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State Congress here on Tuesday asked security forces to be patient while dealing with civilians in Kashmir Valley.
Pointing out that he is not the one who will politicize Monday’s incident involving death of two car borne youth in firing by security forces in the Valley, state Congress president Prof Saifuddin Soz said that army personnel should have taken care in the matter as ‘killing people with the intention of killing them is not a good policy. They should have fired in the air or on tyre of the vehicle, he said when asked what the army personnel would have done when the motorists had ignored their signal to stop at the naka and tried to drive away the vehicle.
They could have seen that there were no militants or there was no threat to them, Soz said, adding that the army rightly expressed regrets for that and that they have also instituted an inquiry into the incident. However, security forces must be patient about things and also their movement there, he added.
Pointing out that army have a “very brilliant track record in the Valley, he said that there were Generals like K.M. Cariappa and K.S. Thimayya who apart from being army generals were also servants of the people. “They made them understand that the Army is a friend of them, he said, adding that such activities, however, bring lot of wrath of the people and create anger in their mind.
“We are facing an election and I think that jawans lost their cool. It was neither the situation nor any threat making the jawans to open fire, he added. However, it has been good that the army general expressed his regrets and very quickly ordered an inquiry into the matter, he added.
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