Not a single claim in respect of the bodies buried in unmarked graves across north Kashmir has been made to the state government yet, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah today said. No DNA profiling has thus been conducted to link the blood sample of anyone to that of those buried in the graves.
Militancy in J&K at present was at an all-time low, just 5 per cent as compared to the 2002 levels, said Omar while batting for the withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) from parts of the Valley. “On the one hand the J&K Police and the CRPF are praised for a good job and on the other they are not trusted to handle the situation. The Army should be withdrawan from areas where people don’t want the Army,” he said.
The State Human Rights Commission had in 2011 detailed the existence of 2,730 bodies in close to 38 unmarked graves in north Kashmir raising the hopes among families who have been saying that their kin disappeared following militancy and could be among those buried in unmarked graves.
But no such linkage has yet been established with Omar Abdullah today saying in response to The Tribune query that no one had given a blood sample yet or identified a grave where their kin could be buried to enable the state to exhume the body to determine the truth.
The state had earlier told the families to identify the graves of their missing relatives and give blood samples so that the government could exhume the particular body and conduct DNA tests on it to match the samples.
“We had earmarked an officer in the state human rights cell. We had asked families to come forward with DNA samples. No one has come,” the CM said while raising the pitch for the establishment of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission through a joint initiative between India and Pakistan to determine the truth behind the Valley’s disappearances and bodies in unmarked graves.
“A Truth and Reconciliation Commission straddling the Line of Control must be set up by India and Pakistan to determine the truth behind the Valley’s disappearances. Answers to this question don’t lie here alone.
Everyone who disappeared wasn’t killed by security forces here. What about those killed by militants and those who may have died during training in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir camps?” asked the Chief Minister.
He argued that it was easy to say that the alleged forged elections of 1987 in J&K were the root of militancy. “But is the answer so simplistic? Where did militancy start? What happened to our people?
Monday 24 December 2012
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