Any local youth who picks up the gun is no longer innocent, says Indian Army Chief

Indian Army Chief Bipin Rawat on Friday said that local youth who pick up the gun are no longer innocent. However he appealed to Kashmiri youth to shun guns and look after their families for a better and peaceful future.

“Any local youth who picks up the gun is no longer innocent,” Rawat said after laying the wreath at Kargil War Memorial as part of celebration of 20 years of ‘Operation Vijay.’

He said that army is trying hard to motivate families of these “misguided” youth to compel them to shun guns and come back to the mainstream. “We are trying to approach civil society, preachers, parents, and siblings of militants to make them understand,” the army chief said.

He said that no parent wants his children to do PhD only to become a militant.