FrontlinekashmirThe  only country in the world, other than Israel, to have acquired land  through conflict or intimidation after the end of World War 2 is India.  Israel has the excuse at least that in some of their conflicts with the  Arabs they pre-empted imminent aggression and thus were not the  aggressor per se. In the South Asian sub-continent, India has openly  coveted (and/or made designs to take possession thereof) before actually  annexing their neighbour or their prime real estate. In every incident  of aggression, care was taken to garb the nakedly expansionist moves  under some camouflage or the other.
EXTERNAL TERRORISMThe first to fall into India's grip was 
Kashmir, the legal  subterfuge used was the Maharaja's Letter of Accession. This was  followed by military intervention to annex Hyderabad, Junagadh and  Manawadar in 1948. In 1960 it was the turn of the Portuguese possessions  of Goa, Daman and Diu in a farcical war. The smaller princely States of  India were just taken over lock, stock and barrel at the appropriate  time. As the world started to look askance at naked aggression, India  turned increasingly to subterfuge.
 In 1968 they formed the Research  and Analytical Wing (RAW) whose main purpose at that time was to  organise covert operations in Bangladesh, in this they were actively  supported by the Border Security Forces (BSF) whose Deputy Director  General (DDG), in this case Brig Pande, was based at Calcutta with an  alternate HQs in 91 BSF at Agartala for operational purposes. With  the creation of RAW, India turned from naked aggression to  sophistication in the pursuit of its ambitions. RAW became involved in  covert operations in all the peripheral countries around India. 
While  RAW's role in the creation of Bangladesh did not get much attention,  its operatives were in constant contact with hard-core India  sympathizers within Awami League (AL) such as Tajuddin, Nazrul Islam,  etc. Through these surrogates RAW maintained pressure on Sheikh  Mujibur Rehman whenever he started weakening in his anti-Pakistan  stance. After 1971, RAW retained its interest in Bangladesh, raising a  parallel military organisation loyal to AL (and India) known as the  Rakhi Bahini headed by Brig Nuruzzaman. As a Captain of the Pakistan  Army, Nuruzzaman had undergone trial for treason in the famous Agartala  Conspiracy Case. Though they were better armed and organised than the  Bangladesh Armed Forces, the Rakhi Bahini was easily disarmed and  demobilised by the Bangladesh Army post-Mujib. RAW agents have since  become a permanent factor for destabilisation in Bangladesh, having  subverted the loyalties of a large segment of the Hindu population.  After Sheikh Mujib was assassinated, they re-created the 1971 vintage  Kader Bahini led by the infamous Kader Siddiqui who operated from Indian  territory from 1975 to 1985 and constantly troubled the Zia Regime (and  later the Ershad regime) with many instances of terrorism. Today India  sustains the Chakma revolt against Bangladesh in the Chittagong Hill  Tracts by supporting the Shanti Bahini which makes cross border raids  from training and logistics camps in the Indian Tripura State at  Amarpur, Sabroom and opposite Baghban-Tilla.
Westerners were captivated by the marriage of the American Ms Hope  Cooke with the ruler of the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim in the early  60s. Set in a fairytale Shangri-La atmosphere Sikkim became known as  one of free world's remaining ancient monarchies. But trouble incited  by RAW was brewing from 1973 onwards. RAW planted agents in Gangtok,  Mangain, Namchi and Gyalshing for cultivating sympathisers who would fan  disturbances against the reigning monarch and would then 'request' for  Indian help against the 'despot'. Just in case the anti-monarchist ploy  did not work, RAW was ready with operational data required for military  intervention. On 20 April 1975, the once friendly and peaceful kingdom  of Sikkim became a possession of India.
Bhuttan's  Jigme Wangchuk of the adjacent Himalayan Kingdom took this lesson to  heart and while he clearly pouts at regional official functions he does  not strain too much at the leash and studiously toes the Indian line,  realising that his situation is probably more untenable than his  once-upon-a-time Sikkim Counterpart. Nominally, he remains, along with  the 
Maldives, as showpiece independent nations and the only ones  on India's periphery 'without' problems with India. Just in case that he  should ever dream otherwise, the Kingdom is prone to inspired pro-India  riots from time to time. This domino will fall eventually or may not  depending upon whether the Indians want to keep the showpiece going.
