Stop demonising the Army in Kashmir

Had it not been for the extremists and their violent agenda, Jammu & Kashmir would have been another peaceful State with an international border, writes Neelakantan. Much outrage is being expressed over a new book, The Meadow, authored by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark, which puts the blame on a high profile abduction and killing of five foreign tourists in Kashmir in the late 90s on the Indian Army and security agencies. The first assumption ,of course, is that this is indeed true, since, as an eminent journalist pointed out in his piece, this has never been spoken about at all — which is a rarity in a world that is notoriously known for ‘open secrets’.

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