Locals demolish SOG camp in Islamabad

Islamabad: Residents of this south Kashmir town demolished the camp of Special Operation Group (SOG) of police on late Thursday night.
They said that nearly 40-SOG men stationed in the Janglatmandi camp had left the place this afternoon fearing that protesters may attack them.

As the word about SOG men abandoning the camp spread in the area hundreds of people raising pro-freedom slogans assembled there and first raised the bunker and then demolished the house where SOG men used to put up.

Pertinently, the camp housed in one of the migrant Pandits residential house, was occupied by the government gunmen in the town in mid nineties along with the other major camp located at Kadipora.

In 2002 when the Ikhwanis were adjusted in the counterinsurgent group of police—SOG--they continued to function from
these two major camps in the town.

Locals have been demanding the shifting of these camps from the residential areas for many years.