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Is India a soft state?
In the past we have many incidents where we had not acted in a decisive manner. We had never learnt our lesson from the past. Members are requested to share their views on this issue. I am pointing out a few incidents as for me we are a soft state.
It was year 1962.One of our former Prime Minister has issued a slogan that is Hindi Chini bhai bhai (Indians and Chinese are like brothers). Government of India had no intelligence report of Chinese troop buildup. So we were taken by surprise and lose the war before it began. Now it is 2009. There are reports of repeated Chinese incursion in many parts of AP, Sikkim, Uttaranchal, Ladakh. As usual we are not prepared. Our government is downplaying the incident. We must not react in a immature manner but are we prepared for China?
It was April 18 2001; 18 BSF man was tortured and killed by BDR. Their body was returned as if they are animals. At that time BJP who makes so much noise about national security was in power. What was the action taken by GOI? Nothing flag meeting with BDR. Protest was lodged with Bangladesh government and the then Home secretary Kamal Pandey asked BSF to be on alert. You can imagine what effect this incident would have on the morale of BSF. Signs Of Torture
Of the 16 bodies handed over only seven could be identified. And these bore clear marks of torture:
Constable Sukhwinder: Cut injury on forehead and point-blank range bullet injury on body
Dy Commandant B.R. Mondol: Cut injury on neck and cheek. Was probably killed a day after capture.
Sub-Inspector Panna Lal: Bullet injury on left arm. Vertical knife cut mark on forehead.
Head Constable Raman Gouda: Cut injury on head and right arm, cut injuries on right leg.
Constable Mafiuddin: Four cut marks on body.
Constable Gurbax Singh: Cut injury on right temporal region and arm by sharp object.
Constable S. Dhala: Bullet injuries on chest/arm.
It was 24th December 1999. Indian Airlines flight IC-814 was hijacked. Now I am not sure what GOI had done was right or wrong. Once the plane was allowed to take off from Amritsar airport things were never under our control. During those 6 days we saw protest in front of Prime Minister Residence by relatives and family members of the passenger onboard the hijacked plane. I do not how I would have reacted if any of my family members was there in the hijacked plane. But this kind of protest proves that we are not mentally tough. The then foreign Minister has accompanied 3 terrorist to Kandahar to resolve this issue which is another debatable issue.
The date was 13th December 2001. Terrorists attacked the Parliament of India resulting in a 45-minute gun battle in which 9 policemen and parliament staffer were killed. All the five terrorists were also killed by the security forces and were identified as Pakistani nationals. After this attack mass troop movement has been done to our western border. Our then Prime Minister quoted as saying “Abb aar paar ki ladayi hogi” (Now there will be a decisive fight). We recalled our ambassador from Pakistan; Pakistani Civilian aircrafts are not allowed to use Indian airspace. The troops were stationed there for a whole long year but no action has taken place. After few years we started the composite dialouge and relation got normal. Afzal Guru who was convicted for the crime by Supreme Court is yet to be hanged. His mercy petition is pending with our president. I do not know how much time our president will take to decide on his mercy petition.
We are facing state border terrorism sponsored by Pakistan from late eighties. In late eighties and early nineties the act of terrorism was confided to J & K only. But now it has spread to all over India. On 26/11 2009 what happened was just unimaginable. Nine terrorist came through sea route and had a blood bath on the soil of our financial capital Mumbai. There was huge public outcry. Initially GOI was taking tough under public pressure. But as time passed what we see is exchanges of thousand pages dossiers and frequent visit to US by our leader for American help in this matter. GOI cannot guarantee that an incident like 26/11 will never happen.
There had been reports of torture of Indian fisherman by SriLankan Navy. There has been lots of protest in TamilNadu. But GOI is down playing this incident. I do not know whether government of India is taking up the matter with SriLankan government.
Now let’s talk about problem of Naxal and Maoist violence. How many civilian, policeman and paramilitary jawans have been killed in this violence is unknown. Naxals and Maoist are running parallel governments in many states of India. Currently Naxals and Maoist are active in following states of India – Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra. It is believed Naxals and Maoist are getting support from political parties. If that is not the case how can these people are getting sophisticated weapons and operating for such a long period of time.
There have been lots of Police encounters recently. There is no doubt many of these encounters are fake. But to generalize that all the encounters are fake is a dangerous thing. Recently we have a police encounter at Batla house in Delhi. In this ecounter 3/5 terrorist were killed and one respected Inspector of Delhi police got killed. A general secretary of a political party started his vote bank politics and accused the encounter was fake and the inspector was killed by his own man. I do not know why this politician is not beaten up by the public? These politicians came with their Z+ security and when any terrorist attack happens they talk as if they are ready to die for the country.
Recently there has been attack on India students in Australia. What measure is GOI of India is taking? GOI has not even issued a travel advisory. Our government is busy in hosting the prime Minister of Victoria. Why GOI is not banning Australian universities? India constitutes 50-60% of the $ 3 billion Australian education sector.
Recently there has been numerous incident of ceasefire violation by Pakistani rangers in J & K. We are just protesting in Flag meetings between BSF and Pakistani rangers. Why government of India not allowing BSF to take retaliatory measures?