Nepal is  the only Hindu Kingdom in the world. King Bhirendhra ran afoul of India  because of his independent stance on regional policies. Previously  known as an annexe of India, Nepal opened out to the world in the late  70s and early 80s. 
RAW was mandated by the Indian Government to bring  Nepal into line. The first set was that India used a pretext to halt  all supplies of food, medicine, oil etc. from going to this land-locked  country. In the meantime RAW agents fanned out among anti-monarchist  elements and as the economic blockade took hold, riots broke out all  over Nepal escalating into full fledged political confrontation between  the monarchy and the electorate. 
Acts of terrorism, including the explosions of bombs, sabotage of installations, attacks on prominent personalities, etc.  proliferated. Faced with the possibility of large-scale anarchy and  even take-over by India on the Sri Lanka pattern, the King opted to  become a constitutional monarch and a 'friendly' government came to  power in Nepal. This was a blatant interference in the internal affairs  of another nation, RAW was used as the terror weapon.
Burma  has not escaped interference from India. Having a long border with  India, Burma is bedevilled by independence movements that freely roam  across international borders. Such cross border operations have meant  that Burmese troops have been engaged on yet another front to secure the  country's frontiers
. There is concern in Bangladesh that RAW agents  were behind the trouble in Arakan Province that has resulted in 250,000  Arakanese Muslim refugees crossing over to Bangladesh. Normally  Burma and Bangladesh enjoy excellent relations but this refugee problem  has become a sore point that has almost led to war between the two  countries.
The paradise that once was
 Sri Lanka is a case of the full force  of application of the so-called Indira Doctrine, that this whole region  is an area of unrestricted Indian influence. T
he former Chief of RAW,  Kao, was mandated by Indira Gandhi to repeat the Bangladesh story and  bring the Sri Lankans into line. RAW was given a free hand to  destabilise the island republic, a country so at peace with itself and  its neighbours that it had a maximum of only two or three active  military units (less than 5,000 men under arms). The Chief Minister of  Tamil Nadu, Ramachandra, gave his consent to RAW setting up Tamil rebel  camps at Ganda and Gorakhpur. Tamils were trained to bring about an  armed rebellion to carve a Tamil State out of the predominantly  Sinhalese island. Of the many groups that RAW trained, the most  deadly were the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE) led by  Prabhakaran, which murderously targeted the other fellow ethnic Tamil  Groups in addition to bringing unrestrained terror to the Sinhalese  majority in the island. The full face of terrorism was unleashed in the  cities with car bombs, assassinations etc. killing and maiming thousands  before the Sri Lankan Armed Forces could re-organise themselves and  assert the rule of the law. With their 
LTTE allies ultimately  besieged in the North and North East, the Indians gave the Sri Lankans  an ultimatum to stop their offensive and virtually at the point of gun  signed the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord in 1987. Indian forces started landing  in Sri Lanka as the Indian Peace-Keeping Force (IPKF) to 'enforce' the  peace even before the Accord was signed. This was Pax India-na at its  most blatant. As often happens in a Client Patron relationship, the  Tamil Tigers refused to fall into line with their Indian masters and the  IPKF started to sustain heavy casualties from their former allies. The  Indian Army blamed RAW for not providing accurate information about the  former RAW proteges. The IPKF inadequacy in dealing with the LTTE became  a debacle that forced the Indians to withdraw from Sri Lanka. The Sri  Lankan paradise that once was had now became Hell on Earth, the fighting  between the now 3-4 division strength Sri Lanka Armed Forces (over  100,000 men under arms) and the Tamil Tigers goes bloodily on without  quarter given or taken. As a revenge for having caused innumerable  casualties and horrific damage, the Tamil tigers targeted the man who  had mandated the IPKF to establish Pax-India-na in Sri Lanka, Rajiv  Gandhi. In a classic Tamil Tiger operation, RAW trained operative  assassinated Rajiv Gandhi, the blood cycle had come a complete circle.  This is second time around that it had happened in the same family, the  first being the gunning down of Rajiv's mother by Sikh Bodyguards in the  wake of the storming of the Golden Temple at Amritsar and the killing  of Bhindranewala and his close associates. Bhindranewala shot into fame  from obscurity as a protege of late Sanjay Gandhi, Indira Gandhi's  younger son, who mandated RAW to support his feud. As a sequel to  Rajiv's assassination India closed down all camps and suspended the free  movement of Tamils (now mostly supporter of LTTE) with India, one may  well ask, if this is not an instance of an open display of export of  State terrorism, what is? Unfortunately for India, the Tamils have  plenty of sympathisers in Tamil Nadu and the problems persist, having  come home to roost.
