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| Militants to opt new strategy to avoid bloodshed on infiltration routes | | | Bharat Bhushan
JAMMU, Dec 17: In the face of dwindling local support to them and to avoid their early detection, the infiltrating militants have adopted the new strategy of avoiding bloodshed on the routes adopted by them after they sneak into the Indian territory.
By not killing locals on this side of the border, their obvious aim is to send them a message that they would not harm them if they did not spy on them.
A senior army officer, however, said their this strategy had not worked as locals had always volunteered to tell forces about infiltration attempts by Pak-based militants, if any.
In the March 23 and April 19 incidents of infiltration from Akhnoor and Kathua respectively, locals had tipped troops about the movement of militants even as they had not caused harm to any of them.
Earlier, the infiltrating militants forcibly took border residents as their guides and later killed them. At Ghati in Kathua, the infiltrating militants had on gun point taken a youth as their guide about four years, or so back. After reaching the Basohli woods, the militants had shot him dead.
In the same year, three to four persons were killed by other groups of infiltrating militants. But it was not the case now. The infiltrating militants were avoiding civilian killings on the routes taken by them.
This could be the new Pak strategy not to harm any Indian citizen on infiltration routes, the officer asserted.
This was not the case earlier when infiltrators killed anybody, including women, who came their way. There were several such instances in Ramgarh, Hiranagar and Kanhachak border areas here, he said.
On March 23 last, the infiltration by 16 Pak-based militants was detected by eight villagers, including two women, at Jogwan in Akhnoor at about 5 am while they were on way to fields across the border fencing.
The militants were hiding in the unfrequented Jogwan nullah. Seeing them, while six villagers fled, Sukha Devi and Geeta Devi were held hostage by the militants.
All the eight could have been easily killed by them but they did not do so. When one of them had spoken to his Pak mentor on a cellphone, seeking orders to kill the two women, the voice on other side had strictly asked him to avoid doing so.
According to the women who were set free later, the reason cited by the Pak mentor was: "Avoid killing locals otherwise people become vengeful and unforgiving and often help troops to pick up their movement which has, in the past, led to the early detection of infiltrators followed by their killings at the hands of security forces."
All of them were, however, later killed by army in Rajouri's Kalakote area, about 30 km from Jogwan, in four gunbattles.
In the April 19 incident also, the two infiltrators came across several border residents from Simble Spol, a Punjab border village close to the J&K border, to Hariachak in J&K's Rajbagh area of Kathua but did not harm any of them, unlike the militants who infiltrated in the past.
They took food and milk from at least three houses at Rajbagh and Punjab's Kote Patian and Ratarwan border villages but did not assault anyone.
The officer said the militants in the March 23 and April 19 incidents had not targetted civilians as they wanted to gain their sympathies by being non-violent towards them. In return, they expected people not to tell police about them, he added.
During their stay in the fields before they were killed, though they asked people to guide them to the national highway, they did not force anyone for the purpose. "This speaks of their changed strategy while dealing with people," the officer said. |
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