Blood on my hands confessions of staged encounters

An anonymous army officers confession has been recorded in the recently released book blood on my hands by. Blood on my hands, is a book by kishalay bhattacharjee, in which an indian journalist details confessions by an army officer that in turn provide context for the criminal enterprise of the indian security establishment. On 26 september 2015, the caravan and harper collins, hosted the launch of kishalay bhattacharjees blood on my hands. I put it in my mouth and bit in in half and then i started coughing. Indian rights activists demand probe into killings of. Blood on my hands, kishalay bhattacharjee, megha k, september 2018. Rajnish rais allegations of a fake encounter in assam will not impact the. Speaking to investigative journalist and conflict specialist kishalay bhattacharjee, the confessor tells of the toll this brutality has taken on him. Confessions of staged encounters raises uncomfortable questions about the very basic structure of the indian state machinery and its operating procedures. Che in paona bazaar, blood on my hands and an unfinished revolution. Hes now put them all in a book called blood on my hands. Confessions of staged encounters harper collins, india where perhaps for the first time, some of the perpetrators of this form of violence have narrated accounts of how they hunted down their prey.

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