Chitvan Gill

[Dark Pill @darkandcrude]

Men like Gill don’t care how people remember them.

They are no nonsense men, who come when times are toughest, deliver results & go back

If they cared about being “liked”, they would have sold ice creams

Ks hate him & killings fell down post his rule is all that matters

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

In the same article, Khalra claimed “more than 50,000 freedom fighters” had died for Khalistan. He began his rights work from this perspective, with a number in mind. Moreover, his khalisatni views were long-held, not a one-off:
https://t.co/MOYjrduzIW

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

.@HoneyTrehan “forgets” what even rights organisations acknowledge: Khalra’s “freedom fighters” were responsible for mass killings of Hindu and Sikh civilians, bombings, abductions, rape, and forced marriages.

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

i'm receiving so much love from a few minority 'liberals' who believe majoritarian communal violence should be combated only when it is directed at them

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

See Satluj, but know what @HoneyTrehan deliberately omits: in Liberation Khalistan in 1992, Khalra wrote, “Bhai Satwant Singh & Bhai Kehar Singh (Indira’s killers) have surpassed even Sarabha & Bhagat Singh.” Khalra actively endorsed Khalistani violence...

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

@HoneyTrehan The actual total of about 7,000 unidentified cremations/disappearances/state-handled deaths, over 11 years, is grave enough. But the link to custodial or encounter killings is not straightforward. It requires inquiry, not Khalistani myth-making...

[Keshav Bedi @keshavbedi]

Why KPS Gill shouldn’t be unduly villainised

[Keshav Bedi @keshavbedi]

Terrorism in Punjab didn’t end with political “solutions” or concessions. It didn’t end with appeasement of terrorists.

It ended due to KPS Gill. That remains an empirical fact. No amount of mumbo-jumbo can obfuscate that.

His name is registered in history as the person who “led one of the most successful counter-terrorist operations in the history of world terrorism, bringing Punjab from the verge of disintegration to complete normalcy.”

[Revolutionary Monk @RevolutionMonk]

The younger generation may not know their real history, heroes, and actual enemies.

At such times, these desperate attempts by the enemies serve one purpose — to remind our kids of the truth: Who truly stood for us? Who were the snakes in our midst? And how our heroes crushed them.

KPS Gill was, and will always remain, a hero.

It’s time to celebrate him and ensure the younger generation knows his story.

#KPSGill #Sutluj

[Anuradha🇮🇳 @ako660]

I have lived those times in Amritsar and lived in terror. Do not know who Khalra was but every home in Punjab lived in dread whether the headcount of the family at night would be the same. There are two sides to the story. Yes. Maybe. Could be. I wish there was a film ever made on those caught in the cross fire. I belong to a mixed family of both Hindus and Sikhs. All the elders would cry that they did not want to cross the rivers of death and blood again after 1947. The peasants tilling our land lived in perpetual fear because of the reign of terror the Khalistanis had unleashed. No woman was safe.

Once, a man came home in the middle of the day in winters wearing a huge shawl saying that he had come from our lands. Daddy could not place him . There were many employed to till our lands so he was offered food and was happily lounging at home till the police arrived after a couple of hours to arrest him. They showed us the AK47 he carried under his shawl. He had obviously been on the run and scaled the walls to get into our bungalow. He was a dreaded terrorist on the run. We all know where the indoctrination came from.

I still remember him asking when my parents were getting the bibi(me) married. Mamma said she is too young for it.
Had it not been for the KPS Gill’s police, we would have been butchered by the evening.

We have lived many such stories. Like they say fighting a war and writing a book about it
are two different ball games altogether.

I am in no position to review this objectively as I have lived those nights awake scared to the bone.

