Kashmir: The present crisis too can be overcome

Kashmir: The present crisis too can be overcome

Arguments over the best way to forge ahead then begin among the movement's leaders and become increasingly acrimonious. Personal rivalries come to the fore and lead first to factional tension and then to strife. Supporters become demoralised and, slowly, the movement loses steam and peters out. In the past, many Governments have used growing contradictions within a movement to hasten its end.It is best to squelch secessionist movements in the gestation stage by combining firmness with redressal of genuine grievances. This was not done in Jammu & Kashmir when the present stage of the secessionist movement was getting under way with terrorists setting up their infrastructure for violence the 1980s following Sheikh Abdullah's death.

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