[Reader-list] JKLF leader Yasin Malik says unarmed IAF officers were agents of Enemy...defends killing them !

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

*The agents of the 'enemy'** - Rediff News

*** *Srinagar.* January 25, 1990 Squadron Leader Ravi Khanna's misfortune
was that he was in uniform.
That winter morning nine years ago, he and his colleagues were waiting near
the Rawalpura bus stand. An Indian Air Force bus was to reach them to the
airport.
At around 0730 hours a Maruti Gypsy and a two-wheeler carrying four to five
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front militants drew up. The next thing that
Khanna knew was bullets pumping into his body. That was the last thing he
knew. Around him 13 more fell. Three of them dead, 10 were injured. Hardly
50 yards away was a Jammu and Kashmir police picket, manned by a head
constable and seven subordinates. Their eight .303 rifles remained silent as
the militants finished emptying their weapons and, taking a clockwise
circuit of the roundabout ahead, vanished unhurriedly into Srinagar's
numerous back lanes.
*Even after he gave up the gun, JKLF leader Yasin Malik was to defend the
killings: The IAF personnel were not innocent victims. They were the agents
of the 'enemy'. *


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Aditya Raj Kaul
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