SRINAGAR: An Indian government inquiry has said dozens of graves in
Indian Held Kashmir holds more than 2,000 unidentified bodies.
According to the media reports, an Indian government inquiry says
dozens of unmarked graves in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) hold more than
2,000 unidentified bodies.
The Jammu-Kashmir State Human Rights
Commission says in a report that police had claimed the 2,156 corpses
were militants fighting against Indian rule in portions of the disputed
Himalayan region.
Rights groups say, however, that innocent
people have been caught up in the conflict and some 8,000 have
disappeared since 1989.
The commission was set up in 1997 after
widespread allegations of rights abuses by the army, paramilitary and
police. The report is likely to deepen cynicism in restive Kashmir
where anti-India sentiment runs deep and most people want independence
or merger with Pakistan. Online
