J&K cops to sue YouTube, Facebook for clip
The Jammu and Kashmir police on Thursday signalled its intention to move against YouTube and Facebook for entertaining a three-minute video clip showing a group of three Kashmiri youth being paraded naked by the security forces somewhere near the north-western town of Sopore.
The police is also trying to identify the Netizens who uploaded the video clip onto social networking sites.
A police statement here claimed that “it has been found that these reports have not been verified as yet and, therefore, to attribute it to the (security) forces with the intention of maligning their image and spreading disaffection amongst the people is highly regrettable.”
The police said a formal case was being registered against the social networking sites and efforts were underway to locate the persons responsible for uploading this “baseless and malicious clip”. The police added, “Action shall also be taken against other organisations who tried to propagate it.”
Kashmiris have been using social networking sites to circulate video clippings and photographs reflecting “atrocities” allegedly being perpetuated by the security forces. The campaign intensified during the weeks of unrest triggered by the killing of a 17-year-old in Srinagar on June 11.
However, the video clipping showing the three youth being paraded naked, allegedly by troops, near Sopore, has evoked widespread condemnation within India and abroad. The video, which apparently seems to be shot in autumn, and not during the recent civil unrest, has been compared by some to images of US Marines torturing and humiliating nude detainees in the Iraqi jail of Abu Ghraib. The clip is titled “Kashmir’s Abu Ghraib”.
Union home minister P. Chidambaram on Thursday said he had asked the security agencies to find out whether anybody featuring in the video clip had spoken out.
“Until it is authenticated and the persons identified, I think it would be unsafe to rely on such a video,” he said.
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