andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> >How do you organise the police work, when Taliban are in power?
>
> Sort like chasing the Mafia in an Italian neighborhood.
The mafia was never broken until until civil liberties were jimmied beyond recognition by RICO, the witness protection program, material witness jailing, etc. And in Italy itself, where is much more comparable to the Kashmir case, and where the mafia (and camorra, and ndranghetta) really could be conceived as a paramilitary force over 10,000 strong, the mafia was never broken until those laws were bent to the point that they very much resembled the main desidirata of martial law, e.g., administrative detention, the suspension of habeas corpus, the weakening of rules of evidence, in camera trials, etc.
So the mafia example seems to prove the opposite case -- that in fact normal civil law is insufficient even to stop the mafia, never mind an insurgency.
Michael