x-posting: "They can’t do such activities in large scale because of the presence of Indian Security forces. If India didn’t have an active presence on the ground and J&K Police wasn’t equipped, trained and controlled like it is now. You would see a lot lot more dead bodies scattered all over the streets. The shootings and assassinations will happen on daily basis."
I wonder if all these 'left' or left liberal commentators , in the Wire, the Hindu, Rolling Stone India, Film Companion etc, plus ethnic Indians writing for various publications in North America and Europe, realise that they would definitely be targeted if they were living in Kashmir in the 1990s and after. Unless they converted to Islam, supported the insurgency/terror, or alternatively, left the valley and gave their womenfolk up. Would they then be writing so detachedly about 'nuance', 'balance', 'communal', "Islamophobia" et al? It's a lot easier to sit in offices, campuses or coffee houses in Delhi and Mumbai, and rant about Hindus and the BJP. Try doing the same in 1990, with respect to the JKLF, Hizbul and their supporters, in the Kashmir valley.