Police submits a fresh list of unmarked graves found across the Kashmir valley to State Human Rights Commission (SHRC)

Srinagar, Apr 1: Police has submitted a fresh list of unmarked graves found across the Kashmir valley to State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) and exercise of counting of such graves had been carried out under an “Internal Administrative Order (IAO).” Under the preview of the order, all the district Senior Superintendent of Police (SSPs) were directed by their higher ups to find out the details ad number of the unmarked graves in their respective districts. The order was passed soon after expose by the investigating wing of SHRC that there are 2156 unidentified bodies buried at 38 sites in Jammu and Kashmir. The expose created uproar in political, human rights and civil society circles. Director General of Police (DGP) Kuldeep Khoda told Greater Kashmir that a fresh list of unmarked graves has been submitted to SHRC. “Counting of such graves was carried out throughout the Valley. We have submitted the fresh list to SHRC,” DGP said. However...

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Vietnam finds mass grave of communist soldiers

HANOI, Vietnam — A mass grave has been found containing the remains of 23 communist soldiers believed to have been killed during the Tet Offensive, seen by many as the turning point of the Vietnam War. Col. Nguyen Minh Hung of provincial military command in central Khanh Hoa province said Tuesday that construction workers who were expanding a highway found the site last week. He says it took 30 soldiers and militiamen six days to recover the remains, none of which were identified. The soldiers were believed to have been killed while withdrawing after attacking an airport and the local military headquarters of the Saigon government, he said. Thousands of Viet Cong guerrillas attacked major towns across southern Vietnam during the Tet Offensive in January 1968. Monday, 2 April 2012 http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/apr/02/vietnam-finds-mass-grave-of-communist-soldiers/...

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Moscow market fire kills 15 migrant workers

MOSCOW: Fifteen people died Tuesday when a night time fire tore through a two-story Moscow market warehouse in which migrant workers from a former Soviet republic were camping out. "We have found another body and now there are 15," a Moscow emergencies ministry spokesman told AFP. 'They were migrant workers. We are trying to confirm which (ex-Soviet) republic they came from." Unconfirmed news reports said the migrants were from the impoverished Central Asian nation of Tajikistan. Numerous Moscow markets employ cheap laborers from the region without giving them proper housing or pay. The blaze broke out early Tuesday at the market on the southern outskirts of the city called Kachalovsky. Officials said it took two hours to put out. Emergency workers described squalid living conditions in which the workers slept on hard cots that were stacked on top of each other in rows of four without any direct access to the outside. The workers...

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Titanic archive - identification and disposition of victims

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Tragic story of the Titanic one of many to touch Atlantic Canadians

HALIFAX - His was the fourth body pulled from the icy North Atlantic days after the Titanic sank in 1912. Sidney Leslie Goodwin was only 19 months old when he died. The little English boy is buried...

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