Re: [IAC] [IAC++] NEGLECT OF ARMED FORCES

Well I wouldn't equate use of the Army in J&K with Operation BlueStar.
The 2 situations are quite different.

What I would point to is the following:-

IF Sentries are used as servants
IF Police are used as sentries
IF ATS and NSG are used as police
IF Army is used as ats/nsg

THEN who the f**** is guarding our borders ?

Will somebody in Govt. also answer the basic questions (before Ajay Dixit does)

1) How did Kasab &co escape in the ATS vehicle ?
2) Why did NSG not sanitise the area outside Taj Hotel and clear out Barkha Dutt &Co ?
3) Why did Karkare appear distinctly nervous on TV
when he was putting on his flak jacket ?
4) How high do the moles in Govt go ?

Sarbajit
National Convenor IAC

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Vidyut Kale <wide.aware@gmail.com> wrote:

+500%

And Kashmir is ongoing too. Not like the Army had a choice, but what should have been a use of force to quell militancy and create space for a political initiative seems to have taken the easy path of using the forces to keep Kashmir in a kind of limbo.

So if is a bizarrely disconnected situation. Government initiatives don't translate into good will in the absense of vision and resentment of an overwhelmingly powerful permanent presence telling them a story of mistrust. The Army is not police. Period. You can't simply park the Army there and forget it.

Surrounded by civilians who could also be enemies, the stress is extremely high and results in angry brutality against civilians and suicides among soldiers as well as angry civilians, some of whom are so fixated on getting rid of this imposition and getting rid of India, that they will not allow themselves or others to be happy till that is achieved.

The AFSPA further complicates things. In reality, it isn't so much the AFSPA as the impunity. Desperate to keep frustrated soldiers from rebellion, the government and Army turn a blind eye to many mistakes - at the cost of locals.

It gives rise to a whole bunch of do-gooders who are less about solutions and more about wanting "fashionably contrary" things to happen.

Not to mention the phenomenal toll - financial, social and psychological where the polarized politics itself adds to the perception of Kashmir being separate.

When the dust settles, it will be the Army blamed for the result - whatever it is - by whichever side. *If* it settles, or there will only be entire generations lost to a limbo born in political cowardice.

Vidyut

On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:12 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:

One of the biggest mistakes the Army
made was participating in Operation Bluestar. It was a policing
problem - it should have been sorted out by the MHA.

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