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Blood on My Hands
Blood on My Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters | Kishalay Bhattacharjee
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'You are here to catch militants, so you have to catch militants. This is your business. You can't say, I have a budget of only 30,000, so I can't catch them.' This anonymous confession by an army officer splits wide open the anatomy of staged encounters in India's northeast, and explains how awards and citations are linked to a body count. Speaking to investigative journalist and conflict specialist Kishalay Bhattacharjee, the confessor tells of the toll this brutality has taken on him.An essay by Bhattacharjee and a postscript that analyses the hidden policy of extra-judicial killings and how it threatens India's democracy contextualize this searing confession. An explosive document on institutionalized human rights abuse.
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The book elaborates the pathology of fake and staged encounters ,the circumstances under which these killings take place and the complicity of the state machinery. It narrates the reality of an Indian democratic state whose agents arbitrarily kidnap ,torture, rape and kill for personal benefit or gratification and are given immunity for doing so under laws like AFSPA.
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