Srinagar: Six years passed to the fake encounter of Amshipora, Shopian in Occupied Kashmir. The Indian occupational forces while martyring the three unarmed Kashmiris had claimed killing of Pakistani militants but it was proved in the investigations that all three youths were labourers.According to the Kashmir Centre, on 18th July 2020, fake encounter was carried out in Amshipora, Shopian. Imtiyaz Ahmed, Abrar Ahmed and Mohammed Ibrar travelled to Shopian looking for paid work. Ibrar was a minor, branded a terrorist. A fake encounter set up for financial compensation, an admission on record by the occupying forces themselves.On 18 July 2020, Indian Army personnel of the Rashtriya Rifles killed all three, dressed their bodies with weapons and told the world they had "neutralised Pakistani militants in a successful encounter".An investigation revealed Captain Bhoopendra Singh had premeditated the murder to claim a financial reward of $30,000 from the Indian Army, who maintain a financial incentive scheme for confirmed militant kills.3 young labourers from Rajouri were selected, lured and murdered so that their killers could collect a bonus.The Army's initial statement described a successful anti-infiltration operation near the Line of Control. Three armed militants, the statement said, had been killed. Senior officers offered congratulations to the unit. The story was fed to the press. It was the standard formula, applied with the confidence of an institution that expected no challenge.The families of the three men were from Rajouri. They knew their sons had not been near the Line of Control (LoC). They knew their sons were not militants. They said so. They kept saying so.The families identified inconsistencies in the Army's account from the outset: three men from Rajouri appearing as militants in Shopian, near the Line of Control, made no sense. They filed complaints. A DNA test was ordered. The results confirmed what the families already knew. The dead were their sons. They were not militants. They had never been militants.In September 2020, the Indian Army acknowledged an investigation was underway. The truth had been forced out not by the occupation's own accountability mechanisms, but by families who refused to let it be buried.What made Amshipora different was that the motive could be established and proven in court. The Indian Army operated a financial incentive scheme for confirmed militant kills. The reward on offer was approximately $30,000 per encounter. Captain Bhoopendra Singh and two other Rashtriya personnel selected three labourers with no local connections, lured them, killed them, staged the scene and submitted the claim. This was not a soldier losing control in the heat of battle. It was a premeditated transaction. The occupation apparatus created the financial incentive. Its personnel acted on it.In November 2020, the Army announced that Captain Bhoopendra Singh and two others had been dismissed from service and sentenced following a court martial. This was presented in some quar ters as proof that accountability is possible within the occupation's own structures.But the reward programme that motivated the killings was not abolished. The AFSPA, which forecloses independent civilian prosecution, remains in force. What was addressed was the symptom. What was left entirely untouched was the institution that produced it.The Amshipora killings were not new. In 2010, Mohammad Shafi Lone, Shahzad Ahmad Khan and Riyaz Ahmad Lone were lured from their village with the promise of paid work, killed in a remote area, staged as militants and presented as a successful operation. The method was identical. The incentive was identical. The staging was identical. In Machil, the named officers were never meaningfully prosecuted. In Amshipora, three men were dismissed. Both cases confirmed the same truth: this was never about rogue soldiers. It was about a system designed to produce a body count and reward those who delivered one.Imtiyaz Ahmed, Abrar Ahmed and Mohammed Ibrar were not symbols. They were young men who came to Shopian looking for work. They found, instead, soldiers who needed bodies and a system that paid for them. Three men were dismissed. The reward structure was not abolished. The AFSPA was not repealed. The Rashtriya Rifles remain deployed in Kashmir. The families of the three men have a conviction on paper.They do not have justice. Justice would require the occupation to dismantle the conditions that made Amshipora possible. It has shown no intention of doing so.