Belgian advocacy group calls for UN probe into Kashmir graves
Ali Raza Syed, who is the president of both the Kashmir Centre EU and the ICHD told The Express Tribune in a telephone interview, that a letter had been sent to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to look into the Amnesty International report about the unmarked graves. Syed said that a Kashmir human rights group had earlier revealed that the graves had been found in a dozen villages in an area known as Uri over a 14-month period.
An Amnesty International statement said, “The grave sites are believed to contain the remains of victims of unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, torture and other abuses which occurred in the context of the military operation persisting in the state since 1989 by the Indian security forces.”
Syed pointed out that in a recent report, the BBC had also confirmed that one of the locations identified by the Kashmir-based rights group, the Association of the Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), is Kichama village, 62 km from Srinagar. The APDP says more than 8,000 people have disappeared in Indian-administered Kashmir over the past two decades.
Syed has demanded that the UN secretary-general send a fact-finding mission to the region for an independent and impartial investigation into the matter. His letter states: “We request His Excellency on behalf of the oppressed people of Jammu and Kashmir, to use his good offices to stop the genocide by Indian forces in Jammu and Kashmir and we want the international community to realise its responsibility to bring an end to the occupation of Kashmir.”
In his letter, Syed also called on Ban to ask India to immediately, in light of UN Security Council resolutions on the Kashmiri people’s right to self-determination, put an end to state terrorism, withdraw occupying forces, release all political prisoners and allow Kashmiri expatriate leaders and human-rights groups the freedom to travel in the disputed territory.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 14th, 2011.
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Atleast they are burrying these pakistani terrorist in grave according to islamic rituals.while in pakistan dead body of baloch,sindhies,pashtuns,hindus are thrown in the streets like a garbage
@Sao Lao: "last time i checked there is proper UN resolution 1948. so it does get attention and by God we will put it on your faces every time, every platform we get."
So why cry about India's involvement in Baluchistan ?
@Nothing but the Truth: last time i checked there is proper UN resolution 1948. so it does get attention and by God we will put it on your faces every time, every platform we get. till then keep carrying on your state funded terrorism there
Belgian group run by Pakis will not get any attention except in Pakistan.
@Zalim sings front of kashmir killings bombay incident is nothing u understand or not.
@Zalim singhs Front this killing bombay incident is peanut you understand or not.
After the excellent publicity that Dr. Fai has done for these 'Kashmiri' groups, doubt if anyone takes their grandiloquence seriously now. As for the graves it was the Indian human-rights group that unearthed them. Investigations are ongoing, the culprits would definitely be punished
@zalim Seriously? Thats your idiotic response? So millitants action justify the presence of mass grave and rape of kashmiri women? Wasnt it last summer when there were mass riots in Kashmir because of rape and murder of a women by the soldiers? Now even the CM wants to amend the AFPSA. Keep up the ostrich policy in kashmir and deny everything, when people come on the streets like in tunisia and egypt, then it will be too late.
And who is going to investigate all the on going killings in PAK ?
Ali Raza Syed. My my. He dosent sound like a Belgain. Why not this gentle man look into the attrocities of Taliban like mass killings of Pandits and their displacement from the valley, which can be equated to Palestine issue?