400000 claimed who, indeed Indian Sources.....
Those numbers are being used by Indian Forces for the reward and prizes by fake encounters and submitting forged reports. I repeat, you did not read the Leaks Article that clearly stated the same and was briefed in US Embassy. Further, it was reported that mass graves corpses are unidentified
Fake encounters[edit]
Hundreds of civilian's including women and children have been reported to be extrajudicially executed by Indian security forces and killings concealed as fake encounters.
[58] Despite government denial, Indian security officials have reportedly confessed to human right watch of widespread occurrence of fake encounters and its encouragement for awards and promotions
[62] According to a BBC interview with an anonymous security person, 'fake encounter' killings are those in which security personnel kill someone in cold blood while claiming that the casualty occurred in a gun battle. It also asserts that the security personnel are Kashmiris and "even surrendered militants".
[63] In 2010 three men were reported missing proceeding these missing reports 3 men claimed to be militants were killed in a staged gun battle the army also claimed they had found Pakistani currency among the dead. The major was subsequently suspended and a senior soldier transferred from his post.
[64] In 2011, a Special Police Officer and an Indian Army
Jawan were charged by the Kashmir police for murder of a civilian whom the duo had killed in an encounter claiming that he was a top
Lashkar-e-Taiba militant.
[65]
Disappearances[edit]
Indian security forces have been implicated in many reports for enforced disappearances of thousands of Kashmiris where the security forces deny having their information and/or custody. This is often in association with torture or extrajudicial killing. The number of men disappeared have been so many to have a new term "
half-widows" for their wives who end up impoverished. Human right activists estimate the number of disappeared over eight thousand, last seen in government detention.
[58][62][66] These are believed to be dumped in thousands of mass graves across Kashmir[67]
Mass graves[edit]
Mass graves have been identified all over Kashmir by human right activists believed to contain bodies of thousands of Kashmiris of enforced disappearances.
[68][69]A state human rights commission inquiry confirmed there are thousands of bullet-ridden bodies buried in unmarked graves in Jammu and Kashmir. Of the 2730 bodies uncovered in 4 of the 14 districts,
574 bodies were identified as missing locals in contrast to the Indian governments insistence that all the graves belong to foreign militants[68][70] According to a new
deposition submitted by
Parvez Imroz and his field workers asserted that the total number of unmarked graves were about 6,000.
[71] The British parliament commented on the recent discovery and expressed its sadness and regret of over 6,000 unmarked graves.
[72] Christof Heyns, a special rapporteur on
extrajudicial executions, has warned India that “all of these draconian laws had no place in a functioning democracy and should be scrapped.”
[71][73]
Extrajudicial killings by security personnel[edit]
In a 1994 report,
Human Rights Watch described summary executions of detainees as a "hallmark" of counter-insurgency operations by Indian security forces in Kashmir.
The report further stated that such extrajudicial killings were often administered within hours of arrest, and were carried out not as aberrations but as a "matter of policy".[74] In a 1995 report,
Amnesty International stated that hundred of civilians had been victims of such killings, which were often claimed by officers as occurring during "encounters" or "cross-fire".
[75] A 2010 US state department report cited extrajudicial killings by security forces in areas of conflict such as Kashmir as a major human rights problem in India.[23]
Torture and sexual violence[edit]
Indian security forces and police have been accused of the systematic use of torture.
US officials first showed concern regarding the widespread use of torture in 2007 where they presented evidence to Indian diplomats. Human rights groups state that 150 top officers have participated in torture as well as sexual violence and that the Indian government was covering up such acts.[76][77] According to Khurram Parvez, coordinator of the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, there are 7,000 recorded cases of sexual violence since 1990.
[78]
Now watch this if you have the heart.... reported in 2005, covering 15 years fight only...... Note: Not a Pakistani or Pro-Pakistan reporter.....
