"According to the police, the execution videos released by the insurgents were new in India-administered Kashmir's two-decade-long insurgency and made with the aim of frightening local people. "I think this is part of a media blitzkrieg strategy to instil terror. Also, they [the militants] are trying to copy Islamic State's strategy of beheading and other means of brutal killings," a senior police official told DW on condition of anonymity."