Tuesday, June 23, 2015

Over Publicity Negates A Brave Mission

Days after June 4th killing of about 20 jawans of Indian Army by NSCN militants, a robust response has come from the Indian forces, by striking at the militant camps across the border and inside Myanmar territory. It shows that Modi is willing to bite the bullet. Confirmation of this strike has been made by the Minister of State for IB Mr Rajavardhan Singh Rathode. But the fact of the matter is, the killing of insurgents inside the Myanmar border may not be a big deal for an army of India's size. Indeed the operation is ridiculously small when compared to the liberation of Bangladesh by Mrs Indira Gandhi. After this incident we saw everyday the electronic media to continuously engage Pakistan in war of words over this operation. Is it really necessary? I feel the Indian media never seems to learn lessons. You all know it was Indian media's over drive in Nepal, following the quake that soured our relations with Kathmadu. Now can we afford to face the similar situation in Myanmar? 
When we are talking about regional peace, the sovereignty of neighbouring countries should be respected? We already have disturbed relations with Pakisthan and China. We cannot antagonise Myanmar, one may remember that India had carried out similar strikes starting with : Operation golden bird in 1995. The Indian army has smoked out militants in Myanmar and Bhutan with the consent and active participation of those Govts. Ofcorse it was all under wraps. But now what is our stand when Myanmar appears to be contradicting the Indian story? 

Infact people are of the opinion that rather than warn Pakisthan why can't India conduct a similar surprise raids on POK which has many terrorist camps? And for this we can justify saying self defence. This should be the available solution for against Pakisthan's acts of terrorism.
Right from the beginning of the present episode, India should have played out this cross border raid with more tact. Both the Indian army and the media should have avoided talking too much about the incident.

However with regards to this incident there are two schools of thought, one is that India will no longer tolerate when faced with terrorist attacks, while the other school of thought is, that the Myanmar is contradicting Indian side of story, it is a slap on us.Amidst this one has to evaluate the ground realities. While such operations can be conducted with ease on Nepal, Myanmar or Bhutan, the countries with which our relations are on different plane, but would this type move be so easy in the case of Pakistan or China? In case India wants such operations in due course why so much unnecessary publicity, which may result in many more problems.