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Amnesty
report should be examined in totality: Omar
Tuesday March 22, 2011 08:10:14 PM,
IANS
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Jammu: Chief Minister
Omar Abdullah Tuesday said that Amnesty International's report on
alleged human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir has to be examined
in "totality before comments are rushed into".
In a post on micro-blogging site Twitter, a day after the report was
released to media in Srinagar, the chief minister said: "The Amnesty
report deserves to be examined in its totality before comments are
rushed into. So don't expect knee jerk reactions from me."
In another tweet, Abdullah said: "And those of you working
yourselves into a frenzy about the Amnesty report - I have not been
given a copy so what do I comment about?"
Amnesty has demanded immediate scrapping of the Jammu and Kashmir
Public Safety Act (PSA) that is used to detain suspects without
trial for years.
Describing the PSA as a "lawless law", Amnesty estimated that
8,000-20,000 people have been detained under the law in the past two
decades of insurgency in the state.
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