ABSTRACT
Shuddering at the prospect that violence would grow worse, many officials felt unfit to restrain the menace and welcomed the initially small contingent of the National Security Guard (NSG) commandos, stationed in Sri nagar, to train J&K police officers in anti-terrorist tactics. This measure falling far short of meeting the growing peril, General K. V. Krishna Rao, the former Chief of the Army Staff and the Governor of Manipur and Nagaland, was appointed to replace Jagmohan as the new governor. Subsequent events amply revealed that what was needed to confront terrorism competently went beyond a change of governors. Such appointees, who exhibited little realistic vision to balance conflicting demands, were publicly criticized by high-ranking federal officials and quickly replaced by others.
