The Indian Army, where fighting soldiers, who are extremely fit, well trained, highly motivated and thoroughly fair, is only to be found in its Elite Combat Outfits, these are the soldiers, always posted in difficult terrain, jungles, mountains and at places where there is constant and regular conflict. These are the soldiers, who have hardly any Bank Balance, the Luxury of Affluence and therefore their families are always denied the privileges, perks and good time, which their counterparts in Non Combat Outfit are always enjoying. Now, if the same is compared with their civilian counterparts, these Combat Outfit Soldiers and their families are an article of pity and often ridicule.
The Allegation of Machil Fake Encounter, Life Punishment and Loss of all Benefits; to a Combat Outfit Colonel, a Major and 5 Combat Soldiers, goes viral in Media, every one claim and acknowledge, what a fair play by the Generals, Lt Gen Hooda and Lt Gen Subhroto Shah; who have scored brownie points, and assured next promotion. They have another feather in their cap, when they implicate, AGAIN under Media and the Terrorist Inclined Public of J&K Pressure, the Innocent Combat Soldiers, in Badhgam Check Post Killing in J&K. These are the Generals, who without any detail Inquiry accepted Publicly in front of the Media, that Army is Guilty and take Total Responsibility for the Killing.
My Friends, who are reading this post, should let the world know, that the Machil Encounter, can never ever be branded as Fake, I myself a Die Hard Combat Soldier, has seen and encountered innocent looking civilians, call them porters; carrying and ferrying, heavy Arms, ammunition, and Dangerous items of Sabotage, for the Terrorist, these are the so called innocent civilian who belong and reside in the nearest town/ village, and are seen every day as harmless people. What should the Combat Soldiers of the Indian Army do? Let them go? Because when shouted to stop, they attempt to scoot with the load, at times they have been found to jump from a Steep Cliffs, leaving the Combat soldiers blame worthy, if the load is delivered to the terrorist, who then trigger killing and blast in civilian areas. These Combat soldiers have no access to Visual/ other Media to give their view point. The Generals, unfortunately, who have never fired, seen and taken part in any Combat Operations, are clueless, and therefore, they protect and save only one thing, their Skin, as they have no Balls/ Soul.
Same goes, for Badhgam Check Post, shooting. The drill of Check Post, Slow Approach, Stop and Check is nothing new for the Public and People of J&K. If anyone tries to speed through this check post, point, for whatever reasons, should be ready to bear the consequences. A Combat Soldier, functions under crystal clear instructions, and therefore, very rarely commits grave mistake. Remember he is meant for Combat Role, not for Police Duties. GENERAL, IF YOU LACK THE BALLS TO CLARIFY THINGS FROM THE GOVERNMENT, THAN YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO TARNISH THE IMAGE, OF THE ONLY GOOD IN THE INDIAN ARMY, THE DIE HARD COMBAT SOLDIER, THE ENDANGERED SPECIES.