Indian inquiry confirms graves in Kashmir hold more than 2,000 unidentified bodies

aftab ahmed

Voter (50+ posts)
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SRINAGAR, India Hundreds of unmarked graves in Kashmir hold more than 2,000 bullet-riddled bodies that may include innocent victims, despite police claims that they were militants fighting Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan territory, according to an Indian government report.
The report following a three-year investigation launched amid allegations of rights abuses by the army, paramilitary and police is the first official acknowledgment that civilians killed in the two-decade conflict may have been buried in unmarked graves.
It stops short of confirming that suspicion, long alleged by rights groups, but says there is every possibility that ... various unmarked graves at 38 places of north Kashmir may contain the dead bodies of locals.
Previously, officials have insisted that all the bodies were of militant fighters, as claimed by police when they were handed over to villages for burial.
The report says 2,156 unidentified bodies were found in single and mass graves in three northern mountainous regions, while 574 other bodies found in the graves have been identified as local residents.
The findings by the Jammu-Kashmir State Human Rights Commission are likely to deepen cynicism in restive Kashmir, where anti-India sentiment runs deep and most people want independence or merger with neighboring Pakistan.
India and Pakistan have fought two wars since 1947 for control of the territory, which is divided between them. India accuses Pakistan of arming and training rebel fighters, but Pakistan says it only offers moral and diplomatic support for their cause.
Rebel groups began fighting in 1989 against Indian rule, and more than 68,000 people have been killed in the uprising and subsequent Indian crackdowns. Most have been civilians.
Rights groups have said some 8,000 people have disappeared, and accused government forces of staging gunbattles to cover up killings. The groups also say suspected rebels have been arrested and never heard from again.
The state government has countered that most of the missing were likely Kashmiri youths who crossed into Pakistan for weapons training.
In 2008, a rights group reported unmarked graves in 55 villages across the northern regions of Baramulla, Bandipore and Handwara, after which researchers and other groups reported finding thousands of single and mass graves without markers.
Indian officials set up the commission to investigate and also began a separate police investigation, the findings of which have yet to be released.
The commissions 17-page report also urged DNA profiling to identify the bodies, saying the matter should be investigated thoroughly by an impartial agency.
The head of a local rights group welcomed the report as vindicating its research into the graves.
Security agencies accused us of maligning the image of the armed forces, said Pervez Imroz of the International Peoples Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice. Now, we will seek judicial intervention if the government fails to implement the reports recommendations.
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ealtaf

Minister (2k+ posts)
Amnesty Urges India to Probe Mass Graves in Indian Held Kashmir

London, August 23 (KMS): London-based Amnesty International has urged India to allow an impartial investigation of hundreds of unmarked graves in occupied Kashmir after an official report confirmed they contain more than 2,000 bullet-riddled bodies, including hundreds of local residents.
The Amnesty International in a statement said that the investigation of graves needed to be widened to the whole of the occupied portion territory. "All unmarked grave sites must be secured and investigations carried out by impartial forensic experts," it said.
Pertinently, the Human Rights Commission of the occupied territory in a recent report had said that 2,156 unidentified bodies were found in graves in the Kashmir Valley while 574 other bodies in the graves were identified as local residents. The commission's report is the first official acknowledgment that civilians killed by Indian police and troops during the last two-decade may have been buried in unmarked graves.
 

ealtaf

Minister (2k+ posts)
Re: Amnesty Urges India to Probe Mass Graves in Indian Held Kashmir

[h=1]Moon urged to take cognisance of mass graves in IHK[/h]



Srinagar, August 23 (KMS): Veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet leader, Syed Ali Gilani has appealed to the United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, to take cognisance of the discovery of unidentified graves in occupied Kashmir and arrange an enquiry in the matter by the War Crime Tribunal of the World body.
In a statement in Srinagar, today, the veteran leader maintained that the discovered graves were of those Kashmiris who were killed by Indian troops in fake encounters and in custody. Syed Ali Gilani said, Indian army and police personnel have been killing Kashmiris in staged gun-battles to get promotions, medals and cash rewards.
Hurriyet leaders, Nayeem Ahmed Khan, Farooq Ahmed Dar and Javed Ahmed Mir, in their statements also expressed serious concern over the discovery of over two thousand unmarked graves in the Kashmir Valley.
On the other hand, London-based Amnesty International in a statement urged India to allow impartial forensic experts to investigate the unnamed graves in the occupied territory.
Meanwhile, tension gripped Islamabad town, today, after Indian policemen beat up a shopkeeper. Eyewitnesses said that as the word about the incident spread in the area, shopkeepers downed their shutters and tried to stage protests. The policemen resorted to baton charge to disperse the protesters. Later, the police arrested at least fifteen youth.
 

PkRevolution

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Indian Democracy, Mass graves found in occupied Kashmir

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Indian State supported massacre in occupied Kashmir.

Atta Mohammad gravedigger and caretaker at Chehal, who testified that these bodies, brought by the police, primarily after dark, were buried between 2002-2006. Atta Mohammad said that the bodies appear in his nightmares, each in graphic, gruesome detail.

Terrorised by the task forced upon him, his nights are bereft of sleep. Atta Mohammad said that the bodies appear in his nightmares, each in graphic, gruesome detail.


Nearly two decades of genocidal violence record 70,000+ dead, 8,000+ disappeared, 60,000+ tortured, 50,000+ orphaned,incalculable sexualised and gendered violence, a very high rate of people with suicidal behaviours; hundreds of thousands displaced; violations of promises, laws, conventions, agreements, treaties; mass graves; mile upon mile of barbed wire; fear, suppression of varied demands for participation to determine Kashmir’s future, spirals of violence, protracted silence. Last year, Kashmir’s only hospital with services for mental health received 68,000 patients. Profound social, economic, and psychological consequences,and an intense isolation have impacted private, public, and everyday life. It has generated brutal resistance on the part of groups that have engaged in violent militancy. Repressions of struggles for self-determination and internationalpolicies/politics have yielded severe consequences, creating a juncture at which the failure of governance intersects with a culture of grief.



SHAME TO INDIAN CRUEL FACE AND Bad DEMOCRACY

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desh1857

Politcal Worker (100+ posts)
Re: Indian Democracy, Mass graves found in occupied Kashmir

My friend
Let me know how many innocent people died in Karachi since holly month of ramzaan started
I feel sorry for for those families.
Please stop Bucthers in Pakistan first :angry_smile:: :angry_smile:
 

garry317

Banned
Re: Indian Democracy, Mass graves found in occupied Kashmir

mind ur karachi,baluchistan,khyber,drone attacks etc..then come to kashmir:lol: