Srinagar, Mar 16: Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police (DGP) R R Swain said that the big change after the abrogation of Article 370 was going beyond merely neutralizing the man with the gun. It was about addressing the root causes of terrorism and its entire ecosystem.
In an interview with national news channel, DGP Swain said it was always important to fight the men with the gun because it was immediate in nature.
“As I always say that you will get tired because there is incessant supply of water, poisonous toxic water. So, when we say fighting the terror, it should be against the ecosystem. You should go beyond and find out where is the supply, where the source of this toxic water unless you disrupt that you will get tired and that is what exactly the enemy was aiming at,” he said.
DGP Swain said the enemy’s strategy was very simple that they will wear out the Indian state by making it spend more and more.
“There was a challenge before abrogation of Article due to interference of political parties as we were not properly able to ask the house owner where terrorists were killed. It is wrong to say that all house owners were not giving shelter to terrorists due to fear and it was not true. The police were unable to investigate other areas in this manner,” he said.
Reacting to a question, whether political parties were acting as a stumbling block preventing police from taking action against the terrorist in the past and now there is no such how do you get involved in this?
DGP Swain said, in the past, there was no one to question those who used to glorify terrorism and mostly the youth were trapped due to these reasons.
“As per data around 20 thousand youth who were killed in terrorism in valley and most of them belong to poor families. No one was investigating, who was glorifying the terrorism, who gave them gun and majority were school dropouts.”