Our mujaras tilling the land could only heave a sigh of relief, all those guarding the villages at night with guns to prevent the Hindus getting butchered were actually spared agonising nights only after KPS Gill assumed charge. Our peasants would come home and relate how huge cache from arms were dug out by the Punjab police from innocent looking fields flush with crops fields after KPS took charge. Rabb mil gaya sahnun.
Pakistani hathiar nappe gaye ne.
God bless this man. He was the saviour of Punjab.
Shall read his book. Thanks.
Peace. 🙂

[Crystal Clear @Crystal_x_Clear]

Hartosh Singh Bal of Caravan Magazine, a hard-core leftist but maternal nephew of KPS Gill, writes in his piece that the tag of brutality attached to Gill is fabricated, and people do not see his tactical & strategic side. He gives an example, a story……

He writes that when KPS Gill joined as DGP Punjab, Tarn Taran was highly infested by terrorists. He issued an office order for all the senior police officers for a meeting at 2 am in Tarn Taran. No one had the guts to ask him whether Gill had, by mistake, called a meeting in the night (2 am) rather than in the afternoon.

Finally, not getting any confirmation, all the police officers, with their huge entourage of jeeps & gypsies, came to Tarn Taran in the night for the meeting.

The moment everyone assembled, KPS Gill called off the meeting.

All the officers, initially confused, got the message and understood the strategic brilliance of Gill. The meeting in the dark hours of Tarn Taran was a signal to the terrorists that the police would reclaim even the nights from them.

The Operation Night Dominance began, and by 1989 only 4 out of 13 police districts remained affected by terrorists.

The strategic brilliance of a supercop should not be overshadowed or tarnished by the tag of brutality.

[कुशल मेहरा @kushal_mehra]

I 100% endorse this statement. For fucks sake no one knows more than @ShekharGupta on this one. Kya chutiye log bhare hai hamare desh mein. Sorry Shekhar gaali waale tweet mein aapko tag kiya hai.

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

7. Lastly, let's drop the bhai, I do not share your politics or the politics of any 'we progressives' who make their money from Modi-endorsing Karan Johars. There is no integrity of views without an integrity of livelihood.

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

6. Honey Trehan says he showed it to SGPC & Akal Takht: “They loved it.” Akal Takht declared Bhindranwale a martyr. A film so blessed was never going to tell the truth about terror’s misuse of Sikhism, its murders, rapes, its communal thrust. Half-truth. A Dhurandhar mirrored...

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

5. My article came years before the film; you have conceded its central factual point over the disappearances. Yet the film went with it. Why? The narrative bargain required the family to praise its “truth” of “more than 25,000 unclaimed bodies.”
https://t.co/c3pUiTfvtd

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

4. As for Gujarat, far from doing Modi’s work, Gill arrived in May 2002, 3 months after riots, met officers on 4 May; transfers of inactive/collaborative officers followed. Policing resumed. Sreekumar, a rare stellar officer, recorded violence falling...
https://t.co/3KWw9VWZAL

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

3. 1. The claimed counter: I used SATP figures, founded by KPS Gill. But SATP is standard. HRW’s 2006 Kashmir repeatedly cites SATP, including fatality/incident data, without “Gill-founded.” Good enough for HRW, not me?...
https://t.co/7hggKACYxP

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

2 The point of my article, written yrs before the movie (which I’ll return to): why does Punjab’s indictment have only one proper noun, KPS Gill? Why do Ribeiro, Mangat, CMs, PMs vanish? And you do the same. This polemic isn't about justice. It's vendetta against his success...

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

1. Only a Bollywood scriptwriter (not my side) can concede my central claim as vindication: ‘You call the figure of 25,000 disappearances a fabrication, & on the data you may even be right.’ So let me stay with what I argued, and such attempts to escape the facts with rhetoric...

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

satluj needs to be seen for khalra's story, but also for how shoddily
a) it concocts 25,000 dead, no 'liberal' qualms at 15,000 imaginary deaths (8,000 is too little?) for effect?
a) it effaces (jathedar-approved) sikhism's grizzly misuse for terror (a flip kashmir files).