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Many Indian skeletons in Kashmiri graves
WSN Network

SRINAGAR: The strategies of the Indian state in dealing with minorities are pretty much the same everywhere. While the National Human Rights Commission has ordered another probe into the disappearance cases in Punjab, the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) has sought the intervention of Amnesty International and the international community to pressurize india to exhume bodies from more than a 1,000 graves and establish the identity of those buried indiscriminately. 

After a year of painstaking research, the APDP has found cemetries in more than 18 villlages  along the dividing line between India and Pakistan. Like Punjab, in Kashmir too, extrajudicial  killings and involuntary disappearances were the norm (and continue to be) when the security forces killed, maimed and tortured people with impunity. The APDP, which estimates that around 10,000 people went missing during the nearly two-decade-old separatist revolt in Kashmir, says many of the missing could have ended up in these unmarked graves. On expected lines, Indian military authorities have termed these allegations as baseless. 

9 April 2008
 

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