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India-Pakistan
Call for probe into unmarked graves in J&K
2008-04-01
SRINAGAR — Kashmir separatists yesterday called on Amnesty International to discover the identities of bodies in nearly 1,000 unmarked graves found in the revolt-hit region.
Unmarked graves you say? And the terrorists separatists have no idea how they got there?
The Association of Parents of Disappeared People, or APDP, says around 8,000 people have vanished during the nearly two-decade-old nsurgency. The group on Friday said it had discovered close to 1,000 ”nameless graves” in 18 villages in the district of Uri.

“It is a matter of grave concern for us. We want to know who are buried in these graves,” said Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, a leading cleric and head of the moderate wing of the region’s main separatist alliance. “We urge Amnesty International and other rights groups to identify the people buried in these graves,” Farooq said.
Posted by:Steve White

#2  A lot of the poeple the APDP claims to be searching for are at home:

Mufti traces 26 ‘missing’ to their homes

a civil liberty group said 84 persons disappeared in custody of various security agencies since Mufti took over November last.

On Monday, police said they have completed investigations into 58 cases. Of them, police traced 26 at their homes and one in Central Jail, Srinagar.

Besides, police said six ‘disappeared persons’ have joined the militant ranks as two others were confirmed to have been taken away by militants. Five others, according to police, had joined the fugitives and were killed in militancy related incidents.
Posted by: john frum   2008-04-01 06:46  

#1  Bodies from the LOC are carried to nearby border villages for burial.
Some will be locals who crossed over for jihadi training, most will be foreign fighters (Pakistani mostly). A minority will be false encounters (killed by Kashmiri Police in centralJ+K and and dumped there).
Posted by: john frum   2008-04-01 06:26  

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