Srinagar, July 11 -- The filing of charge sheets against six accused, including separatist leader Shabir Ahmad Shah, in connection with the 1996 Srinagar violence is another reminder that time does not erase accountability. Courts will determine individual guilt or innocence based on evidence, but the larger truth is beyond dispute: decades of violence, separatist politics and terrorism inflicted enormous suffering on Jammu and Kashmir and its people. For far too long, those who romanticised unrest wrapped themselves in the language of "cause" and "resistance" while ordinary Kashmiris paid the price. Families lost loved ones, children lost their futures, businesses collapsed, tourism suffered, education was repeatedly disrupted and genera...