Ep 242: India's Security State
The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma
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The business of militancy was flourishing in Kashmir during the nineties. The secret compounds tarnished the credentials of indian democracy while feeding the ranks of militancy. As it pumped in more money and ance into cashmir india, increased its own deployment of security forces and created even more interrogation centres. Meanwhile, pakisan had established an efficient network of informents, couriers, gossip mongers and overground workers with extensive funding channels. To some extent, after the invasion of irak went out of a wak, you don't fight ter insurgency just by defeating that proximate bunch of people who turn up as militants. It involves really getting the local people on
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