The Indian Ocean farce where 200 Tamil mercenaries from the Ealam  Peoples Revolutionary Liberation Front (EPRLF - another creation of RAW)  were employed to stage a coup against Maldives President Mamoon Abdul  Gayoom is a case in point. President Gayoom was prompted to ask for  Indian help for rescuing his government. Anybody with scant knowledge of  aircraft, ships and logistics would have worked out that the Indian  forces were dispatched to the rescue much before the coup was even  attempted. A grateful Gayoom has given Indian forces a major foothold  deep in the Indian Ocean, a solid landbased aircraft carrier for  dominating the oceanic area figuring in the designs of India hegemony.
Pakistan figures promptly as a major RAW target, with special emphasis  on the separatist Sindhu Desh movement. A wing of the Indian Special  Services Bureau (SSB) has established terrorist camps across the border  from Sindh in Rajasthan in eight major locations, Ganganagar, Jaipur,  Udhampur, Kishangarh, Bikaner, Barmer, Jaiselmer and Gandhinagar.  Services of Hindus who had migrated to India during 1971 and whose  relatives are still living in Sindh are coordinated through a RAW cell  located at Jaipur called the Sindhu Desh Department. With the exit of  the active elements of the Al-Zulfikar Organisation (AZO) from  Afghanistan and Libya, AZO has been taken over lock, stock and barrel by  RAW. The same style of paid gunmen and bomb explosions as was witnessed  in Sri Lanka has been duplicated in Sindh. The cooperation between the  KGB, Khad and RAW to destabilize Pakistan, particularly Sindh during the  decade-old Afghan war, is well documented and known to western  intelligence agencies.
RAW emerges as the  only presently functioning instrument of widescale application of State  terrorism. This is no rogue operation planned by some idealistic nuts  running wild, this is a deliberate implementation of the policy of the  Indian Government to annex and occupy neighbouring countries or to  browbeat them into accepting Indian hegemony. That RAW takes the  initiative to sow anarchy and disorder puts it in a murderous class of  its own.Pakistan's  main claim to fame with respect to being judged guilty of State  terrorism is Kashmir, there is widescale speculation that the US may  declare Pakistan a terrorist State because of supposedly ISI-organised  camps organise guerrillas to cross into Indian occupied Kashmir. The ISI  learnt most of its expertise from close collaboration with the CIA  during the 80s decade Afghan war when Afghan Mujahideen were trained in  guerilla warfare in camps in the border region to liberate Afghanistan  from Soviet yoke. Given the fact of Kashmir's disputed status and  Pakistani emotions, the ISI could well be using that knowledge for  operations in Kashmir but the insurrection within Kashmir is mostly  indigenous, the people's will being spontaneous does not need  orchestration. The ISI and other Pakistani covert agencies are also  accused of providing help to Sikh militants demanding a separate  homeland. Most of the Sikh militants are ex-Indian Army personnel who  mutinied after the Golden Temple was desecrated. Support to them by  Pakistan may be more moral than material in the circumstances.
  Kashmir is another matter, it is freedom struggle and the ISI need not  organise camps since Kashmiris on both sides of the border are committed  to freedom from Indian tutelage and thus would be crossing the border  without official sanction. Even if the sanction is denied, the borders  will remain porous, in the circumstances imposing a clamp down would be  next to impossible.INTERNAL TERRORISMMany people wrongly believe that RAW is used by India only for the  purposes of the State's external policies. RAW has another more vicious  role, to support the security forces within India to cow down its own  population.
