I had met a lot of young men like him in Kashmir. Men who got off on their power trip by killing helpless civilians or abducting and raping local women. Perhaps some liberal journalist sitting in an air-conditioned studio might talk about how the violence they had witnessed as children in Kashmir made them who they were, and how they needed understanding and rehabilitation. I didn’t care what made them who they were – I wasn’t a shrink and I didn’t care about their trauma. I was only interested in stopping the cycle of violence they were perpetrating today. And, I was well trained on how to
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