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| Kashmir based parties should stop shedding crocodile tears | | AFSPA revocation | | Early Times Report
Jammu, July 9: Following the Supreme Court ruling which has directed the Army to avoid using excessive force in disturbed areas the mainstream political parties in Kashmir should stop beating their chest to seek revocation of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from the state.
Over the years Kashmir based mainstream parties have been seen shedding crocodile tears while raising their voice against the retention of AFSPA in Jammu and Kashmir.
Why these crocodile tears ? These mainstream parties know it very well that without AFSPA forces cannot operate in Jammu and Kashmir as the changing scenario in Pakistan and Afghanistan is emerging as a big challenge and the attempts of Pakistan to push more and more militants into JK to intensify the proxy war too is a cause of concern. It's high time for Kashmir based parties to stop raking up AFSPA and its revocation.
If these parties know the ground realities then why do they make noise? They want to keep the voters happy. At one stage Omar Abdullah wanted AFSPA should be lifted from five districts where militancy related violence had touched zero level.
Well if people are scared of AFSPA they do so because they believe that the security forces and the Army could make use of excessive force. And this was but natural for the Kashmir centric political parties to demand revocation of the AFSPA simply to keep their vote bank intact. Separatists cried against the Act because they wanted to make their presence felt.
After the Supreme Court ruling there should be no fear among the people in Kashmir and among Kashmir centric political parties. The Supreme Court has said the Army cannot not use excessive force in its counter-insurgency operations in areas declared disturbed under the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act.
( Behind the veil )
The court held that criminal courts did have the jurisdiction to look into cases of alleged excesses by the armed forces in areas declared disturbed.
A bench of Justice Madan B Lokur and Justice Uday Umesh Lalit, however, reserved its verdict on the question of ordering a probe by a special investigation team (SIT) into more than 1,500 cases of allegedly staged shootouts in Manipur.
The ruling is a setback to the Centre and the army which had argued that the Army Act gave impunity to armed forces personnel from being prosecuted by criminal courts.
The court verdict came on a petition by the associations of the families of the people who were allegedly killed by the armed forces in Manipur since 1978.
The petitioner associations had sought an SIT probe into 1,528 such killings.
The court, taking note of the submission by the National Human Rights Commission that it was a toothless body, sought the government's response as to whether it was bound by the recommendations that the rights body made.
The court said it would examine the issue afresh. Though the ruling has been given with reference to the incidents of Manipur but the Apex court ruling is applicable to Jammu and Kashmir. Hence one does expect no shedding of crocodile tears and no breast beating by the Kashmir centric parties.
Had the AFSPA been lifted security forces and the Police would not have been able to eliminate three militants including the self styled commander of Hizbul Mujahideen,Burhan Wani. In the absence of AFSPA the security forces cannot act on their own and have to seek permission from the District Magistrate. |
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