Many people in the  outside world are not aware of the Hindu class system, almost 53% of  the population are of the lowest class, the Untouchables. With about 17%  Muslims and 3-4% Christians of various denomination, only about 25-27%  of the population is really enfranchised. Most of the government jobs go  to this minority with a sprinkling drawn from the majority for purposes  of window dressing. The only government employment really  open to the majority population are the menial jobs, even in the Armed  Forces Untouchables, Muslims and Christians are few and far between.  Control of the government at all levels and of the Armed Forces thus  gives the Hindu minority upper class dictatorial authority over the rest  of the population. When VP Singh was PM he tried to overcome this  inequity by enforcing a Quota system, riots broke out all over the  country, mostly fanned by the civil administration. In Delhi most of the  protestors were government servants, this was repeated during the Babri  Masjid riots in December showing BJP's hold. To sustain their rule, the  ruling classes use RAW as a weapon to stamp down dissent, spread  disinformation, political character assassination, hit squads to commit  murder, etc. The amazing thing is that they got away with it despite the  fact that the maximum amount of movements for independence are raging  within India.
To start with is the grey area of Kashmir  which is legally not a part of India but is under Indian subjugation.  To fight the freedom movement, the Indians have adopted a three track  policy. First they have shored up the present Indian administration,  particularly the law enforcement agencies to maintain civil order. Since  the local police forces have been hopelessly compromised, the Indians  moved in large number of units from the Border Security Forces (BSF) and the Central Reserve Police (CRPF).  To augment their strength at key points, at least 2 more complete  mountain divisions have been moved in, one from Eastern Command and the  other from Southern Command. Both these formations were part of the  Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) in Sri Lanka. In addition, Brigade  sized independent formations as well as special commando units have been  posted to Kashmir. While the BSF and CRPF were known for their penchant  to resort to atrocities against non-combatants particularly old men,  women and children, the commando units were trained by Israelis to  combat the urban guerillas on the counter-Intifida pattern. Most  infamous among these special units are the so-called Black Cats (they  wear black uniform). The prime modus operandi is to surround a locality  and line up all the men held in that swoop. Hooded men, who are  obviously either informants or guerillas who have been tortured and thus  forced to cooperate, are then brought to identify possible dissidents.  Some of those that are held simply disappear, in most cases their  bodies turn up after a few days. There is no sanctuary, churches and/or  mosques are entered at will, in many cases there has been gun-battles on  the premises. A form of ethnic cleansing is in process in Kashmir, the  country is being rid of Muslim Kashmiris. There have been as many as  40,000 documented deaths in the last 2/3 years, over double that have  crossed over the LoC to become a fresh wave of refugees in Azad Kashmir.
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| An innocent young painter shot dead while painting a wall by BSF and SOG in HabbaKadal Srinagar | 
Almost a similar modus operandi is followed in 
Khalistan (Indian Punjab). Operation  Blue Star in 1984 aimed at getting the Sikh militants out of the Golden  Temple at Amritsar. The Sikh leader Bhindranewala was a RAW creation, a  discovery of the late Sanjay Gandhi who thought he could be built-up as  antidote to the growing Sikh freedom movement. Unfortunately for India,  while before Bhindranewala the Sikhs were for greater autonomy within  India, 
after Blue Star the great majority now want an independent Khalistan. Like  in Kashmir, the province is in a state of virtual internal siege and  the guerilla attacks are matched by the State's law enforcement agencies  in the context of terrorism. Like in Kashmir, draconian laws ensure  that fundamental rights remain suspended.
Over the broad mass of Central India, extending to the South is the shadowy 
Naxalite movement.  Originating in a village called Naxalbari in West Bengal in the late  60s, this is essentially a revolt of the downtrodden class against the  injustice of the rich and ruling, particularly the landlord class and  government functionaries. At the beginning the movement was not really  terrorist-oriented but the reaction of the civil administration forced  them to respond with vengeance, now it is all out war with the Naxalites  beheading their targeted enemies. Naturally the Indian Government's  response, both Federal and State, has been to fight fire with fire with  only lip-service given to civil liberties.
