The 'Grave' Reality of Kashmir's Brutal Graves
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Monday, 03 October 2011, 23:48 IST |
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Crimes of Military or Militants?
The State Human Rights Commission has confirmed that 574 of the unrecognized bodies belonged to the locals who vanished involuntarily. International People's Tribunal on Human Rights in Kashmir (IPTK) has also documented a list of 49 bodies, who were all identified as "Pakistani militants" by state, but later investigations by IPTK revealed that 47 of them were locals killed in fake encounters. Were they bodies of people killed by soldiers or militants, or in encounters between both? There should be a wider investigation into the areas of unmarked graves. The government has so far has been negligent in identifying these unclaimed bodies, and seems to be playing behind the curtains.