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Monday, July 4, 2011

Who killed Dilshan?

So finally it has been proven without doubt that 13-year-old Dilshan was killed by a bullet. Unless that bullet was fired by his teenaged friends who had accompanied him to get some almonds from the army compound it could have been fired by a security personnel.
It is no rocket science to establish as to who fired the bullet. There is a need to do a ballistic test on the bullet and the determine which bore was used. Was it a restricted one or a civilian one.
But the issue here is not this. The issue is to rein in the armed forces. They are not a law unto themselves.
We are still bearing the burden of our imperial past as the Indian armed forces continue to hold fort in major civilian areas and cities. A legacy of the British times when the Royal Indian Army was their way to continue their rule in our country.
With our nation being a democracy it should do away with maintaining huge army cantonments in major cities. And any arguments in favour of maintaining them inside highly populated civilian areas is still stuck in the British past.
There is an urgent need to remove the armed forces from the civilian areas. Though the Indian army is a professional organisation and there is virtually no threat of a take over bid but there is an urgent need to remove them from civilian areas. This will be beneficial for the armed forces and the Indian democracy as well.

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