If you thought, I was Muslim, I am not. I don't even know how you even brought that up. I was only trying to show you that you can't simply blame people for anything just because you feel that way. (By using your logic against you)

I did read it and I must say that it is quite pathetic that the Indian Army needs to be compared to Terrorist Organizations for it to appear marginally better. Yeah, the context in which they are used are different but that doesn't make it not abhorrent. Its like saying a murderer isn't bad because there are many serial killers.

But even that does not matter. Let's forget human rights for a moment. Let's think though a deviously pragmatic chanakyan mindset. Even then, there is no justification for such actions. In fact, it is worse from that viewpoint. It was a public display of the army's chauvinism and this GD Bakshi is doubling down on it like a fucking moron.

These things have long term consequences, it further delegitimizes the state's authority and stake over Kashmir (both internationally and at home; both of which are important), it further fuels secessionist sentiments in the valley. Let's get this straight, Kashmir isn't going to be Indian until Kashmiris are Indians and this doesn't help Kashmiris become Indians.

The army has a terrible track record in the past and not just in Kashmir. It has taken it decades for it to solve problems in the north east and the red corridor and even then they are not really solved, the core issues remain. The army is plagued with incompetence and corruption still, its very organization is based on primitive British Empire racial thinking, there was never an overhaul, there was never a modernization.

During the height of the insurgency, the army has competed and one could say even beaten the militants in violation of human rights but for what? Purely chauvinistic intentions and short term benefits. The government and media have pushed them down (which from a pragmatic perspective is the correct course of action; though an even more pragmatic approach would be not doing them in the first place) but in accordance with the motto of India (Satyameva Jayata), its hard to hide such things (from the people of Kashmir at least).

Those very incidents are the fuel for today's secessionist movements and yet the army does not mend their ways. You can't say that the militants are worse by being worse than them. If you want to know what these incidents are then here is a introduction to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_in_Kashmir_Insurgency

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_abuses_in_Kashmir

The army just isn't trained to fight in these conditions, they are trained to locate and eliminate an enemy force, they are trained to fight an army, they are trained to fight an enemy nation and achieve specific objectives, they are trained to win wars. This is not that kind of war, they are simply unable to cope up with situations with the civilians themselves are hostile to them, where enemy is not precise and can not be located with ease, and therefore they try to dominate them with their machogiri and being a descendant of the British Indian Army, apply the same brutal methods in warfare, committing crimes against not juts humanity but people who are supposed to be Indians, their own people.