neither the police authorities nor the Army functionaries are able to say about the presence of exact number of militants.Whatever figures they dish out are based on conjectures.Since militants are as mobile as nomads it is not possible for the police to carry out their head count.
Another aspect of militancy is that the number of rebel outfits too keeps on fluctuating and attempts are being made to confuse the security agencies by floating fake organisations.Usually it has been seen that for a strike carried out by A militant outfit responsibility is being owned by B group.
Between 1990-94 there were as many as 150 militant groups in the state and some of the groups were a one-man show.Their number has dwindled and there are,according to police,not more than half a dozen oufits.Those that matter in the ongoing insurgency are Lashkar-i-Toiba,Jash-e-Mohd.,Hizbul Mujahideen and a couple more.
Police said that once the rate of infiltration declined further those militants operating in Jammu an Kashmir will be forced to either surrender or abandon the culture of gun.According to the police,checking infiltration and sustained operations against militants were the two things needed to end the menace of terrorism in the state.
At the same time senior police functionaries believe that people-friendly policies of the Government which may include tackling of problem of unemployment on a war footing were needed to reduce the extent of support militants receive from people. |
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