Around 44 CRPF personnel were killed during a JeM-led terror attack at Pulwama district in Jammu and Kashmir. The gruesome and inhumane attack has left the whole nation shell-shocked. Currently, every opposition party has come out in support of BJP-led Central government. Social media has been flooded with their reaction. From paying tributes to assuring the compensation money for martyrs’ families, the government is putting their best foot forward in providing help to the needy ones.
Unfortunately, the number of the martyrs is continuously rising. Presently, the number of deaths, according to a leading daily, is 40. Indeed, the heart-wrenching attack is irreparable for the martyrs’ families. Indian government is also making sure to leave no stone unturned to give a befitting reply to the perpetrators of the attack.
Detailing the analysis of the past years, in the year 2017 itself, many terrorist attacks took place. From GREF district to Kupwara district, the valley had suffered a large-scale destruction with terror. According to the Lok Sabha estimates, between the year, 2014 and 2018, terrorist incidents in J&K have witnessed a rise of 176%. A shocking estimate has come to the fore that every month, 11 terrorists infiltrate into J&K.
Now, it seems like it’s no surprise to witness such attacks. Already, the issues such as rapes, child trafficking, communalism, and Dalit rights seem to be a headache for the government. These issues seem to be adding more responsibility on the ministers’ shoulders. Every year, these attacks have been reported. Not in a single year have the headlines given a miss to terrorist attacks. Seems like it has become a ritual to face such massive destruction. Every year, a painful recorder of speech starts playing, filled with heartfelt emotions for the martyrs and their families.
After launching the surgical strikes in the year 2016, Modi and his party colleagues believed that the unprecedented (only in terms of declaration) surgical strikes were the strategic panacea to ending infiltration, ceasefire violations and violence by terrorist proxies in Kashmir.
However, the gruesome attacks continued in the valley. Here are some info-graphics:
In 2019, Prime Minister Modi stated in a hard-hitting speech that “forces behind this act of terrorism and those responsible for it would pay a ‘very heavy price’ and had made a ‘big mistake’.”
In the year 2018, suspected Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists attacked the Sunjwan army camp in Jammu and Kashmir, in which two jawans, including a Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO), were killed and four others were injured.
It was followed by a flood of condemnation from the government. All the ministers poured out their heartfelt condolences to the jawans. The Congress appealed to the Prime Minister to personally supervise the operation and ensure that these terrorists are gunned down and give the armed forces every possible help in this regard.
In 2017, when Amarnath pilgrims were killed in Kashmir, Prime Minister Modi said that his thoughts are with all those who lost their loved ones in the attack in J&K. His prayers with the injured. India will never get bogged down by such cowardly attacks & the evil designs of hate.
In his 2016 Independence speech, in reference to the human rights situation in Pakistan’s Balochistan province besides Gilgit and other areas of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, Modi stated that violence has no place. India will not tolerate terrorism and Maoist violence.
With the current situation, it seems like every second life is in danger in the valley; the sense of security is negligible, irrespective of the heavy deployment of forces in the area. Seeing the security forces themselves being killed is even more heart-wrenching.
This brings to all of us to think of certain questions such as – is there any end to such violent attacks? How many innocent lives are to be lost? How many death cries do we have to listen to?