A Kashmiri
Junior Member
Srinagar, March 29 (KMS): In occupied Kashmir, a prominent human rights group has said that they had found up to 1,000 unmarked graves in Baramulla district and urged international agencies to help them identify the dead bodies.
Members of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) fear that their relatives who disappeared following arrests by Indian troops might be buried in those graves. APDP found the graves during a yearlong survey in the region around the town of Uri.
Releasing its survey report “Facts under ground,” the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), a constituent of J&K Coalition of Civil society (JKCCS), said the survey shows the total number of such nameless graves in Boniyar, Uri and Baramulla as 940 or nearly 1,000. A Kashmiri woman, Jana Begum whose three sons are missing in troops custody, released this survey report.
In Zandfaran, six kilometers west to Baramulla, six nameless graves were found. In Fatehgarh, four nameless graves were found while in Kichama around 235 graves of unidentified persons were found, the report said.
The locals were killed in different fake encounters by troops and later labeled them as foreign militants,” the report pointed out.
“These nameless graves contain bodies of those innocent Kashmiri civilians who were subjected to custodial disappearance and were killed by Indian troops dubbing them as foreign militants,” the human rights activist Parvez Imroze told media men in Srinagar, adding disappearance is a crime against humanity.
Human rights organization report said that there are around ten thousand people who were subjected to enforced disappearance by the troops in past 19 years in which about 4,000 have gone missing during the puppet regime of National Conference from 1996-2002.
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Members of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) fear that their relatives who disappeared following arrests by Indian troops might be buried in those graves. APDP found the graves during a yearlong survey in the region around the town of Uri.
Releasing its survey report “Facts under ground,” the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), a constituent of J&K Coalition of Civil society (JKCCS), said the survey shows the total number of such nameless graves in Boniyar, Uri and Baramulla as 940 or nearly 1,000. A Kashmiri woman, Jana Begum whose three sons are missing in troops custody, released this survey report.
In Zandfaran, six kilometers west to Baramulla, six nameless graves were found. In Fatehgarh, four nameless graves were found while in Kichama around 235 graves of unidentified persons were found, the report said.
The locals were killed in different fake encounters by troops and later labeled them as foreign militants,” the report pointed out.
“These nameless graves contain bodies of those innocent Kashmiri civilians who were subjected to custodial disappearance and were killed by Indian troops dubbing them as foreign militants,” the human rights activist Parvez Imroze told media men in Srinagar, adding disappearance is a crime against humanity.
Human rights organization report said that there are around ten thousand people who were subjected to enforced disappearance by the troops in past 19 years in which about 4,000 have gone missing during the puppet regime of National Conference from 1996-2002.
http://www.kmsnews.org/