Nazi organizers and low level officers accused of the Holocaust often replied, "we were just following orders."

Organizing oppression is also an active participation. No matter where one stands in the chain of command.

"...it’s understandable if it’s too much to ask for us to risk our lives, our children, or even our jobs, to save others. Just don’t welcome the murderers, don’t help them organize the oppression or make it “less terrible” and don’t turn people in. That will usually be enough."

The road to Auschwitz was built by hate but it wasn’t paved with indifference. It was paved with collaboration — Rivka Weinberg https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/opinion/auschwitz-bystander-theory.html

A state apparatus that prides itself on killing people in the name of maintaining 'law and order,' cannot absolve bureaucrats from being perpetrators of organizing oppression. Even if they 'don't agree with its methods.'

In Kashmir, when hundreds of children were killed and blinded. Thousands are put into prisons and disappeared. Nobody can change the system which is designed to oppress people.

Laws like AFSPA turn every Kashmiri into subhumans. The crimes and oppression against them are validated by laws. The power of this system is created through violence. The respect to it is given by fear. It's not an ordinary job. It's collaboration and participation.