that may be true, but would you then agree with BBC's
assessment that
it
started as an essentially indigenous and popular
uprising? if so, that
is all the more reason to ask the people.
counterinsurgency warfare
might be a dirty business (and i doubt you condone
it), but it is all
the more dirty when the actions are partially aimed at
silencing the
people or denying them a voice.
--ravi
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I don't know enough about the issue to answer whether
it was popular or not. But you do not need to have a
majority of the population on your side in order to
have an indigenous uprising. The Chechen population,
for instance, voted overwhelmingly to remain part of
the Russian Federation (then, the Soviet Union) in
1991. That did not prevent extremists in the Chechen
population from doing their thing, and the moderates
were either forced out or fled. I don't know if the
Kashmiri case is parallel or not.
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