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| Afghanistan/South Asia |
| The Vanished |
| 2005-08-07 |
| India choose KPS Gill, a ruthless Sikh Policeman, to deal with the Khalastani terrorist movement in the 1980's. He broke the back of Sikh militancy. His police did what the Indian army could not do. This article is a whine from a human rights activist. It is a sobering look at what is necessary to crush militancy. Human rights activists allege the police picked up thousands of young men—some confirmed militants, some sympathisers and many innocents—from across the state, killed them in cold blood and despatched them as unidentified corpses to various crematoriums across the state. There were more weighed down in canals and rivers. No one knows how many disappeared in this manner. However, 2,097 illegal cremations, pertaining to just three crematoriums in Amritsar district—Durgyana Mandir, Municipal Committee and Tarn Taran—have been confirmed by a CBI investigation. |
| Posted by:john |
| #4 That and being abducted and cremated |
| Posted by: john 2005-08-07 20:28 |
| #3 The terrorists soon stopped targetting police families. Takes all the fun out of it doesn't it? |
| Posted by: GK 2005-08-07 14:28 |
| #2 At first the terrorists targetted the families of policemen, in an attempt to dissuade them from action. Gill's policemen responded by kidnapping the family members of the suspected kidnappers. Some were "vanished". The terrorists soon stopped targetting police families. |
| Posted by: john 2005-08-07 14:02 |
| #1 These are actually pretty traditional methods for dealing with insurrectionists. He understood the fact that when you have to resort to these methods, the terrorists haven't won - the reality is that they're about to be wiped out. Some innocents will get caught up in the dragnet, but the cancer that the terrorists represent will have been removed from the body politic. |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2005-08-07 13:19 |