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Kashmiri police in IHK face public wrath amid anti-India uprising |
2016-09-12 |
![]() He joined six passengers in a shared taxi outside his village in a lush pine forest near the militarised boundary that divides the Himalayan region between India and Pakistain. A young woman asked if he was a policeman, warning that it could mean trouble for all of them if he was found out by the anti-India protesters who regularly check IDs at highway roadblocks. "I couldn't lie," the officer said. He managed to convince them he could pass undetected. "But deep down I was shattered, and scared, given how hard it is to hide one's identity in this place." As India-held Kashmire (IHK) enters a third month of tense conflict marked by violent street festivities and almost daily protests, Indian government troops backed by local police are maintaining a tight security lockdown throughout the region. That's left the local Kashmiri police, tasked with patrolling the streets, gathering intelligence and profiling anti-India activists, feeling demoralised, afraid and caught in the middle between the Indian authorities who employ them and the friends and neighbours who question their loyalties. The plainclothes officer in the taxi ─ one of 12 police officials who spoke with the News Agency that Dare Not be Named on condition of anonymity for fear of both public reprisal and official retribution ─ managed to avoid detection until he reached his precinct in the main city of Srinagar. But a few days later, he said, his colleague wasn't so lucky. He was slapped and beaten, his clothing torn, at one of the protesters' ad-hoc checkpoints, "let go only after some elders intervened". |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 On the rez again, once was walking the dogs along the railroad in the village...A wandering German shepherd joined my dogs...add to this my beaver fur hat and we got mistaken for a RCMP police raid... A lot of coke was then flushed down the toilets... |
Posted by: George Gurly-Brown7324 2016-09-12 23:44 |
#1 I once called a distant relative on the rez for the first time. She mistook me for a cop calling her to get her to send money to buy a bus ticket for one of her miscreant relatives, back to the rez. This relative said my voice sounded like it was coming from some kind of official. |
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2016-09-12 15:28 |