Kashmiris Protest

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Protest over graves in Kashmir
By Altaf Hussain
BBC News, Srinagar

The protests follow the reported discovery of 940 graves last month

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have lobbed teargas shells to break up a violent demonstration in Srinagar.

The demonstrators were protesting over the issue of nearly 1,000 unmarked graves discovered in border areas of the valley.

Several people, including three members of the media, have been injured in the clashes.

The incident began with a procession by a group of women from the Jama Masjid, or Grand Mosque, in the city.

They demanded an investigation into the whereabouts of the people who have disappeared after, it is alleged, they were arrested by the Indian security forces.

The procession was led by the mother of a prominent militant, Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar.

Prayer meeting

Her son-in-law Sirajuddin has been missing since his arrest, allegedly by the paramilitary border security force (BSF) in 1992.

The main separatist alliance, the All Party Hurriyat Conference (APHC) organised namaz-e-janaza, or funeral prayers, on Friday for the people buried in unmarked graves.

The biggest prayer meeting was held in the Jama Masjid.

The APHC Chairman Umar Farooq also attended the prayers.

He said the discovery of the unmarked graves has caused concern among parents about the well-being of the disappeared persons.

He appealed to what he called "the civilised world" to put pressure on the Indian government to inform next-of-kin about the whereabouts of those who have disappeared.

He said the unmarked graves were an example of the kind of atrocities the Indian government had perpetrated in Kashmir.

"Such examples are hard to find even in the times of Halaku and Changez Khan," he said.

Amnesty International and other human rights organisations have urged the Indian government to launch urgent and impartial investigations into the unmarked graves.

Pakistan has also expressed its concern and demanded an investigation.

But the Indian army has said the reported discovery of the unmarked graves is an attempt to malign the military.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Protest over graves in Kashmir

 

[IceCold]

So much for the indians raising voice over human rights violations in china, sidelining completely of what they have been doing for so long in kashmir. Hypocrisy at its best.

 

[EagleEyes]

Since when Altaf Hussain became a journalist? kiddin

 

[mujahideen]

If India is innocent in this crime too, they should hold an independent investigation into this matter.

 

[T-Rex]

At present America, Israel, Britain and India are the four greatest human rights violators. These are the countries which claim, day and night, that they are the champions of human rights. I wonder how long the world has to watch this heinous game? When these countries talk of human rights they mean only their rights, according to these so-called champions of human rights those whom they suspect of being their enemies have no rights.If these countries were serious about human rights peace would have prevailed all over the world. These states are the true source of all kinds of terrorism(one must not forget that CIA is the creator of Bin Laden).

 

[mujahideen]

At present America, Israel, Britain and India are the four greatest human rights violators. These are the countries which claim, day and night, that they are the champions of human rights. I wonder how long the world has to watch this heinous game? When these countries talk of human rights they mean only their rights, according to these so-called champions of human rights those whom they suspect of being their enemies have no rights.If these countries were serious about human rights peace would have prevailed all over the world. These states are the true source of all kinds of terrorism(one must not forget that CIA is the creator of Bin Laden).

Well said. But you see as long as the media covers up these acts of what I call genocide, nothing can be done.

 

[T-Rex]

Well said. But you see as long as the media covers up these acts of what I call genocide, nothing can be done.

Who's stopping us from having our own credible media? We can only blame our own governments for this monumental failure. In the end we cannot even establish the plain facts and the Palestinians and the Kashmiris suffer as a consequence.

 

[mujahideen]

Who's stopping us from having our own credible media? We can only blame our own governments for this monumental failure. In the end we cannot even establish the plain facts and the Palestinians and the Kashmiris suffer as a consequence.

NO we can blame ourselves. We all watch Western media, why because it will make us modern. While watching this we forget about own language and traditions. Now if we ourselves dont care about oru people, then who will.