Hi Ravi, you wrote: --- ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i do not know about fighters, but definitely quite a few kashmiris have been killed in kashmir by indian forces. a simple search on amnesty.org for 'kashmir' yields multiple pages and reports of abuse and murder perpetrated by the indian govt and armed forces.
--- It's counterinsurgency war -- the main victims in counterinsurgency war are always civilian. It's probably the most brutal form of warfare there is. I don't know about the state of the Indian Army, but most of the horrors against civilians in Chechnya (leavinf aside the tricky question of how to define the term "civilian") are the result of terrified and trigger-happy drafted soldiers who want to get home alive and therefore shoot first and ask questions later. --- BBC> What started as essentially an indigenous popular uprising in BBC> Indian-administered Kashmir has in the last 12 years undergone BBC> major changes. BBC> <...> BBC> some of the groups that were in the forefront of the BBC> armed insurgency in 1989 - particularly the pro-independence BBC> Jammu-Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) - have receded into the BBC> background. --- Sounds like Chechnya to me. I would go as far as to say that anytime the international mujaheedin start to figure prominantly in a conflict, it has almost certainly been hijacked. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
