It is very easy indeed it has become fashionable to denounce security forces for the unending violence in Kashmir Valley. Sadly, it is not the full story.
Take Eid day, for example. That was one day when there was no provocation by the security forces; yet unprecedented violence took place.
Despite all the arson that day, security forces fired mainly in the air. But the "peaceful protestors" attacked police and paramilitary camps.
Police stations, paramilitary camps, public property and homes of mainstream political activists have been torched.
The valley is passing through anarchy where young boys aged hardly more than 12 years stop vehicles and check the identity cards of the occupants and to spot out policemen. A head constable was recently dragged out of his vehicle in the Ompora area of Srinagar and beaten mercilessly.
The peace they ask for is a peace that will be blessed by Pakistan. As a government officer here said: "Give them your hand, and they will demand your head."
