Rawat was a monster whose death is less unfortunate than his life.

 ****  Rawat was a monster whose death is less unfortunate than his life. *****

India's Chief of Defense General Bipin Rawat died today in a helicopter crash in southern India. His wife & eleven other Indian military personnel were also killed. Condolences for Rawat are pouring in from governments around the world, including the US, Russia, Pakistan. They can stuff all those condolences where the sun don't shine. Rawat was a monster whose death is less unfortunate than his life. The only truly unfortunate thing is that he died before facing an international tribunal for the unspeakable crimes he committed against the people of Kashmir & insurgent peoples in India. We would no more offer condolences for him than we would for Hitler, Stalin, or when Kissinger croaks.

He was the chief architect of the daily military operations (Cordon & Search Operations) with bazookas & high-power rifles in residential neighborhoods in Kashmir where homes are vandalized & razed, residents made homeless, livestock killed, unarmed protesters injured by pellet munitions, & young men executed & framed as terrorists. What's to commiserate about his death when Kashmiris have suffered so much without mercy at his hands? He lived by the bazooka, he got 'hoisted by his own petard'. That's justice short of an international tribunal for war crimes.

In its statement of condolences, the US Embassy in India gave away some revealing information about the US relationship & endorsement of Indian military brutalities. They said Rawat spearheaded a historic period of transformation in the Indian military & was a strong friend & partner of the US, overseeing a major expansion of India's military cooperation with the US. They report that in September he spent five days touring military facilities in the US to 'enhance' that cooperation. Now we know for sure that the US has collusion & some serious culpability for the colonial occupation of Kashmir.

May Bipin Rawat rot in the lowest bowels of hell.

- Mary Scully(US based human rights lawyer)