Compare this report with the Portuguese soldiers’ shooting of satyagrahis on Goa borders. Salazar’s actions seem puny because Portugal had no more than 3,000 soldiers and paramilitary at the peak of the Goa disturbances. Kashmir on the other hand plays host to half of the Indian’s armed forces’ strength of 1.2 million personnel.
From “The Cable” “The government has been forced to exhume and return the bodies of two businessmen killed in Jammu & Kashmir to their families. Md Altaf Bhat and Dr Mudasir Gul were among four who died in an anti-terror operation at a commercial complex in Srinagar on Monday. However, the body of the third slain local, Amir Magray, son of Abdul Latief Magray, who won a bravery award for killing a militant with a stone, has not yet been exhumed or handed over to his family. These deaths have shone an exceptionally harsh light on the state machinery in Kashmir. The New York Times reports that “activists and rights groups have long accused the Indian forces of killing civilians with impunity, because the law protects them from prosecution, and gunfights are sometimes staged so that soldiers can earn rewards and promotions.” There have been three complaints in two years.” Just saying..... Roland. Toronto.