There are many other issues which I will highlight in my next post. I would request members to share their views.
regards
In the past we have many incidents where we had not acted in a decisive manner. We had never learnt our lesson from the past. Members are requested to share their views on this issue. I am pointing out a few incidents as for me we are a soft state.
It was year 1962.One of our former Prime Minister has issued a slogan that is Hindi Chini bhai bhai (Indians and Chinese are like brothers). Government of India had no intelligence report of Chinese troop buildup. So we were taken by surprise and lose the war before it began. Now it is 2009. There are reports of repeated Chinese incursion in many parts of AP, Sikkim, Uttaranchal, Ladakh. As usual we are not prepared. Our government is downplaying the incident. We must not react in a immature manner but are we prepared for China?
It was April 18 2001; 18 BSF man was tortured and killed by BDR. Their body was returned as if they are animals. At that time BJP who makes so much noise about national security was in power. What was the action taken by GOI? Nothing flag meeting with BDR. Protest was lodged with Bangladesh government and the then Home secretary Kamal Pandey asked BSF to be on alert. You can imagine what effect this incident would have on the morale of BSF. Signs Of Torture
Of the 16 bodies handed over only seven could be identified. And these bore clear marks of torture:
Constable Sukhwinder: Cut injury on forehead and point-blank range bullet injury on body
Dy Commandant B.R. Mondol: Cut injury on neck and cheek. Was probably killed a day after capture.
Sub-Inspector Panna Lal: Bullet injury on left arm. Vertical knife cut mark on forehead.
Head Constable Raman Gouda: Cut injury on head and right arm, cut injuries on right leg.
Constable Mafiuddin: Four cut marks on body.
Constable Gurbax Singh: Cut injury on right temporal region and arm by sharp object.
Constable S. Dhala: Bullet injuries on chest/arm.
It was 24th December 1999. Indian Airlines flight IC-814 was hijacked. Now I am not sure what GOI had done was right or wrong. Once the plane was allowed to take off from Amritsar airport things were never under our control. During those 6 days we saw protest in front of Prime Minister Residence by relatives and family members of the passenger onboard the hijacked plane. I do not how I would have reacted if any of my family members was there in the hijacked plane. But this kind of protest proves that we are not mentally tough. The then foreign Minister has accompanied 3 terrorist to Kandahar to resolve this issue which is another debatable issue.
The date was 13th December 2001. Terrorists attacked the Parliament of India resulting in a 45-minute gun battle in which 9 policemen and parliament staffer were killed. All the five terrorists were also killed by the security forces and were identified as Pakistani nationals. After this attack mass troop movement has been done to our western border. Our then Prime Minister quoted as saying “Abb aar paar ki ladayi hogi” (Now there will be a decisive fight). We recalled our ambassador from Pakistan; Pakistani Civilian aircrafts are not allowed to use Indian airspace. The troops were stationed there for a whole long year but no action has taken place. After few years we started the composite dialouge and relation got normal. Afzal Guru who was convicted for the crime by Supreme Court is yet to be hanged. His mercy petition is pending with our president. I do not know how much time our president will take to decide on his mercy petition.
We are facing state border terrorism sponsored by Pakistan from late eighties. In late eighties and early nineties the act of terrorism was confided to J & K only. But now it has spread to all over India. On 26/11 2009 what happened was just unimaginable. Nine terrorist came through sea route and had a blood bath on the soil of our financial capital Mumbai. There was huge public outcry. Initially GOI was taking tough under public pressure. But as time passed what we see is exchanges of thousand pages dossiers and frequent visit to US by our leader for American help in this matter. GOI cannot guarantee that an incident like 26/11 will never happen.
There had been reports of torture of Indian fisherman by SriLankan Navy. There has been lots of protest in TamilNadu. But GOI is down playing this incident. I do not know whether government of India is taking up the matter with SriLankan government.
Now let’s talk about problem of Naxal and Maoist violence. How many civilian, policeman and paramilitary jawans have been killed in this violence is unknown. Naxals and Maoist are running parallel governments in many states of India. Currently Naxals and Maoist are active in following states of India – Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra. It is believed Naxals and Maoist are getting support from political parties. If that is not the case how can these people are getting sophisticated weapons and operating for such a long period of time.
There have been lots of Police encounters recently. There is no doubt many of these encounters are fake. But to generalize that all the encounters are fake is a dangerous thing. Recently we have a police encounter at Batla house in Delhi. In this ecounter 3/5 terrorist were killed and one respected Inspector of Delhi police got killed. A general secretary of a political party started his vote bank politics and accused the encounter was fake and the inspector was killed by his own man. I do not know why this politician is not beaten up by the public? These politicians came with their Z+ security and when any terrorist attack happens they talk as if they are ready to die for the country.
Recently there has been attack on India students in Australia. What measure is GOI of India is taking? GOI has not even issued a travel advisory. Our government is busy in hosting the prime Minister of Victoria. Why GOI is not banning Australian universities? India constitutes 50-60% of the $ 3 billion Australian education sector.
Recently there has been numerous incident of ceasefire violation by Pakistani rangers in J & K. We are just protesting in Flag meetings between BSF and Pakistani rangers. Why government of India not allowing BSF to take retaliatory measures?
There are many other issues which I will highlight in my next post. I would request members to share their views.
regards