Edited sentence: During the counter-insurgency campaign the Indian central government gave its security forces wide leeway in their attempt to quell the insurgency, and refused to exert the control necessary to stop widespread abuse of human rights.The Asia Division of Human Rights Watch (formerly Asia Watch) sent a delegation to Punjab for two months in 1990, and during that limited time “documented 29 extrajudicial executions in which the security forces falsely claimed that the victims were killed in ‘encounters’”, along with 12 disappearances and 32 cases of torture by security forces