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Probe disappearances, mass graves: activists
Tuesday October 25, 2011 05:39:02 PM,
IANS
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New Delhi: Human
rights activists have called for investigations into enforced
disappearances and unidentified graves in Jammu and Kashmir.
Taking part in a meeting organised by the People's Union for Civil
Liberties (PUCL) and People's Union for Democratic Rights (PUDR)
here over the weekend, the speakers also sought punishment to the
guilty.
Other demands made on the occasion were that India should ratify
the UN Convention on Enforced Disappearances to which it is a
signatory and must also amend the Prevention of Torture Bill of
2010.
The speakers included Khurram Parvez, Paramjeet Kaur Khalra, Nitya
Ramakrishnan, Usha Ramanatham, Justice Rajender Sachar and Vrinda
Grover.
Participants at the meeting said the assertion that those buried
in the unidentified graves in Kashmir were not civilians but
militants did not in any way "mitigate the enormity of the
discovery".
"It was emphasised that the existence of so many unidentified
bodies in unmarked graves itself merited an investigation to
establish the circumstances of the deaths and affix
responsibility, irrespective of the identities of those buried."
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