*SRINAGAR: **Depression and frustration running high in Indian Militarytroops deployed in Occupied Kashmir which is resorting to more suicides andfratricides.*
*Another day, another suicide in the Indian Armed Forces, law enforcerstationed in the land-locked illegally occupied land of Kashmir, a CRFPcommandant decided to end his own life, giving in to the perils of war, ARYNews reported on Saturday.*
Indian occupied Kashmir which has entered 20th day of a strict and heinouscurfew with a severe shortage of food, water, and medicines along withcomplete communications blackout has been home to an impending genocide ofKashmiri Muslims, something surely not for the faint of heart.
Indian Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) commandant Anant Nag used hislicensed, state authorized weapon to commit suicide.
In a prior report, India’s defence ministry had indicated that despitepsychological counseling and compulsory yoga exercises, suicides andfragging (fratricidal killing) among forces remained unabated.
Even 40 percent of women, rarely deputed for combat duty, in paramilitaryforces committed suicides. More servicemen are killed in suicides than inaction.
One jawan committed suicide every three days. During the last six years,approximately 700 personnel of the Central Armed Police Forces havecommitted suicide and the rate of voluntary retirement is approximately9,000 personnel per year.