Kashmir’s Torture Trail [couchtripper]
Kashmir’s Torture Trail – Raped By Soldiers [couchtripper]
The issue of Human Rights by The Fundamentalists is one thing.
By The Government?
Media Too!
One feels extremely shameful even to talk of the genocide of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.
Let’s set our house in order as well.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jul/10/kashmir-torture-trail-video
Story:
Indian authorities should immediately open an independent, transparent, and credible investigation into the unmarked graves discovered in Jammu and Kashmir state, Human Rights Watch said today. An inquiry by the police investigation team of the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has found 2,730 bodies dumped into unmarked graves in four of the state’s 14 districts. Thousands of Kashmiris have been forcibly disappeared during the last two decades of violence, their whereabouts unknown.
http://www.hrw.org/news/2011/08/24/india-investigate-unmarked-graves-jammu-and-kashmir
More than 2,000 corpses, believed to be victims of Kashmir‘s long-running insurgency, have been found buried in dozens of unmarked graves in the divided region, an Indian government human rights commission report has said.
The graves were found in dozens of villages on the Indian side of the line of control, the de facto border that has split the former kingdom betweenIndia and Pakistan for nearly 40 years.
“At 38 places visited in north Kashmir, there were 2,156 unidentified dead bodies buried in unmarked graves,” the inquiry found.
Though campaigners and community leaders in Kashmir have long said such graves exist – and often provided extensive documentary evidence to back up their claims – the report is the first official statement confirming their existence.
Released over the weekend, its publication is the result of a three-year inquiry by an 11-member team led by a senior police official.
Up to 70,000 people died in the 22-year insurgency in Kashmir, which pitted armed separatist groups, many backed by Pakistan, against New Delhi‘s rule.
The worst of the violence occurred during the mid-1990s when a vicious struggle pitted thousands of militants against Indian security forces supplemented by locally-hired irregulars. Human rights abuses were routine with militants intimidating local communities and killing so-called spies while Indian authorities resorted to abductions, torture and extra-judicial executions on a wide scale. The graves appear to date from this period.
Kashmir is India’s only Muslim-majority state and the struggle rapidly took on a religious dimension. The victims in the mass graves had been buried by local communities.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/21/kashmir-unmarked-graves-thousands-bodies
Sad state of affairs. Govt, Police & Army would never accept that there were extra-judicial killings.State is not bothered nor are militants. The common man is stuck sc—-d from all sides.