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Between 1989-2010, the actions of India’s military and paramilitary forces in Kashmir have resulted in 10,000+ enforced and involuntary disappearances and over 100,000+ deaths, including through extrajudicial or “fake encounter” executions, custodial brutality N others
Between 1989-2010, the actions of India’s military and paramilitary forces in Kashmir have resulted in 10,000+ enforced and involuntary disappearances and over 100,000+ deaths, including through extrajudicial or “fake encounter” executions, custodial brutality N others
The lawyers have reportedly filed 15,000 petitions since 1990, inquiring, largely unsuccessfully, into the location and health of detainees and the charges against them.The tactics and the strategies used in holocaust, have been implemented in Kashmir since the start.
The pattern of enforced disappearances in Kashmir is similar to "Nacht und Nebel”(Night and fog), directive issued by Hitler.
The land of Jammu and Kashmir is home to uncountable "mass-unknown graves".Massified testaments of state power, these unknown, unmarked, and
The land of Jammu and Kashmir is home to uncountable "mass-unknown graves".Massified testaments of state power, these unknown, unmarked, and
mass graves seek to produce social death and proscribe remembrance. Acknowledgement and articulation of events that caused these deaths are forbidden. However, keeping alive memory, local communities state, is "resistance".
Atta Mohammad, 68 years of age, gravedigger,testified to burying 203 bodies on a hillside adjacent to the Jhelum river between
2002-2006. Atta Mohammad stated that the bodies he has buried appear in his nightmares, each in graphic, gruesome detail.
2002-2006. Atta Mohammad stated that the bodies he has buried appear in his nightmares, each in graphic, gruesome detail.
“I have been terrorized by this task that was forced upon me. My nights are tormented and I cannot sleep, the bodies and graves appear in my dreams. My heart is weak from this labour. I have tried to remember all this... the sound of the earth as I covered the graves.
bodies and faces that were mutilated.Mothers who would never find their sons. My memory is an obligation. My memory is my contribution. I am tired".According to the reports,most of the dead bodies were completely damaged and their identification was not possible.
Each grave has more than one body, some even have dozens.however,
"The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons", Kashmir, seeks investigation into these mass graves, with the hope of finding some evidence of their loved ones, who have been detained by the army.
"The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons", Kashmir, seeks investigation into these mass graves, with the hope of finding some evidence of their loved ones, who have been detained by the army.
enforced disappearance > fake encounter > unknown graves.
We are living in a state where, even the dignified burial is denied to the dead.
Largest democracy has also the largest stains of blood of Kashmir on it.
#SrinagarEncounter
#KashmirBleeds
We are living in a state where, even the dignified burial is denied to the dead.
Largest democracy has also the largest stains of blood of Kashmir on it.
#SrinagarEncounter
#KashmirBleeds
