Collective retribution: NC MP Ruhulla slams Kashmir arrest spree

Posted by admin_kas on 2025-02-05 15:13:41 |

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Srinagar Feb 05: National Conference Member Parliament Ruhullah Mehdi on Wednesday reacted to the arrest spree in Kulgam and termed the move as collective retribution.

Taking to his micro blogging site, MP Ruhullah Mehdi said that he was briefed about reports of over 500 individuals being rounded up by the SOG in sweeping nocturnal raids across Kashmir.

"The number is suspected to be much higher in actuality. I fail to imagine the terror of a family whose loved ones now lie in the abyss of an opaque security system," he wrote on X 

"This is not security. This is punishment by exile," the post reads.

He condemned the attack on the Territorial Army soldier and his family.

"I unequivocally condemn the attack. Violence, especially against women and children, is abhorrent. But to punish an entire population for the crimes of a few is not counterterrorism - it is collective retribution," he wrote on X.

The post further reads that establishments in Kashmir and in Delhi need to arrive at a common denominator as far as conducting operations in Kashmir is concerned.

"The use of vague, legally unsound terminology such as OGWs, Hybrid Militants to justify human rights violations must be shunned," he said.

Ruhullah said that no regime in the world has successfully governed a population by making itself the "object of its people's fear and resentment."

He "strongly reminded" the establishment of the moral calculus at play here.

"If you must rule by repression, then you have already lost your legitimacy. If your idea of democracy is a valley silenced by fear rather than engaged in dialogue, then your democracy lies in darkness," he said.