Not everything. Some things. There is no trigger happy policy, for instance; there are 1400 security forces men injured. If there had been a trigger happy policy, they would not have been in hospital.
Give the security forces proper gear for Riot and Crowd control and the injured would have been very less in number. Its not like the protesters had lethal weapons like assault rifles, grenades etc
Children being killed is really regrettable.
Its regrettable to me because these were not child-soldiers armed with AK's. Trigger-Happy made no discrimination.
For pellets to kill a human being, they need to have been fired from a very close distance. There are two ways of looking at this. One is that a cartridge was fired; the other is that it was fired at very close quarters, at a mob that was pressing very close to a small squad and had already injured someone in that squad. Most of the incidents were like that.
This has mis-management written all over it.
First the Kashmiri people are angered due to killing of Burhan Wani. Unable to bring that control, extreme measures are brought in place which brings more death and further misery. It seems the GOI was not prepared for such a back-lash which shows their incompetency in handling Kashmir.
The normal riot control or mob control procedures include baton charge, pressure water spray, tear gas, dogs, aerial firing etc. Even all these non-lethal measures can injure numerous people.
The use of pellets can surely injure a person and can also kill, if fired repeatedly at sensitive parts of human body like head etc. The injuries sustained by people show firing of full cartridges especially on the back side which means fleeing from the scene were repeatedly fired upon and targeted by security forces.
If a person is fleeing and his back is being targeted, is it a life threatening situation for security forces? i dont think so.
If a mob is coming close to endanger security forces, was a pellet gun the only weapon given to security forces to break them up? as per you explanation, it seems like it. The security forces would have then indiscriminately targeted faces, necks, chests, heads of kashmiri people to save own lives. But why were other procedures not in place that probably would not have cause deaths in tight situations.
A mob turning up on a small squad armed with pellet guns means that mob was not afraid of the pellet guns. Probably they had seen bigger weapons carried by security forces.If the kids, teens, young adults are facing up to security forces like this means the next generation is getting prepared by India itself to stand up to any GOI backed cruelty in kashmir.
A child who pelts a stone at soldier today will fire a bullet at soldier tomorrow.
Pakistan Army has set a very good example by winning the hearts of distraught Pakistani people in tribal and rural areas instead of brutality and firing. Pakistani Army created welfare projects and educational institutions after winning confidence of people.This is why throngs of militants surrender and the affected areas have been cleared.
The process of IDP's management is another eye opener for international community and India can learn from it too. It seems the Indian security forces just went in kashmir to cause maximum damage to Kashmiris. The mission was successful too, they caused many injured and few dead but Indian security forces hardly won hearts of the populations.
Every time I see these type of threads my blood boils. ISI should identify each and every army men involved in killings and rape in Kashmir while keeping track on their movement aboard.No matter even If they are retired we should not spare them/ When they come visit another country kill them there. They are terrorists. If Israel can conduct such operation in Germany why cant we do it?
Why ISI? why Pakistani forces?
No way.
where is the rest of the muslim world?
where is KSA? Egypt? UAE? Oman? Qatar? where is GCC?
where is Iran?