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The songs I sing are songs of death. - (once a woman narrated while mourning her son, Kupwara)
The rivers of Kashmir, and across its lands, are the graveyards of our dead. - ( words of a woman mourning her son, Baramulla.)
In Hathlonga village of Baramulla, a single grave in the village have 8 people buried. The incident occurred in August-September 1995 between Hathlonga and Nambla village in the Uri area. Security personnel used explosive substances to blast a hut with 8 persons inside.
Nullah Nigley, Leyan Marg Gulmarg, Baramulla - A single grave containing 12 bodies buried in the early 1990s.
Gharkote village of Baramulla - One grave contains 16 bodies, torched to death. Security personnel claimed all of them to be fighters killed in the early 1990s. The persons died in mortar shelling on a hut.
Wilgam Martyrs Graveyard, Kupwara - 1 grave containing 5 skulls. Police claimed that all 5 belonged to unidentified foreign fighters killed in an encounter with security forces in the Bangas area of Kupwara in 1999. Only skulls were handed to the locals for burial.
Kanenar Kalarus Graveyard, Kupwara - A single grave containing 17 bodies. All torched to death in December 1990 by mortar shelling in the huts located in the vicinity of this grave. All bodies were extensively damaged.
There they are, rows upon rows. [of unmarked graves] - a community elder, Regipora, Kupwara.
Children ask us about these graves. Children ask us why soldiers are everywhere. Children grow up here thinking violent death is “natural.” - a community elder in a remote village of Baramulla
Martyrs graveyard in Trehgam, Shaheed Maqbool Bhat's village, holds an empty grave with a gravestone, marking the continued demand for the return of Maqbool Bhat’s body. The graveyard also holds 100 graves, of which 82 are unidentified. Burials took place between 1990-2005.
