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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, July 1: Union Home Secretary G. K. Pillai has done exceedingly well by hitting the nail on the head and putting the prevailing situation in Kashmir in right perspective. Actually, in an interview to Rajdeep Sardesai of CNN-IBN, he has very strongly defended the role of the security forces in Kashmir. He gave the interview on Tuesday and accused the separatists of “whipping up “non-sense”, as also of “fomenting trouble” in the Valley. He rejected out-of-hand the charge that the “unarmed people are suffering” at the hands of the security forces. What he told the CNN-IBN was, in fact, a slap on the faces of those in Kashmir and elsewhere in the country who have been consistently accusing what they call “trigger-happy government forces” of perpetrating “barbarities” on the “peaceful and unarmed Kashmiri people” and using “excessive force against the peaceful protestors.”
The Union Home Secretary was absolutely right when he told Rajdeep Sardasai that the security forces never used “excessive force” against protestors. He described the protestors as “unruly mobs” and asserted that whatever has been happening in Kashmir is the immediate fall-out of the violent and highly provocative activities being indulged in by the “unruly mobs”, who are being instigated by the separatist elements (as per a meticulously evolved strategy) to confront the security forces and provoke them to open firing. To make his point clear, Pillai told Rajdeep Sardasai that he had with him video grabs showing “masked youth, armed with bricks, iron rods and wood logs” indulging in “reckless violence.” The upshot of his whole argument was that it was the “unruly mobs” and their masters (read Pakistan and its agents in Kashmir who want to keep the pot boiling in the Valley) and not the security forces, who were squarely responsible for the killing of a few Kashmiri youth.
In other words, Pillai did not buy the argument that the followers of extremists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Umar Farooq have been organizing peaceful processions or demonstrations to register their protest against the alleged human rights violations in parts of the Kashmir Valley. What he told Rajdeep implicitly suggested that the “unruly mobs” have left the CRPF personnel with no other option but to open firing in self-defence and bring the fast-deteriorating situation under control.
All-right thinking people would appreciate the stand of the Union Home Secretary because his was a very candid and calibrated response to the situation as it has been developing in Kashmir over the past few days, with the extremists like Geelani and the Mirwaiz motivating both males and females, plus teenagers, to vitiate the atmosphere by undertaking marches to Pathar Masjid or to Eidgah or to Sopore or to any other place knowing it full well that such activities have the potential of bringing security forces and the marchers, coupled with unruly and mischievous elements, face to face with each other. It is obvious that whatever he told the CNN-IBN was an official view and, hence, quite refreshing.
The vested interests in Kashmir and elsewhere may term as a “rude shock” the stand taken by the Union Home Secretary; they may even say that the Union Home Secretary has “sounded like the spokesman of an authoritarian regime that always “justify repression with worn out clichés.” In fact, they have already said so in so many words and expressed the view that whatever Pillai told Rajdeep Sardasai has, instead of dousing the fire, added more fuel to the fire. Let them say what they want to say. After all, they, including the so-called human rights activists represent not just vested interests, but represent those forces which are all out to help out the regressive forces in Kashmir and enable Pakistan to fish in the troubled waters.
It is for the general public in Kashmir to see through the ulterior game-plan of Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq and others of their ilk and expose, boycott and excommunicate them. If they really wish to lead a peaceful and secure life; if they really wish to carry on their economic and social activities in a peaceful environment; and if they sincerely wish that there are no more casualties anywhere in the Kashmir Valley, they have no other option but to tell the Kashmiri separatists on their faces that enough is enough and that they shall not allow them to carry on their trade on the dead bodies of Kashmiri Muslims any longer. It is their duty to expose the likes of Geelanis, who have been playing havoc with the lives of Kashmiri Muslims by inciting them to take recourse to senseless violent activities and suffer in the process.
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