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In Indian Occupied Kashmir, members of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) demanded intervention of International Court of Justice to probe the enforced disappearances in the valley.
Last week, the families of the disappeared and human rights advocates around the world joined together in commemorating the International Week of the Disappeared. In Kashmir, members of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) demanded intervention of International Court of Justice to probe the enforced disappearances in the valley. The issue of disappearances is linked with mass graves. Some years back, a human rights group released a report “Buried Evidence” claiming that there are about 2700 unmarked graves spread across 55 villages of North Kashmir’s Bandipora, Baramulla and Kupwara districts. Earlier in 2008, a similar report “Facts Underground” claimed that hundreds of unidentified graves – believed to contain victims of unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, torture and other abuses – were found in Jammu and Kashmir following which human rights bodies like Amnesty International expressed serious concern calling for thorough and impartial investigations. The state has been witness to unabated human rights violations during the last 20 years.
Extrajudicial and fake encounter killings, arbitrary detentions, torture, rape, arson, extortion, enforced disappearances and other abuses have marked Kashmir’s tryst with armed conflict. The worst part is that the perpetrators of these crimes have gone unpunished. With no accountability, there has been no deterrent in place. As a result, there has only been an increase in human rights abuses. Though international human rights bodies have been raising the issue regularly, they have not been able to check the violations. The State Human Rights Commission has stood as a helpless organization with its recommendations going unheeded. Infact in some cases, the trampling of human rights has been systematic, meant to crush the rebellion. In many cases inquiries were ordered, which only proved as valuable time buying tools in the hands of the authorities looking to save their skin. In the garb of laws like AFSPA and DAA, the men in uniform have committed human rights abuses and gone unpunished.
Mainstream media has also played a dubious role highlighting the abuses committed by militants while downplaying and more often ignoring all together the numerous violations at the hands of various security agencies. As a result, the Indian public has remained more or less ignorant about the actual situation in the state. The regimes in New Delhi have used this ignorance to their own good justifying their wrong decisions and policies. Meanwhile, it remains to be seen if APDP’s demand for ICJ’s intervention will evoke any response. However, the fact remains that unless there is accountability for the crimes of the past, human rights violations cannot be ruled out in the future as well.
http://www.risingkashmir.com/news/apdps-demand
Last week, the families of the disappeared and human rights advocates around the world joined together in commemorating the International Week of the Disappeared. In Kashmir, members of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) demanded intervention of International Court of Justice to probe the enforced disappearances in the valley. The issue of disappearances is linked with mass graves. Some years back, a human rights group released a report “Buried Evidence” claiming that there are about 2700 unmarked graves spread across 55 villages of North Kashmir’s Bandipora, Baramulla and Kupwara districts. Earlier in 2008, a similar report “Facts Underground” claimed that hundreds of unidentified graves – believed to contain victims of unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, torture and other abuses – were found in Jammu and Kashmir following which human rights bodies like Amnesty International expressed serious concern calling for thorough and impartial investigations. The state has been witness to unabated human rights violations during the last 20 years.
Extrajudicial and fake encounter killings, arbitrary detentions, torture, rape, arson, extortion, enforced disappearances and other abuses have marked Kashmir’s tryst with armed conflict. The worst part is that the perpetrators of these crimes have gone unpunished. With no accountability, there has been no deterrent in place. As a result, there has only been an increase in human rights abuses. Though international human rights bodies have been raising the issue regularly, they have not been able to check the violations. The State Human Rights Commission has stood as a helpless organization with its recommendations going unheeded. Infact in some cases, the trampling of human rights has been systematic, meant to crush the rebellion. In many cases inquiries were ordered, which only proved as valuable time buying tools in the hands of the authorities looking to save their skin. In the garb of laws like AFSPA and DAA, the men in uniform have committed human rights abuses and gone unpunished.
Mainstream media has also played a dubious role highlighting the abuses committed by militants while downplaying and more often ignoring all together the numerous violations at the hands of various security agencies. As a result, the Indian public has remained more or less ignorant about the actual situation in the state. The regimes in New Delhi have used this ignorance to their own good justifying their wrong decisions and policies. Meanwhile, it remains to be seen if APDP’s demand for ICJ’s intervention will evoke any response. However, the fact remains that unless there is accountability for the crimes of the past, human rights violations cannot be ruled out in the future as well.
http://www.risingkashmir.com/news/apdps-demand
