This ugly reality behind the façade of the so-called "greatest democracy" in the world, an expression mostly popularised by India's friends in the West, especially the US, endorses the soul-rendering pleas of the relatives of the thousands of persons, who either go missing for unknown resons or are simply picked up from their houses, to dampen the spirit of the freedom fighters, for their whereabouts. It also bears out the repeated accusation of Syed Ali Geelani, the intrepid and long-standing leader of the Kashmiri struggle for freedom from the Indian yoke, that a large number of Kashmiri youth are being brutailly killed or mysteriously disappear ever day.
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Mohammad Jamil
The Jammu-Kashmir State Human Rights Commission
(J&KSHRC) in a report said: “At 38 places visited in north Kashmir,
there were 2,156 unidentified dead bodies buried in unmarked graves.” It
is highly likely that the state’s commission has downplayed the number
of dead and the mass graves, however the report revealed that there were
21 unmarked graves in Baramulla, three each in Bandipore and Handwara
and 11 in Kupwara. The report said all these bodies with bullet injuries
were handed over by the police to the local population for burial and
were classified as unidentified militants. Reportedly, a few bodies were
defaced, 20 were charred, five only had skulls remaining and there were
at least 18 graves with more than one body each. The report, released
on Saturday, comes after a three-year inquiry by an 11-member team led
by Bashir Ahmad Yatoo, the senior superintendent of police of the
investigative wing of the commission. However, the Association of
Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) estimated that around 10,000
people went missing during the last two decades, and reckoned many
missing people may have ended up in these unmarked graves.On 11th May
2011, European Parliament passed a resolution linking Trade relationship
with India and Kashmir. Para-33 of the resolution stated that human
rights, democracy and security are essential elements of the
relationship between EU and India. “Therefore we call on both the sides
to ensure that dialogue on open issues is stepped up with particular
reference to Kashmir,” the resolution added. But such resolutions are
just any eye wash as they have not been able to stop genocide of the
Kashmiris. The only way is that international community forces India to
implement the United Nations Security Council resolutions giving the
people of Kashmir the right to decide about their future. In 2008 also,
EU Parliament had asked New Delhi to urgently ensure independent and
impartial investigations into all suspected sites of mass graves in
Kashmir and as an immediate first step to secure the grave sites in
order to preserve the evidence. But such resolutions were of no avail,
as most European countries wish to do business with India – being plus
one-billion market. Anyhow, the list of India’s crime against humanity
is long. In March 2006, the molestation of a 15-year girl by an Indian
Major had triggered protest demonstrations at Tanghmarg in Baramulla
district of North Kashmir. The CNS, a local news agency had reported
that the troops of 52-Rashtriya Rifles in civvies led by a major barged
into the house of Abdul Ghani son of Ghulam Rasool and molested his
daughter Mehmooda Akhtar, which was one of the many cases in Indian Held
Kashmir. In 2008, facts about killing of five innocent Kashmiris by
Indian army in a fake encounter at Pathribal village in Occupied Kashmir
in 2000 have come to light. The army had justified the killing in an
encounter on the plea that five Kashmiris had killed 36 Sikhs at
Chhatisinghpura on 20th March 2000. The government of India and its
media had drummed up the propaganda that Pakistan was involved in the
killings of the Sikhs.
The freedom fighters organization and Pakistan had denied the
allegations, but because of the pressure from human rights organizations
the case was handed over to India’s Central Bureau of Investigations in
February 2003. Since 1989, the Indian army and other law enforcing
agencies have martyred around 91000 Kashmiris when the latter took up
arms to counter India’s state terrorism, but the Indian forces’ record
of killing Kashmiris in fake encounters and molestation of girls and
women is ignominious. In the past half a century, there have been
negotiations between India and Pakistan but whenever the thorny issue of
Kashmir came under discussion, India did find some excuse to derail the
process. The stalled composite dialogue was perhaps the longest one but
no serious thought had been given to resolve the core issue of Kashmir,
and India as usual too the position that until terrorism ends, it would
not agree to any solution. After hiatus of about three years, once
again secretary and ministerial-level talks have been started, but there
is no hope that India would shun its intransigence. In fact, India’s
RAW and other agencies have the knack of creating a ‘scene’ and kill
innocent Kashmiris in the fake encounters to prove their point that
Pakistan has done nothing to stop cross-border terrorism. Kashmiris have
faced the longest ordeal and suffered repression, death and destruction
even during the undivided subcontinent. The British that claim to be
civilized, upholders of democratic values and human rights had played a
key role in the subjugation of Kashmiris. However, the plight of the
people even in India’s own provinces is deplorable. Repressive laws such
as Armed Forces Special Powers Act have provided Indian forces the
powers to kill with impunity any person in Northeast India. Indian
forces have shot down several innocent persons in fake encounters and
custodial killings, and as such it is involved gross human rights
violations in this region. Because of inept policies of Indian
government law and order situation in all 13 Naxal affected states such
as Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Eastern Uttar Pradesh,
Jharkhand, West Bengal, western Orissa and Bihar is hopeless. Central
Reserve Police Force also suffered heavy casualties of its men in Naxal
attacks due to poor intelligence reports. International community has
all along shown apathy towards atrocities of Indian forces on the people
of Kashmir, its minorities and people of other regions in addition to
Kashmir. Despite the fact that India faces insurgencies in Nagaland,
Mizoram, Assam, Bodoland, Manipur and Tripura where it is using
heavy-handed methods and use of brutal force to quell the unrest, which
fact has been censured by human rights organizations including Amnesty
International. To force Pakistan to forget about Kashmir and to weaken
it, India is involved in ongoing anti-state activities in Balochistan,
because India is covertly opposed to mega projects including Gwadar.
India has been working on developing the North-South Transportation
Corridor, the Uzbekistan-Afghanistan-Iran highway, a strategic road
project linking Tajikistan with Chabahar via Afghanistan to counter
Pakistan’s strategic interests. These Indian projects are likely to
suffer a setback as soon as Gwadar port is further developed and emerges
as a key port in the area that marks the confluence of South Asia,
Central Asia and West Asia.
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