Chief of Defence Staff Gen Bipin Rawat on Thursday said de-radicalisation camps are operating in the country as it was necessary to isolate people who are completely radicalised.
In an address at the Raisina Dialogue, Gen Rawat, delving into the situation in Kashmir, said girls and boys as young as 10 and 12 years are being radicalised in the Valley which he described as a matter of concern.
“These people can still be isolated from radicalisation in a gradual way. But there are people who have been completely radicalised. These people need to be taken out separately, possibly taken to some de-radicalisation camps,” he said.
“We have got de-radicalisation camps going on in our country,” the Chief of Defence Staff said.
CDS Bipin Rawat’s statement horrified many on Twitter.
AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi wrote, “Who’ll deradicalise lynchers & their political masters? What about those opposing citizenship for Assam’s Bengali Muslims? Maybe deradicalise “Badla” Yogi & “Pakistan jao” Meerut SP? Maybe deradicalise those imposing hardship on us through NPR-NRC?
Who’ll deradicalise lynchers & their political masters? What about those opposing citizenship for Assam’s Bengali Muslims?
Maybe deradicalise “Badla” Yogi & “Pakistan jao” Meerut SP? Maybe deradicalise those imposing hardship on us through NPR-NRC?https://t.co/hxHmhGbAvM
— Asaduddin Owaisi (@asadowaisi) January 16, 2020
“Young Children Being Radicalised, Need to Identify&Put Them in De-radicalisation Camps, says Army Chief Bipin Rawat! How will you decide who is radical? How is being radical illegal? We are all in favour of radical reforms in our Polity, Economy, Judiciary,” wrote lawyer and activist Prashant Bhushan.
Young Children Being Radicalised, Need to Identify&Put Them in De-radicalisation Camps, says Army Chief Bipin Rawat! How will you decide who is radical? How is being radical illegal? We are all in favour of radical reforms in our Polity, Economy, Judiciary https://t.co/1HNVk4uhRP
— Prashant Bhushan (@pbhushan1) January 16, 2020
A Twitter user wrote, “This is frightening and dangerous and it comes from Gen Bipin Rawat. What is a ‘de-radicalise camp’ and how will ‘radicalised children’ be identified? By the clothes they wear and their ‘appearance’?”
“I thought I had heard everything. But this is what the chief of defence staff of a democracy is saying,” another user said.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
This is frightening and dangerous and it comes from Gen Bipin Rawat. What is a ‘de-radicalise camp’ and how will ‘radicalised children’ be identified? By the clothes they wear and their ‘appearance’?
https://t.co/tWvoHBd31G— Harinder Baweja (@shammybaweja) January 16, 2020
Cat is out of the bag? General Bipin Rawat confirms #Indian plans for eradicating Kashmiris, their identity and culture and colonisation of #Kashmir by settlers from #India in a model inspired by China in #Xinjiang against #Uyghurs. #FreeKashmir https://t.co/VcmnQQVRrI
— ☭ A little bit rad Komrad (@DerArschloch) January 16, 2020
This is alarming: Chief of Defence Staff Bipin Rawat is calling for #Kashmir’s children to be put in “de-radicalization camps,” a code for internment camps. #India is planning even more nefarious things in #Kashmir and the world needs to act NOW. https://t.co/NGO6dmJCBT
— StandWithKashmir (@standwkashmir) January 16, 2020
I thought I had heard everything. But this is what the chief of defence staff of a democracy is saying: https://t.co/BWWfT9TnZe
— Salil Tripathi سلیل تریپاٹھی સલિલ ત્રિપાઠી (@saliltripathi) January 16, 2020
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Young Children Being Radicalised, Need to Identify & Put Them in De-radicalisation Camps: Bipin Rawat#BipinRawat
— Dr Jwala Gurunath (@DrJwalaG) January 17, 2020
