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Kashmir civilian deaths: Locals say ‘indiscriminate’ firing by forces led to high casualties

But US or NATO will not bomb California or Texas or British Columbia, will they? Last time when something like that happened it was called civil-war.


If it is just 200 odd miscreants then why do you need the army to handle the situation? Why cann't a well-equipped police force of say 10,000 strong tackle it? If you are saying that provincial police force is light on them for whatever reason --I though find it hard to accept-- then call federal police force. If miscreants are well equipped and somehow well trained then call SWAT or specialized police force.

BTW, many gangs in US has been or had been more than thousand strong but I don't see Marines deploying to take out these gangs or locals pelting stone on their own forces police or the army.

Firstly they are handled by the local police force from the state. But recently they have started resorting to killing local police men in their home and abducting their families.

The second force which handles them are the paramilitary forces, which are military only in name but are just a police force called the Central reserved police force(CRPF).(Local police is under state authority, where as CRPF takes their orders from the centre.

Army does not get involved in COIN in populated areas. Local journalists due to lack of knowledge, refer to every uniform personal as army only.

They are 200 now, not long back the were over 25000. Their number are brought down by constant search and destroy ops.
 
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Facist state going all out now.
 
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"Residents marched towards the encounter site, some 2 km from the main town of Pulwama"

Well, they went looking for trouble and some of them found it. Next time kindly stay away from the encounter sites, for your and your family sakes.
 
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O really?, u need half a million troops to control 200 militants? Yes Indian army sucks but its not humanely possible to suck this much. U lying snake, India is occupying kashmir n every inch of the valley hates u monkey ugly subhumans to death. Dont worry when the right time comes we will hold every last one of u saffron dhotis accountable.

No, as explained before, Jammu & Kashmir is the only Indian state, which shares border with two hostile nations.
It is the only Indian state, which has active border. There LOC firings and artillery duels with Pakistani on weekly basis.
J&K is the only Indian state, where Pakistani insurgents are constantly trying to infiltrate, which needs to be stopped with multiple line of defenses.All this takes a lot of man power.

Plus we don't want to encourage, Pakistani adventurism of 1965, where you guys tried to take J&K by sending in your special forces and then by cutting the Indian link to Kashmir.

So its better to have, so many forces already deployed in the region, that even entire Pakistan army can not match it.
 
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"Residents marched towards the encounter site, some 2 km from the main town of Pulwama"

Well, they went looking for trouble and some of them found it. Next time kindly stay away from the encounter sites, for your and your family sakes.
Why , its Kashmir and it belong to Kashmiri people. Why Indian army creating no go zones. That's where the hate grow more against foreign forces.
 
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I will say again


In a free democratic vote in Kashmir today india would be decimated, it wont even be close
 
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Kashmir protests: Army asks people not to march towards Srinagar HQ on Monday
After the killing of seven civilians protesting the anti-militancy operation in Pulwama on Saturday, the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) had called for a three day strike and asked people to march towards Badami Bagh cantonment, where the headquarters of the 15 Corps is located, on Monday.
The army on Sunday asked people not to march towards its Srinagar headquarters on Monday on the call of separatists as the Kashmir Valley witnessed complete shutdown on Sunday to protest the killing of seven civilians at Sirnoo village in Pulwama district.

All shops and business establishments were closed and traffic was off the roads. The train service between Baramulla and Banihal was also suspended.

Restrictions were imposed in Pulwama and its adjoining areas, mobile internet snapped in south and central Kashmir while internet speed was slowed down in other parts of Valley. Restrictions were also imposed in Srinagar’s old city and Maisuma areas.

In Pulwama town, people were not allowed to venture on the roads and asked to stay inside their homes.

To prevent protests, additional security force personnel were deployed in Pulwama and other restive parts of Kashmir. “The situation is tense and people have been asked to remain inside their homes. It is just like an unannounced curfew,” Pulwama resident Abdul Qayoom said.

After the killing of seven civilians protesting the anti-militancy operation in Pulwama on Saturday, the Joint Resistance Leadership (JRL) had called for a three day strike and asked people to march towards Badami Bagh cantonment, where the headquarters of the 15 Corps is located, on Monday.

“We will all march towards Badami Bagh on Monday and ask the army that instead of killing us daily, they should kill us all,” Hurriyat faction chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq said.

Asking people not to heed the call to march to Badami Bagh, the army termed it an attempt by proxies of Pakistan to destabilise peace.

A defence spokesman, in a statement, said the army along with all the security agencies and the civil administration is fighting terrorism and proxy war, sponsored by Pakistan in Kashmir.

“The objective of forces is to bring peace and normalcy in the Valley with the support of people. The forces have eliminated a large number of terrorists trying to infiltrate along the Line of Control and neutralised an even larger number of them in the hinterland this year to improve the overall security situation, making huge sacrifices themselves,” the spokesman said adding the forces make every attempt to avoid any loss of civilian lives in cross-fire and minimise collateral damage to property.

“Loss of any civilian life is always painful for the security forces. However, the vested interests are continuously at work to instigate and mobilise gullible youths to encounter sites.”

The march to Badami Bagh cantonment is another such attempt, he said.

“We advise people not to fall prey to such designs of anti-national forces. The Indian Army is always with the people of Kashmir and would foil all such evil attempts of terrorist-separatist-Pakistan nexus to pit the civilian population against the security forces.”

Meanwhile, officials said that restrictions will continue in the old city on Monday and roads towards Army’s 15 Corps headquarters will be sealed on Monday. Sources said the Mirwaiz Umar Farooq will be placed under house arrest to prevent him from leading the march towards Badami Bagh.
https://www.hindustantimes.com/indi...q-on-monday/story-lG3idjzTjGWGKOSYbZlGFN.html
 
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Why , its Kashmir and it belong to Kashmiri people. Why Indian army creating no go zones. That's where the hate grow more against foreign forces.
There are no "no go zones" but if you are going to create hindrance in a live encounter and try to help those who have raised arms against the state you will be treated as appropriately.
 
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That means you don't have enough police force in the region or you have not properly trained them or you have not equipped them. How can untrained and poorly equipped civilians ever subdue police forces?

Also, if civilians are doing unrest for a decade that means something else is broken at a very fundamental level. Civilians usually want to live their lives, work, go home to their families. Rioting for 10 years or more is a symptom for something else extremely broken somewhere.
your comments are so cute and innocent ... i would not blame you for your ignorance, rather suggest you to read up more about the Kashmir issue and terrorism there

Let's continue this conversation face to face, let's see if you got balls.
will be happy to have a face to face interaction. I will keep my gun dip in honey for you to have better test
 
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