K. P. S. Gill Quotes
If we seek a true victory, we must defeat the fundamentalist ideologies that threaten to plunge the entire region into a conflagration that may well destroy us all. The greater war that we must now engage in is the war for the minds of men.
The conflict to which he was referring was the terrorism practiced by the Pakistan-supported Muslim fundamentalists in Kargil, India in 1999.
K. P. S. Gill, Director General of the Punjab, India Police, Member of the Indian National Security Advisory Board, Founding President of the Institute for Conflict Management, Leader of the successful anti-terrorism forces in the Punjab, “Battle for the Mind: Nobody can be a Winner in Kargil,” Times of India, July 9, 1999
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Most Americans and Europeans and their governments feel that Muslim leaders and organizations have not done very much in terms of “drawing the line” and publicly condemning terrorism. However many of the critics did not understand the intimidation that exists in most Islamic communities where the fascist fundamentalists target any Muslim public critics as heretics and apostates themselves. Many have been killed or injured in assassination attempts.
Kanwar Pal Singh Gill was an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer. He served twice as Director General of Police (DGP) for the state of Punjab, India, where he is credited with having brought the Punjab insurgency under control. While many see him as a hero, there are accusations that he and the forces under his command were responsible for human rights violations "in the name of stamping out terrorism." Gill retired from the IPS in 1995.