India choose KPS Gill, a ruthless Sikh Policeman, to deal with the Khalastani terrorist movement in the 1980's. He broke the back of Sikh militancy. His police did what the Indian army could not do. This article is a whine from a human rights activist. It is a sobering look at what is necessary to crush militancy.
Human rights activists allege the police picked up thousands of young men—some confirmed militants, some sympathisers and many innocents—from across the state, killed them in cold blood and despatched them as unidentified corpses to various crematoriums across the state. There were more weighed down in canals and rivers. No one knows how many disappeared in this manner. However, 2,097 illegal cremations, pertaining to just three crematoriums in Amritsar district—Durgyana Mandir, Municipal Committee and Tarn Taran—have been confirmed by a CBI investigation. |