Troops and officers of 3 Kumaon (Rifles) and 70 Brigade Commander, RK Shivrain with war-like stores of killers of Wandhama Pandits. Pic: HQs, 70 Infantry Brigade
CHANDIGARH: As you read the newspaper this morning, 23 years back to the time a bloody battle was on in the high snows of the Kashmir valley. The blood of seven terrorists, including a Pakistan Army regular, was seeping into the ivory snows of Safapora, outside their cave hideouts blasted by infantry’s 84-millimetre Carl Gustav rocket launchers. The crack team of 3 Kumaon and 9 Dogra had released Russian-made special incendiary munitions deep into the recesses of snow and rock, and any terrorist who fled the ‘crematory fire’ was nailed by the troops who slithered and slid down the slopes in hot pursuit. The souls of 23 Kashmiri Pandits slaughtered by this Harkat-ul-Ansar gang 19 days ago on January 25, 1998, had found partial peace.