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More unnamed graves discovered
A human rights group in Jammu and Kashmir Thursday said that during months-long survey they succeeded in locating more than 130 unidentified bodies in scores of nameless mass graves in Sonawri area of Bandipora district.
The group, Voice of Victims, said with help of locals they discovered a unnamed grave yard in the area.
Abdul Rouf Khan, who is the co-coordinator of the group, said: an investigation team headed by Abdul Qadeer Dar, Executive Director visited the area and gathered information about the people who were buried in a graveyard in Bhat Mahle during the past 23 years.
He said three bodies handed over to locals by the police were buried in a single grave. “The locals told the team that the troops and police used to bring bodies and hand over to them for burial. They revealed that the unidentified men were detained by the forces in nearby STF camp and after killing them they were handed over to local committee for burial.”
Khan while quoting, a local, Manzoor Ahmad said that once troops brought a body and handed over to them for burial; they identified him as a Pakistani militant but later he proved to be a resident of Kokernag in South Kashmir.
The man who the forces claimed was a Pakistan militant was a carpenter who was picked up in South Kashmir and killed in North Kashmir. He said that his body was exhumed after a year from the graveyard.
“Investigation team found that the person labeled as militant by the armed forces, and identified as Abu Hafiz resident of Pakistan and killed in Safapora Ganderbal encounter was Abdul Rehman Padroo resident of Kokernag, a carpenter who was picked up by the forces in Srinagar on December 08, 2006, and later killed in fake encounter at Safapora. Police on January 28, 2007, clearly stated that he was killed by its Special Operations Group in a fake encounter in Ganderbal and his body was exhumed from Bhat Mahle graveyard,” he said.
Manzoor told the human rights group that he was witness to burial of at least 20 charred bodied. Locals said that once they refused to bury unidentified bodies, armed forces started burying them inside the STF camp few meters away from the graveyard. They revealed, to the group, that over 50 bodies have been buried inside the STF camp which is surrounded by government offices including a paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force camp.
“According to locals once an infamous and cruel police inspector abducted and raped a teenage girl from the area and later killed her. She was also buried inside the camp after they (STF) evacuated the camp, her body was also exhumed.” The group claimed.
http://www.kashmirdispatch.com/headlines/241018356-more-unnamed-graves-discovered-in-kashmir.htm
Previously | http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/09/mass-graves-of-kashmir
A human rights group in Jammu and Kashmir Thursday said that during months-long survey they succeeded in locating more than 130 unidentified bodies in scores of nameless mass graves in Sonawri area of Bandipora district.
The group, Voice of Victims, said with help of locals they discovered a unnamed grave yard in the area.
Abdul Rouf Khan, who is the co-coordinator of the group, said: an investigation team headed by Abdul Qadeer Dar, Executive Director visited the area and gathered information about the people who were buried in a graveyard in Bhat Mahle during the past 23 years.
He said three bodies handed over to locals by the police were buried in a single grave. “The locals told the team that the troops and police used to bring bodies and hand over to them for burial. They revealed that the unidentified men were detained by the forces in nearby STF camp and after killing them they were handed over to local committee for burial.”
Khan while quoting, a local, Manzoor Ahmad said that once troops brought a body and handed over to them for burial; they identified him as a Pakistani militant but later he proved to be a resident of Kokernag in South Kashmir.
The man who the forces claimed was a Pakistan militant was a carpenter who was picked up in South Kashmir and killed in North Kashmir. He said that his body was exhumed after a year from the graveyard.
“Investigation team found that the person labeled as militant by the armed forces, and identified as Abu Hafiz resident of Pakistan and killed in Safapora Ganderbal encounter was Abdul Rehman Padroo resident of Kokernag, a carpenter who was picked up by the forces in Srinagar on December 08, 2006, and later killed in fake encounter at Safapora. Police on January 28, 2007, clearly stated that he was killed by its Special Operations Group in a fake encounter in Ganderbal and his body was exhumed from Bhat Mahle graveyard,” he said.
Manzoor told the human rights group that he was witness to burial of at least 20 charred bodied. Locals said that once they refused to bury unidentified bodies, armed forces started burying them inside the STF camp few meters away from the graveyard. They revealed, to the group, that over 50 bodies have been buried inside the STF camp which is surrounded by government offices including a paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force camp.
“According to locals once an infamous and cruel police inspector abducted and raped a teenage girl from the area and later killed her. She was also buried inside the camp after they (STF) evacuated the camp, her body was also exhumed.” The group claimed.
http://www.kashmirdispatch.com/headlines/241018356-more-unnamed-graves-discovered-in-kashmir.htm
Previously | http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jul/09/mass-graves-of-kashmir
