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| Militarization mantra can't defuse situation: Mehbooba | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
Srinagar, June 29: Describing the government move to use army against protesters an offensive act, Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti today said that the use of force was not likely to help defuse the situation.
“This would be a remedy worse than the problem and was no option in the changed scenario,''she said .
Mehbooba said it appeared the government has convinced itself of the situation having been reversed to 1990 when Armed Forces had to be deployed to fight thousands of militants. At a time when the discourse had transformed to withdrawal of troops from civilian areas and revoking the AFSPA in view of a vastly changed scenario, the government pronouncement sounds out rightly sinister and motivated. ``Instead of trying to widen the space for civil society institutions and democratizing the polity fully, the coalition government had adopted the dangerous route of regimentation which is against the very basis of a democratic system,'' she said.
Terming the statement of the union home secretary on a TV show yesterday as unfortunate, Mehbooba said the lack of appreciation of ground realities in the state was obvious from his observations. She said the people of the state had been forced to come to the streets by the inept and insensitive government foisted on them and the unarmed young men would not risk their lives in absence of a strong reason to protest in a manner that was not unknown to other parts of the country.
"Are protesters in Kashmir who demand right to life any different from similarly placed people in other parts of the country where even one death is enough reason for popular outrage?" she asked, expressing anguish at the highly inappropriate remark about "just one death".
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