Sopore encounter genuine, faked, or grafted?
Mustafa Khan
An encounter of the security forces and the militants was in
action Wednesday July 1 2020. The security forces forced a grandfather in his
late sixties to get out of his car. They sprayed bullets and killed him as his
3 year old grandson Ayyan/Babbu Khan looked at the operation. The soldiers
walked on the body and picked up the boy and put him on his grandfather still
alive but breathed his last looking at the child. They also posed for
photographs. The soldiers trampled the
body.
The
child was habitually sleeping with his hands touching or holding the ears or
face of his grandfather. This was the reflex action as the soldiers made a
video of it. The mother and the grandmother of the child were also in police
service. It was the child who narrated to them with onomatopoeic sound of
firing guns. He even overheard the troopers talking about what they were doing,
their instructions and orders and compliance of it. He even reported to his
near and dear ones who were simply nonplussed and awed!
What the toddler wanted to demonstrate was the expression of the
subconscious which is the repertoire of being caught between Scylla and
Charibdis where the situation is such that there are two dangers in which an
attempt to avoid one increases the risk from the other. It was quite recently
that the present chief of CRPF filed a complaint against the former head of
CRPF who is now Inspector General of Kashmir section, Vijay Kumar.
The
imbroglio in Kashmir valley is churning out the truth which has otherwise been
consigned to limbo. During the
discussion on role of CRPF in Kashmir, Vijay Kumar, had observed that the
CRPF was getting credit for operations although
it was not doing anything. He also said that CRPF
is not up to the mark. “Here [in Kashmir], Intelligence is generated by Jammu
and Kashmir Police and operations are conducted by the Army and Rashtriya
Rifles. The name of CRPF is inserted just like that. This I know. I have been
in CRPF."
A natural corollary of this would be that the death
of Osaib Altaf Maraz on February 5, 2020 when Modi government scrapped the
Articles 370, 35A. The security forces chased some boys who were playing in the
field. When they were escaping they came upon the bridge where another group of
soldiers blocked them. There were about 12 of them. They jumped into the river.
But not Osaib, he could not swim and yet tried to hang from the bridge and then
wade into the water of the river tentatively while his playmate swam to the
other bank and fled. He caught hold of the ledge but cops struck him on his
head. Then he tried to hold on the bush in the running stream when the security
personnel hit him again and again and then targeted his hands on the under-water
bushes. He let it go and subsequently drowned to his death in water. He was
buried the same day and yet the central government under Modi and Shah did not
allow registration of his death to show that the first day of the scrapping of
articles and declaring Kashmir and Jammu as central territory.
Human rights activists
appealed to Supreme Court which ordered the police to issue death certificate
after a gap of 4 months. There is still possibility that the whole affair was a
faked encounter: “I wouldn’t have believed my nephew,
but when I went to the police station at Sopore and saw my father’s car, there
was not even a single scratch on it. If he were killed in the crossfire then
there should have been bloodstains or shards of the window panes, but I
couldn’t see anything in the car” he said.
What happened in Kashmir is impact India. Only
recently India faced a peculiar situation in Tamil Nadu where the police killed
a father and his son after beating them throughout the night. Was it because
they were Christians? The matter worsened so much that the high court ordered
the collector to take over the police station! Such depravity is the hall mark
of India under Modi.
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