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

[Partha Dasgupta]

Hi,

Not as an 'intellectual', but as an ordinary list reader, have some
questions
1.  What's the point - that a soldier was killed by a militant?
     That's a part of their job profile. A tragic incident but a part of
     the armed forces life. Just as a militant knows that he'll be
     targetted by armed forces fire, armed forces know that they'll be
     targetted by militants

2.  Yasin Malik didn't apologise? Well, that's his personal point of view.
     Like he has his, you have yours - and thy differ. This post is not
     marked to him so you're obviously not trying to change his mind
     and make him apologise.

3.  We've all seen footage of armed forces showing unrelated people as
     militants and cops showing innocent people as criminals so we know
     that both sides play dirty. That's a fact of life that needs to be
faced
     by unbiased reporting to clean the problem and not enhance it by hate.

4.  Where does "God Bless India" come in - or even India come in since
     militancy is a global problem from Ceylon to Afghanistan to the US
     and Ireland

This pointless post has got me completely confused as to what you're trying
to say,
unless it's linked to a larger debate - in which case you should include the
debate.

Rgds, Partha
....................

On 9/13/07, Pawan Durani <pawan.durani at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> And the "intellectuals" will still have some argument................god
> Bless India.
>
>
>
> On 9/13/07, Aditya Raj Kaul <adityarajkaul at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > *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'. *
> >
> >
> > *--
> > Aditya Raj Kaul
> > Blog: www.kauladityaraj.blogspot.com
> > Campaign Blog: www.kashmiris-in-exile.blogspot.com
> > RIK Website: www.rootsinkashmir.org
> > US Website: www.unitedstudents.in*
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