[Reader-list] FIGHT TERROR WITH TERROR: OUR LESSONS FROM KASHMIR

abir bazaz abirbazaz at rediffmail.com
Tue Nov 13 22:54:00 IST 2001




Ikhwan-ul-Muslimoon: Our fight against terrorism

Who are the Ikhwan? What have they accomplished in all these years ? I excerpt a Human Rights watch Report on the Ikhwan .Forget the rights bit,the excerpt offers us further clues to fight terror with terror.Now we should help the Northern Alliance with lessons in urban intimidation...after all what will they do sitting idle in Kabul as they have no plans to take on the Pashtuns,terrorists, in the South.

Human Rights Watch Report

INDIA'S SECRET ARMY IN KASHMIR
New Patterns of Abuse Emerge in the Conflict


While attempting to reassure the international community that they have taken steps to curb human rights abuses in Kashmir, Indian forces have in effect subcontracted some of their abusive tactics to groups with no official accountability. The extrajudicial killings, abductions and assaults committed by these groups against suspected militants are instead described as resulting from "intergroup rivalries." But civilians have  been their victims, and the militia groups have singled out journalists, human rights activists and medical workers for attack. They have been given free rein to patrol major hospitals in Srinagar, particularly the Soura Institute, the Sri Maharaja Hari Singh (SMHS) hospital and the Bone and Joint Hospital. They have murdered, threatened, beaten and detained hospital ...  They have also removed patients from hospitals. 


In some cases, attacks by these paramilitary groups appear to have been carried out on orders from security officers; in other cases, the groups appear to operate on their own, within broadly defined limits to their discretionary powers and the full expectation on the part of the security forces that they will use their discretion to take initiatives within the overall counterinsurgency strategy of fighting terror with terror. Their actions are taken with the knowledge and complicity of official security forces. When arrested by local police, members of these groups have been released on orders of the s
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