Ishrat Jahan and the ethics of India’s encounter policies

Let’s just call him J., the former United States special forces officer I met for dinner at a beach-shack somewhere many years ago.  For much of his life, J. served in black operations: tracking down people thought to be his nation’s enemies; torturing them; puting a bullet through their head, and sometimes a second one just to make sure.  It sometimes takes raw courage to kill in cold blood: if J. had been caught, he’d have ended up exactly like the people he hunted.

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