I am writing a small content taken out from the book that gonna be published by my friend,
[This is not to hurt any bodies sentiment but rather portray what happened]
Courtesy :Shanvi
True Story of My best friend's Brother
It was 30 km away from Kargil during March 1999.
It was gloomy and Dark late in the evening , there was a slow march towards our camp, we did identify its terrorists as we read from their code language. We immediately got split and start hiding to find the trace of the enemies.
Two soldiers who were hiding behind the 13th rock [we have the count of the rocks near by our tent, so as identify easily] found the blood shed near by them. The situation got eased as they were no more sound for almost 4 hrs.
1st Soldier of us mission Bravo was sent out to identify whether there is any tension still resting near our camp, Oops we thought he was lucky as we found out it was a barrage of Army behind the 26 the rock.
Before the brave bravo came back our commander ordered us to leave the camp as the tension was rising. First scream of horror was heared as Bravo was arrested and tortured.
10 live blood sucking worms on his face, both hands slaughtered with bullet shots. Every body's blood were boiling as we know bravo is sacrificing his life for us. Commander ordered us not to leave the place till he comes back informing our Army & Border security force about the entry of Army [I don’t wanna name the country].
Even though it was our commander order not to leave the place and not to take any action till he comes back, it was WALKIE [Bravo's Closet friend] showed first signs of humanity, unable to see his friend suffer the pain shot him in the head & Killed Bravo. Since it was shot with a silencer the enemy army were unable to find us, but they started panicking and approach towards the direction of bullet, hence we had to disperse before our commander Magnam could come.
The opposite troop divided themselves into various groups for the search operation, to counter it we decided to split ourselves into various sub groups, Commander Magnam finally found us, but we were already seperated into 4 groups.With Me Chivro, Walkie & Triden formed a separate group.
Our Commander decided to do the counter attack since he has already informed about the enemy movement to the Security force. It was freezing cold that day the temp should be around -10 to -12 degree centigrade.
We successfully battled 60 opponent soldiers but unable to fight the odds as we were surronded by the numbers.
We were arrested and taken to the enemy camp, the first signs of torture started for us as we were left in a room of ants with sugar sprayed all around our naked body. We were given a deadline of 8 hrs to say the information about the country troop arrangement and give out the detail of various hidden territories.
None of our brave soldiers opened the mouth even-though blood were pouring Drop by Drop by various ant bites. We were devoid of even screaming as our mouth were tied.
Thy know very well what our intention was as they read our every moment and neither they had time in their hand to wait for our answer, there was one very brutal ------- who wanted to show his aggression on us chopped 2 finger out of hands and sprayed salt and sugar over it.
A full day passed still no body opened their mouth as we felt our country's security at stake to our life.
Finally their commander arrived before us ordered his troops to move us to a different camp and clean the mess as he feared of disease striking. We were taken into the enemy border for the first time.
It was our 3rd day in their camp, early in the morning when we woke up they decided to shave all our hairs and let us take bath one by one, we finally had a sight of food before us.
No body was ready to have it, but our commander grabbed the food and had it to his full stomach, we followed him as we know there is meaning behind even the smallest of the movements.
Later he did explain either to survive or die but not to struggle, he said if there is poison in it lets die quickly if not have food to fight against them.
Still no body came up with the answer what the opponent camp wanted hence they adopted a new strategy of chopping one by one every alternate hour part by part. This time it was my closest friend Targa 19 was horrible killed to death, his hands torn legs seperated and chopped at the middle of the heart.
Our will power dropped heavily and fear struck in our heart for the 1st time. Still the incident provokes my fear in the night.
Just 2 hours passed by we hardly could recover from Targa's loss Malta 23 was execute in the same fashion.
The execution continued till late in the night with 7 soldiers slaughtered. I know it was my turn next, but we thought they stopped the slaughter for the day.
But then came 3 enemy soldiers with long swords took me to a dark room, I was ready for the execution as I suffered more pain already for them to inflict any further.
It turned out to be opposite what I thought, he swatted the two guys with him & set me free,
he was our own spy in the enemy camp, he then said we got few minutes time to release as many persons as we can. I along with Nav [The spy] set my commander and 10 other men free, unfortunately I could release eight other guys since they were kept in a different place and the news got leaked out quickly.
My commander has to stay there since he his main duty was to protect the other soldiers and we nine guys were asked to report about the enemy base camp near by Jeh. We left off the place only to be surronded by few enemy soldiers on the way. 4 of my precious friends lost life in the battle and rest we escaped to the safety Indian border.
3 other person who came with me also died in hospital after suffering sever injuries as a result of torture, me & my friend alone escaped the death. We might be handicapped physically but mentally we are still the same old soldiers for the country, even though I don’t hold the position in the defence any more due to injuries I suffered I am still happy to share my experience with other young soldiers.
The bad news came to my ears when I was in hospital my commander and the rest of the team were tortured further 13 days before everyone being killed one by one.
I would love to see a world without any War, without any torture. Let it be my enemy or my friend let everybody who lost life atlas rest in peace now.