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Page 1 The Hindu Analysis: 6 May 2020 1) Dangerous drift: on encounter with terrorists near Handwara- CONTEXT: The deaths last Saturday of four soldiers and a police officer in an encounter with terrorists near Handwara town in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, call attention to a difficult summer ahead. It is unusual and disproportionate for just a couple of terrorists to take down five highly skilled and motivated soldiers in a firefight. The details on offer are sketchy(not clear), yet provide compelling(valid) evidence of an operation that went horribly wrong. Page 2 The Hindu Analysis: 6 May 2020 1) Dangerous drift: on encounter with terrorists near Handwara- CONTEXT: The deaths last Saturday of four soldiers and a police officer in an encounter with terrorists near Handwara town in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, call attention to a difficult summer ahead. It is unusual and disproportionate for just a couple of terrorists to take down five highly skilled and motivated soldiers in a firefight. The details on offer are sketchy(not clear), yet provide compelling(valid) evidence of an operation that went horribly wrong. Page 3 The Hindu Analysis: 6 May 2020 1) Dangerous drift: on encounter with terrorists near Handwara- CONTEXT: The deaths last Saturday of four soldiers and a police officer in an encounter with terrorists near Handwara town in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, call attention to a difficult summer ahead. It is unusual and disproportionate for just a couple of terrorists to take down five highly skilled and motivated soldiers in a firefight. The details on offer are sketchy(not clear), yet provide compelling(valid) evidence of an operation that went horribly wrong. OPERATION GOING WRONG: On Saturday afternoon, receiving intelligence that terrorists were present in a house in Changimulla village, five highly skilled and motivated soldiers reached the site which had a building and a cowshed adjoining it, and an intense firefight commenced(started). All the enemy fire came from the cowshed, not the building. Then there was a lull(silence) for more than an hour during which the team apparently decided to approach the house and use the vantage(point of advantage) of the upper floor to fire at the terrorists in the cowshed. They entered the house and there was a fresh firefight but no communication from the Colonel and his team. Then it was noticed that their communication instrument was being used by the terrorists. That is when realisation came all was not well, and firing ensued(followed) all over again. This time when it was over, there were seven bodies. RAMIFICATIONS ON MORALE AND OPERATING PROCEDURES: The way this operation ended will have ramifications(consequence), on both morale and operating procedures, on future operations of this kind that go on all Page 4 The Hindu Analysis: 6 May 2020 1) Dangerous drift: on encounter with terrorists near Handwara- CONTEXT: The deaths last Saturday of four soldiers and a police officer in an encounter with terrorists near Handwara town in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, call attention to a difficult summer ahead. It is unusual and disproportionate for just a couple of terrorists to take down five highly skilled and motivated soldiers in a firefight. The details on offer are sketchy(not clear), yet provide compelling(valid) evidence of an operation that went horribly wrong. OPERATION GOING WRONG: On Saturday afternoon, receiving intelligence that terrorists were present in a house in Changimulla village, five highly skilled and motivated soldiers reached the site which had a building and a cowshed adjoining it, and an intense firefight commenced(started). All the enemy fire came from the cowshed, not the building. Then there was a lull(silence) for more than an hour during which the team apparently decided to approach the house and use the vantage(point of advantage) of the upper floor to fire at the terrorists in the cowshed. They entered the house and there was a fresh firefight but no communication from the Colonel and his team. Then it was noticed that their communication instrument was being used by the terrorists. That is when realisation came all was not well, and firing ensued(followed) all over again. This time when it was over, there were seven bodies. RAMIFICATIONS ON MORALE AND OPERATING PROCEDURES: The way this operation ended will have ramifications(consequence), on both morale and operating procedures, on future operations of this kind that go on all the time in this shadowy theatre of proxy war. It is certainly a coincidence that has not gone unnoticed that though the encounter ended tragically, news or details of it did not percolate(spread), till well after Sunday’s fly past and show of solidarity. (A proxy war is an armed conflict between two states or non-state actors which act on the instigation or on behalf of other parties that are not directly involved in the hostilities) UNHEALTHY VACUUM: It should be evident by now to most that changing the nomenclature and status of J&K has not addressed any of the underlying causes of unrest and angst(anger). Neither has it deterred(prevented) Pakistan from its steadfast(constant) goals. Since the beginning of the year, in 127 days, as many as 55 terrorists have been killed in the region, roughly one encounter every two days. In the unhealthy vacuum(gap) that New Delhi has created since August 5 last year, such encounters have done nothing other than aid(help) the impulse(urge) of the disaffected to embrace(use) arms. Page 5 The Hindu Analysis: 6 May 2020 1) Dangerous drift: on encounter with terrorists near Handwara- CONTEXT: The deaths last Saturday of four soldiers and a police officer in an encounter with terrorists near Handwara town in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kupwara district, call attention to a difficult summer ahead. It is unusual and disproportionate for just a couple of terrorists to take down five highly skilled and motivated soldiers in a firefight. The details on offer are sketchy(not clear), yet provide compelling(valid) evidence of an operation that went horribly wrong. OPERATION GOING WRONG: On Saturday afternoon, receiving intelligence that terrorists were present in a house in Changimulla village, five highly skilled and motivated soldiers reached the site which had a building and a cowshed adjoining it, and an intense firefight commenced(started). All the enemy fire came from the cowshed, not the building. Then there was a lull(silence) for more than an hour during which the team apparently decided to approach the house and use the vantage(point of advantage) of the upper floor to fire at the terrorists in the cowshed. They entered the house and there was a fresh firefight but no communication from the Colonel and his team. Then it was noticed that their communication instrument was being used by the terrorists. That is when realisation came all was not well, and firing ensued(followed) all over again. This time when it was over, there were seven bodies. RAMIFICATIONS ON MORALE AND OPERATING PROCEDURES: The way this operation ended will have ramifications(consequence), on both morale and operating procedures, on future operations of this kind that go on all the time in this shadowy theatre of proxy war. It is certainly a coincidence that has not gone unnoticed that though the encounter ended tragically, news or details of it did not percolate(spread), till well after Sunday’s fly past and show of solidarity. (A proxy war is an armed conflict between two states or non-state actors which act on the instigation or on behalf of other parties that are not directly involved in the hostilities) UNHEALTHY VACUUM: It should be evident by now to most that changing the nomenclature and status of J&K has not addressed any of the underlying causes of unrest and angst(anger). Neither has it deterred(prevented) Pakistan from its steadfast(constant) goals. Since the beginning of the year, in 127 days, as many as 55 terrorists have been killed in the region, roughly one encounter every two days. In the unhealthy vacuum(gap) that New Delhi has created since August 5 last year, such encounters have done nothing other than aid(help) the impulse(urge) of the disaffected to embrace(use) arms. CONCLUSION: As the dangerous drift(divide) in J&K continues, New Delhi must realise it has reached the point of diminishing(low) returns and should look for ways to arrest this trend. Encounters in Kashmir are on the rise, taking a disproportionate toll(count) on security personnel. 2) The mark of zero: On containment of COVID-19 cases in Kerala- CONTEXT: With containment(action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits) strategies in place even before the first case of novel coronavirus was detected on January 30, Kerala appears to have finally hammered(hit) the curve flat. On May 1, for the first time, the State reported zero new cases, and again on two consecutive days — May 3 and May 4.Read More
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