Human Rights Asia Final Report on AFSPA & Army

Here is a through analysis of AFSPA from Human Rights  perspective including 168 references and notes from authoritative sources

Can any one find any argument against this  authoritative analysis.

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   1. The Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, 1958 in

   www.humanrights.asia/.../AFSPA1958Review-Aug2011.pd... - Indonesia

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Just because our Army commander claims that "it is NOT  Draconian" does not make it humane.

How many of the members of the military have read this?
How many of the members of INEX have read this?
I guarantee, the answer is not even one!

Let me quote Maj Gen Rajendra Prakash:Thus, debates based on crass ignorance of ground realities are harmful for the community- it is like banning a book or a movie without having read/seen them. Soldiers are quite clear on where they stand on AFPSA, but is everyone else?

Really?
Why are we losing all our rational ability to judge for ourselves?
Why are we more brutal than the colonial power that ruled us?
Why should not the NE and & J & K feel brutalised at this law that abolishes  protection of  Constitution & laws and rights of the citizen?
Why should  Kashmir and NE be alienated with such draconian law that immunises protection of laws not for an emergency but for decades?
Why can't we realise that it is NOT in our own interest?

Is it "Vinash Kale Viparith budhy?"

When Churchill said the following words in the British Parliament in the debate on the Jallianwallah Bag massacre , he was not referring to independent India imposing its will on NE & J & K:

"Governments who have seized upon power by violence and by usurpation have often resorted to terrorism in their desperate efforts to keep what they have stolen, but the august and venerable structure of the British Empire, where lawful authority descends from hand to hand and generation after generation, does not need such aid. Such ideas are absolutely foreign to the British way of doing things."


By  Army insisting of AFSPA while political masters wanted to remove it, Army has done a biggest disservice to all men in uniform past and present and the nation because it is not in the Army's own interest. To day Army is being perceived as the enemy terrorising the citizen of  these disturbed areas, not the actual terrorist! Perception is everything.

It should have been the other way. Instead of Army  being looked upon the saviour, we are thwarting attempts by the political authority in removing this draconian law from even "parts of the valley".

How sad! Even if we have little loyalty to the uniform we wore, we should oppose this Draconian law that dispenses with protection of all laws.

We should have made CM come begging to the Army to establish law and order!
Instead we allowed him to be the hero and we the villain!

My  heart aches at our stupidity and naivete.
Nath