08-29-2007, 01:14 AM
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Pioneer.com
Reuters | New Delhi
A hostile neighbourhood combined with a lack of domestic political will accompanied by some sloppy policing have made India a vulnerable target for Islamist militants, experts say, after bombs killed 41 people in Hyderabad.
<b>The US Government's National Counter Terrorism Center said that India was second only to Iraq in terms of terrorist incidents and deaths between January 2004 and March 2007, with 3,674 people killed, more than hotspots like Afghanistan and Colombia.</b>
A daily diet of violence in Kashmir and attacks by small bands of Maoists in the countryside seldom make national headlines, but high-profile bomb attacks on cities blamed on Islamist militants now take place more often.
The latest attack in Hyderabad was swiftly blamed on Islamist militant groups based in Bangladesh or Pakistan, using Indian Muslims to carry out their work.
<b>It was an explanation rejected by both the neighbours, but one diplomats say has a ring of truth in the blame.</b>Â
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Police also came in for criticism this week. <b>Each time a bomb goes off, the police round up suspects and make a few arrests, but seldom seem to get to the perpetrators.</b>
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Analysts say the police are massively understaffed and under-resourced given the scale of the challenge they face, with vast swathes of the rural hinterland virtually unpoliced. The criminal justice system is overwhelmed and outdated.
<b>There is also a lack of coordination between police in States and at the Centre, no central database of militant suspects and little time for the kind of meticulous, post-attack hunt for clues undertaken elsewhere.</b>
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"We need to have a consensus approach," said security expert C Uday Bhaskar, adding that India, like many democracies, needed to balance human rights and security needs, while also making sure laws were not misused.
Politicians, experts say, do need to acknowledge that India's 140-million-strong <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Muslim population is beginning to provide recruits for militant groups. </span>
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Pioneer.com
Reuters | New Delhi
A hostile neighbourhood combined with a lack of domestic political will accompanied by some sloppy policing have made India a vulnerable target for Islamist militants, experts say, after bombs killed 41 people in Hyderabad.
<b>The US Government's National Counter Terrorism Center said that India was second only to Iraq in terms of terrorist incidents and deaths between January 2004 and March 2007, with 3,674 people killed, more than hotspots like Afghanistan and Colombia.</b>
A daily diet of violence in Kashmir and attacks by small bands of Maoists in the countryside seldom make national headlines, but high-profile bomb attacks on cities blamed on Islamist militants now take place more often.
The latest attack in Hyderabad was swiftly blamed on Islamist militant groups based in Bangladesh or Pakistan, using Indian Muslims to carry out their work.
<b>It was an explanation rejected by both the neighbours, but one diplomats say has a ring of truth in the blame.</b>Â
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Police also came in for criticism this week. <b>Each time a bomb goes off, the police round up suspects and make a few arrests, but seldom seem to get to the perpetrators.</b>
Â
Analysts say the police are massively understaffed and under-resourced given the scale of the challenge they face, with vast swathes of the rural hinterland virtually unpoliced. The criminal justice system is overwhelmed and outdated.
<b>There is also a lack of coordination between police in States and at the Centre, no central database of militant suspects and little time for the kind of meticulous, post-attack hunt for clues undertaken elsewhere.</b>
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"We need to have a consensus approach," said security expert C Uday Bhaskar, adding that India, like many democracies, needed to balance human rights and security needs, while also making sure laws were not misused.
Politicians, experts say, do need to acknowledge that India's 140-million-strong <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>Muslim population is beginning to provide recruits for militant groups. </span>
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