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The pro-Indian government militia, Ikhwan-ul-Muslimeen—that targeted Pakistan-backed militants in Kashmir—was launched in 1993 by popular folk singer-turned militant Kuka Parray
In Uttar Pradesh, especially, encounter killings have become the new normal and have gained wider acceptability among civilians as well as law enforcement agencies in the past few years.
The culture of rifles among Adivasis, aided by the ever-increasing deployment of paramilitary forces, has permanently mutated the central Indian forests in Chhattisgarh.
The highest levels of government keep encouraging police, paramilitary and army units to eliminate "undesirables" even as the public cheers the rogue elements from the sidelines
The secret killings are not the first cases of alleged extrajudicial killings in Assam. Since the 1990s, individual cases of extrajudicial killings have been reported in the state.
Updated: 20 Jun 2020 1:21 pm
In the hills and valleys of the Northeast, as the saying goes, politics gets as fickle as the weather in the region. It took the BJP barely three years to find out that it’s easier to rise to the top than stay put. And this is only about Manipur.
On June 18, the Congress staked claim to form a government in the Northeastern state, a day after the BJP-led government was reduced to a minority in dramatic and quick-changing developments.
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