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New Delhi tries to douse Kashmir fires with a sop
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SRINAGAR: After the rape and murder of two Kashmiri women by Indian security forces  personnel and days after the kashmiri Valley seethed in rage against Indian response of curfew, firing and CRPF men going berserk, there is now effort on for some damage control. India’s Union Home Minister P Chidambaram has indicated a possible reduction in the role of CRPF and gradual handing over of law and order to the J and K police. Kashmir is going through the convulsions that one stage Punjab went through when the central security forces went virtually on a killing spree. In the case of Punjab, even the Punjab Police later on became a force infamous of fake encounters and torture, earning an image of lawless force which it has not been able to live off even today. Chidambaram visited the Valley last Thursday and co-chaired a meeting of the so-called Unified Headquarters with Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.

Abdullah was badly in need of some soothing words from Chidambaram as the handling of the Shopian violence has brought the government much loss of face. Chidambaram has asked the top officials of the J&K police and the Central Reserve Police Force to work out a joint strategy to replace the latter. It is learnt that New Delhi now wants to see that the police perform all the essential police functions relating to maintenance of law and order. The National Conference in Kashmir is running a government with the backing of the UPA but withing weeks of coming to power, the goodwill that the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections had generated seems to have evaporated with ruthless state violence.

17 June  2009
 

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