Blood on My Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters

By Kishalay Bhattacharjee

Book Overview

'You are here to catch militants, so you have to catch militants. This is your business. You can't say, I have a budget of only 30,000, so I can't catch them.'

This anonymous confession by an army officer splits wide open the anatomy of staged encounters in India's northeast, and explains how awards and citations are linked to a body count. Speaking to investigative journalist and conflict specialist Kishalay Bhattacharjee, the confessor tells of the toll this brutality has taken on him.An essay by Bhattacharjee and a postscript that analyses the hidden policy of extra-judicial killings and how it threatens India's democracy contextualize this searing confession. An explosive document on institutionalized human rights abuse.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9351772586
• ISBN13: 9789351772583
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.1" x 7.8"