In the South is the 
land of the Tamils. In the 60s and 70s there  was a budding secessionist movement, however with Indian moves on Sri  Lanka in support of the minority Tamils against the majority Sinhalese,  this movement was stymied. During the 80s, RAW created many camps in  Tamil Nadu for the Tamil guerilla movements. Most of the supplies to  Tamil areas were ferried across the straits to Jaffna and other areas by  RAW operatives. A time came when the Sri Lankan Tamils had virtually  free run of the place. However, with the advent of the IPKF into Sri  Lanka, the major Tamil group, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam (LTTE),  led by Prabhaharan, revolted against Indian tutelage. RAW's proteges now  became India's implacable enemies, the most bloody action was Rajiv  Gandhi's assassination in typical LTTE style with the help of a girl  from the LTTE suicide squad, she blew herself up along with the former  PM of India. The Indian reaction against the Sri Lankan Tamils in India  has been predictable and has created a backlash among the South Indian  Tamil population.
Most of India's budding secessionist movements are too small to be well  documented but the Indian response has been bloody and brutal. Some of  the movements that are of significance are:-
a. GorkhalandThe areas around Darjeeling, just south of Nepal, is inhabited by a  large number of Gorkhas who are fighting for their own homeland. There  is an uneasy peace at the moment because the Indians have promised  autonomy.
b. BodolandJust west of Darjeeling lies Meghalaya where Bodo tribals are fighting  for their independence. This freedom struggle started with bows and  arrows, it is now a full fledged guerilla movement.
c. ULFAUnited Liberation Front of Assam envisages an independent Assam as the  local inhabitants feel they have been colonized by the Indians. As  usual, the Indians have met terror with terror, razing entire villages  to the ground.
d.
 NagalandThe Nagas have been fighting for their independence since almost 1947.  The British had promised them an independent homeland for their active  support against the Japanese in World War 2. After the emergence of  Bangladesh, the mainly Christian Nagas lost their main supply base for  some time and they came to terms with the Federal authorities. However  the promises made by the Indians were never fulfilled and as Bangladesh  fell out with India, the Naga logistics improved and the guerilla  movement goes on in full swing.
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MizoramLike the Nagas, the Mizos are mainly Christians and their guerilla  movement has followed the same route. Laldenga, their leader, had to  come to terms after the emergence of Bangladesh. He was brought to Delhi  for peace negotiations and then incarcerated when the talks failed in  utter violation of the immunity given to him. Today the movement for an  independent Mizoram goes on.
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ManipurisOne of the greatest shocks of 'democratic' India that awaited tea  planters of West Pakistani origin who moved into India while escaping  from East Pakistan in 1971 (and were incarcerated in Indian Jails) was  to find Manipuri children in many jails of Tripura State, particularly  Agartala Jail. Under the Maintenance of India Security Act (MISA), a  large number of Manipuri children of Manipuri influentials were kept as  hostages for their good behaviour. For a time after Bangladesh became a  separate country, there was relative peace in Manipur as the guerilla  movement lost its supply sanctuaries. It is now a war-torn country with  Indian forces being attacked by Manipur guerillas in areas stretching  from Manipur south to the Burmese border.
CONCLUSIONIn the face of overwhelming evidence of Indian sponsored State  terrorism directed against (1) its neighbours and (2) its own population  for years, the USA is not likely to discriminate against Pakistan on  the basis of the evidence at hand and the nature of the international  dispute with respect to Kashmir, though restraint may well have been  advised by the US through diplomatic channels. One may well ask, what is  any Pakistani government to do, turn the other cheek and act deaf, dumb  and blind while Kashmiris are increasingly subject to atrocities? In  Kashmir today, if death, rape and torture has become endemic, it is  mostly at the initiative of Indian forces. To be fair while one may  accept that we may have cast a stone or two, in the face of the Indian  barrage of terrorism against all its neighbours, one will expect that  justice will not be denied.  If the world community has any even-handed non-discriminatory yardstick  for labelling any nation a terrorist State, India outstrips everyone  else by a mile!Photographic evidence :
The 8 year old innocent was killed by Indians during current protests in Kashmir
| A  group of Indian women shed their clothes and protest outside the Indian  Army Assam Rifles anti-terrorism unit barracks in Imphal, Manipur. 
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| GENOCIDE AGAINST MUSLIMS: The charred bodies of Muslim after the Hindus attacked, murdered and burned them in Gujarat in 2002. The fate of Mulsims in India 
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| GENCIDE AGAINST MUSLIMS IN GUJRAT: The bodies of dozens of burned Muslims waiting for a mass burial lay in a Muslim graveyard in Ahmadabad India 
 A Hindu Fanatic group attacking Muslim citizens in India 
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