Announcement comes after recent spate of deadly Islamic terror attacks on Hindus.
After a spate of deadly Islamic terror attacks on Hindus in India’s northern Kashmir region, the Indian security forces have decided to arm and train village defense teams.
The government move to issue weapons and training to local villagers came after renewed attacks on Kashmir’s beleaguered Hindu minority, which has faced decades of massacres and ethnic cleansing at the hands of jihad terrorists.
Earlier this month, six Kashmiri Hindus were murdered in two separate attacks when jihadis barged into their homes and gunned them down, Indian media reports confirm. In one instance, “two militants made their way through the forests and barged into three houses of the Hindu community” and “first confirmed the identity of the victims,” India Today weekly reported January 2.
The armed training will be conducted mainly by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), an Indian paramilitary force which has borne the brunt of jihad warfare for decades.
The New Delhi-based Economic Times reported Tuesday:
Following the recent spurt of targeted attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, CRPF along with the local police will provide weapons training to village defence committee guards or VDCs in the Union Territory so that they can counter terrorist attacks.
The final contours of the training schedule, variety of arms to be included and the number of participants will be decided in due course of time, officials said.
The [Jammu and Kashmir state] administration has recently started reissuing weapons to village defence guards, earlier known as village defence committees, following the Dhangri incident in Rajouri district in which seven people were killed. The VDGs comprise local village volunteers.
“CRPF will provide weapons training to the village defence guards so that they can act as a line of defence in case of a terrorist attack. The modalities of this new proposal are still being planned,” said a senior official.
The volunteers will also be trained in basic physical combat exercise, if required, he said.
The jihadi campaign to drive out non-Muslims from Kashmir reached its height in the early 1990s. Large-scale coordinated massacres of Hindus and Sikhs caused their mass exodus. An estimated half a million Hindus and Sikhs were forced to leave their homes, making Kashmir region over 90 percent Muslim.
“We order you to leave Kashmir immediately, otherwise your children will be harmed — we are not scaring you, but this land is only for Muslims, and is the land of Allah. Sikhs and Hindus cannot stay here,” one of the jihadi “eviction” notices at the time said.
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Nationalist party come to office in 2014, New Delhi has increased the number of troops in Kashmir and stepped up security measures to protect the local non-Muslim population.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Essentially, these ‘village defences’ are what our Second Amendment calls a ‘militia’. India should expand this concept beyond Jammu to all over the country, and introduce a version of the Second Amendment. Hindus all over the country could use it defending against muslims
Deodata says
Maybe it’s a lesson which the rest of us should learn.
Aum says
About Time.