From: Habib Yousafzai <habibyousafzai@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:56 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] 'Probe unmarked, mass graves in Valley'
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Srinagar, Oct 14: The Chairman of Hurriyat Conference (G) Syed Ali Shah Geelani on Thursday urged the International Court of Justice and United Nations War Crimes Tribunal to initiate a probe into the unmarked and mass graves in the Valley. 'Probe unmarked, mass graves in Valley'
GEELANI URGES UN, INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE
ARIF SHAFI WANI
Geelani said during the past over two decades nearly 10,000 Kashmiris went missing in the custody of various agencies. "Unmarked and mass graves have been found in various areas of the Valley. We believe that most of the Kashmiris who have been subjected to enforced disappearance are buried in these unmarked and mass graves. We make a fervent appeal to the International Court of Justice and United Nations War Crimes Tribunal to send their teams to the Valley and initiate a through probe into the unmarked graves for unmasking the perpetrators and putting an end to killing of innocent Kashmiris," Geelani said.
The veteran leader urged the people to observe complete and peaceful protests shutdown on Friday, October 15 to show their concern over the unmarked graves and impress upon the global bodies to conduct probe into them.
Citing example of extra-judicial executions, Geelani said in 2006, five people mostly from south Kashmir's Islamabad district were killed in a fake encounter in Ganderbal for rewards and promotions by the Special Operations Group of Police and Army.
"The case is only tip-of an ice-berg. In past two decades, the troopers turned Kashmir into killings fields by executing Kashmiris and burying their bodies in unmarked graves to suppress the movement for right to self-determination," Geelani said.
Pertinently, last year the International Peoples' Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice, a rights watchdog in its report 'Buried Evidence: Unknown, Unmarked, and Mass Graves" had claimed to have to found 2700 unmarked and mass graves containing bodies of 2943 people across, 55 villages in north Kashmir.
"The graves include bodies of extra-judicial, summary and arbitrary executions, as well as massacres by the Indian military and paramilitary forces. Of these graves 2373 (87.9 percent) were unnamed. 154 contained two bodies each and 23 contained more than two bodies. Within these 23 graves, the number of bodies ranged from 3 to 17," the report had stated.
Geelani maintained that panacea for all the problems of Kashmiris' is demilitarization. "Till the troopers leave the State, Kashmiris will continue suffer, fathers will have to face the painful moment of shouldering coffins of their sons and playfields will turn into graveyards."
Accusing India of exploiting natural resources of Kashmiris, Geelani said the power generated from Kashmir is supplied to other states. "While Kashmiris are left in lurch. Our forests and mountains are also being vandalized by troopers. I want to maintain that Kashmiris will feel sense of security when the troopers vacate the State," he said.
Geelani paid glowing tributes to 110 persons killed during the ongoing unrest. "I take a vow that we won't allow anybody to do sell-out of the martyrs blood and come what may take the ongoing movement to its logical conclusion," he added.
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