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'You are here to catch militants, so you have to catch militants. This is your business. You can't say, I have a budget of only 30,000, so I can't catch them.' This anonymous confession by an army officer splits wide open the anatomy of staged encounters in India's northeast, and explains how awards and citations are linked to a body count. Speaking to investigative journalist and conflict specialist Kishalay Bhattacharjee, the confessor tells of the toll this brutality has taken on him.An essay by Bhattacharjee and a postscript that analyses the hidden policy of extra-judicial killings and how it threatens India's democracy contextualize this searing confession. An explosive document on institutionalized human rights abuse.

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Author

Kishalay Bhattacharjee

Publisher

HarperCollins Publishers India

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9789351772590

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, History, Social_sciences

Rating

4.16 / 5 (61 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14