Hi PAFAce,
No matter how noble the intentions of the militants, when they are not under control of state forces or made accountable for their actions they quickly devolve to armed groups causing havoc. Its the same for groups who do it in the name of Islam as well.
As I have mentioned previously, the bulk of local Kashmiri fighters who had a pro-independance secular outlook (It even had Hindu and sikh kashmiri militants) gave up the fight with the end of JKLF's militancy. They gave up violence in 95 and among other reasons, they were targeted by more fanatic groups like Hizb, LeT and HUJI who were pro-pakistan.
Currently as per J&K govt. estimates, 95% of militants are foreigners.
http://www.defence.pk/forums/kashmir-war/41603-95-militants-kashmir-outside-ghulam-nabi-azad.html
Infact many former Kashmiri militants who surrendered made up part of the J&K police and the SOG. Some took shelter under a general amnesty and rehab program launched by the Mufit govt. Because of this many militants who were hiding out in the PAkistani side surrendered on the border to return home.
Some stories are here
24 militants from other side ‘return’ home
Kashmiri militants in PaK want to return home
Kashmiri youth languishing in Pak militant camps desperate to return home
Infact, more muslims are killed in militant attacks (partly because its easier to target the police rather than army or paramilitary forcers). These also include pro-India politicians and govt. officials, anti-militant villagers as well as the regular folks that die when suicide bombing or car bombs are detonated.Moreover, we have the disgruntled locals who tipoff the police and who have been intimidated and coerced into providing shelter and food or to "marry" of their daughters to militants. These civilians are called "spies" and "munafiqs" and fair game to be killed.
http://www.defence.pk/forums/kashmi...lled-kashmir-militants-kashmiri-official.html
Another recent report where LeT has "suspended" its operation against security force (Looks like they are not man enough to fight them?) and have taken the task to target the "spies" within i.e. the local civilians
LeT posters in Kishtwar
With the advent of foreign militants, mainly Pakistani, but also chechen uzbek and afghan militants, the situation got more and more brutal. This article from 2004 lists a few such cases.
Kashmir, Where Beheadings Also Strike Fear: Asia times online
And if we had any doubts on where the militancy was headed, here is a report in 2001 where Laskar-e-Jabar announced acid attacks on girls and women who didn't wear the "Islamic dress"
BBC News|South Asia|Kashmir women face acid attacks
Is this really shocking that the "Kashmiri mujahideen" could be so brutal? The situation on the ground is that as long as the TTP types had an outlet in Kashmir they had nothing to do in Pakistan. Once Musharraf completely blocked their access to Kashmir, you saw the rise of extremists groups attacking GoP and PA itself. That is why I insist on calling them nothing but TTP clones. These militants are different from sepratists in Kashmir who don't take up violence like the Hurriyet group even though they might be some links. The Hurriyet party members consists of locals while foreigners make up the bulk of militants.
Now about the J&K police aiding the "occupiers". I would say that is a slippery slope. As I have mentioned previously, as long as the J&K govt. and GoI provides full freedom to practice and preach Islam, there is no cause for separatism Islamically and hence no Jihad either. This view is endoresed by many ulema including the Grand mufit of J&K and was interestingly also the view of Maududi the founder of JI. (However, JI under Qazi became the foremost to make a mess out of Kashmir once he established his monopoly on it)
The Hizb, LeT e.t.c are foreigners fighting to establish a so called "Islamic state" with sharia rule in Kashmir. So is the TTP in Pakistan and the Afghan Taliban in Afghanistan. And so is the East Turkistan movement in Xinjiang and the IMU in Uzbekistan.
This concept of political Islam itself is highly unIslamic. But that is a different topic. What I wanted to draw your attention to is that if J&K police who consist of locals and fight mainly foreign militants are some how aiding the occupiers then arn't the PA and GoP aiding the "occupiers" in Afghanistan? What about the drone attack and the NATO supplies? The Chinese govt. and any Chinese/Uighurs Muslim officials would be in the same boat.
The Kashmir solution can not and should not be resolved by giving into armed militant groups like LeT, Hizb e.t.c. because that will not only be problematic for India but even worse for Pakistan and surrounding areas as these extremists forces get a fillip.
Regarding BSF or Army officials or even J&K police committing human rights violation, they should be tried and punished if its true. There are even cases where J&K judiciary and GoI have gone to extradite former Army majors from the US to try them in court
Ex-major faces arrest for kidnap, murder charges
Similarly BSF and paramilitary officials do get arrested in some cases. However, I would admit that its not foolproof. And I hope you can understand that although J&K police should aim for a high standard there are bad apples and you will have cases of corruption, use of excessive force in the heat of the moment e.t.c. But to say that BSF or Army officials go scot free is wrong. Infact according to SOPs, Army or BSF or any other paramilitary force can't arrest or search property unless they are doing a join ops with the J&K police.