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Amnesty
team visits Kashmir's summer unrest victims' kin
Thursday March 24, 2011 03:05:42 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar:
After releasing a damning 82-page report against alleged human
rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir, members of global rights
watchdog Amnesty International are visiting the families of those
killed in last year's summer unrest in the valley.
Three team members are Thursday visiting north Kashmir and they
would be Friday meeting the families of victims in summer capital
Srinagar, sources here said.
The three-member Amnesty team comprising the group's South Asia
director, Madhu Malhotra, and members Bikramjeet Batra and Ramesh
Gopalakrishnan has visited the homes of three youths allegedly
killed by the security forces in south Kashmir's Anantnag district
during last year's summer unrest.
Batra told IANS, "Yes, we visited the families of victims in
Anantnag and the families have given us some documents regarding the
deaths of their dear ones last year."
"These documents would have to be verified. We also met Jammu and
Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF) leaders and they discussed their
petition in the state high court regarding the deaths of people in
last year's unrest," Batra said.
"We will be verifying these documents and then decide what needs to
be done," he added.
Over 100 civilians were killed when stone-pelting protesters clashed
with security forces in the valley last summer. Amnesty
International Monday lashed out against alleged human rights abuses
in Kashmir through use of the Public Safety Act (PSA), which allows
suspects to be detained without trial for two years.
Regarding Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's tweet that people should
not expect any knee-jerk reaction from him about the Amnesty report
as he had not read it, Batra said, "For the last 10 days, we have
been approaching the Chief Minister's Office for an appointment, but
so far this has not been confirmed."
The Amnesty team is scheduled to remain in the Valley till Sunday.
Abdullah Wednesday told the state assembly in winter capital Jammu
that the Amnesty report would not be relegated to the dustbin, but
considered on merit.
He also said he was ready to dispose of the controversial Public
Safety Act (PSA) if a consensus is worked out on that.
The PSA was legislated in 1978 by ruling National Conference founder
and the then chief minister Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah. The act was
meant to be used against timber smugglers, narcotic peddlars and
other anti-social elements. But with passage of time, subsequent
governments have used the harsh PSA against political rivals.
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