In continuance to "Indian Armed Forces Vs. Human Rights"

I have received many comments in last few days from readers, on my article Indian Armed Forces Vs. Human Rights, about our better track than China in human rights records or asking whether Indians don’t  have self respect as a nation? Some says that Canada’s moral posturing is strange as they are not showing same behavior towards armed forces of other nations, which are doing more human rights violations (!) than us.

I just want to say that this is not the issue to show our patriotic spirit which gets hurt when a finger is pointed even for real wrong–doings on our part. This is not the question to show loyalty to our country & its forces. It’s the question of universal Human rights. International Charter of Human Rights is there by UN & India is signatory to it.

As far as China & track records of its security forces is concerned, there couldn't be any comparison between track records of China & India considering the very fact that our constitution has clearly defined us a complete democratic state where representatives are chosen by all citizens. Will of citizens is will of government here. However, it is not so with China.

Moreover, it is not the question of comparison first place. Our armed forces had a bad track records, whether it’s black days of Punjab, targeting of Native aadivasis on the name of fighting Maoist terror, or militarization of complete Kashmir Valley. Are we unaware about recent fraudulent encounter of young villagers by an army major & other officers in valley for sake of money? Even J&K police has booked army major for such ruthless killings of young boys who lured to border before encountering them while showing them as terrorists. There are still thousands missings of youths in the valley and they are all feared to be the victims of human right violations of our uniformed forces.

Since the Black days of Punjab there are more than 5000 missings of youths of a particular community, they were all feared to be the victims of atrocities of Police, CRPF, BSF and other forces which were active in Punjab those days.

We are seeing Maoist terror these days. Have you imagined why government forces with so much manpower & ammunition are still not able to get success? The simple reason is due to the large scale human rights violations & atrocities against backward aadivasi natives  by police & other forces in the region, local people have made them loose their trust in our forces, so as result there is a lag of support among natives for the operations of forces against Maoists. And its well accredited fact that no operation in civilian region can be successful without native support.

In end I just wish to say, we have to improve our track record rather than wasting energy & time on comparison with others and allowing the heinous crimes against humanity continue just for silly reason that our track is better than others. We are defiantly a country with self respect. That is why I have said that we have to see this denial as an opportunity to introspect the character of our uniformed forces and take steps integrally to make our democratic, socialized and liberal civilization proud.