Report: Over 8000 Kashmiris disappeared in custody of Indian forces in occupied Kashmir
Over 8,000 Kashmiris have vanished in the custody after they were picked up by the Indian troops.
SRINAGAR (Dunya News) – More than 8000 Kashmiris have disappeared in the custody whom the Indian troops, police and paramilitary forces detained during the the last 29 years in the occupied Kashmir, reported by KMS.
According to the data released by the Research Section of the Kashmir Media Service on the occasion of the International Day of Disappeared, today, over 8,000 Kashmiris have vanished in the custody after they were picked up by the Indian troops, police and paramilitary forces.
Indian troops in their unabated state terrorism subjected thousands of Kashmiris to custodial disappearance during the last twenty-nine years and the families of the victims have no information about their whereabouts.
The report maintained that thousands of unnamed graves had been discovered in the territory and the human rights activists feared that these graves could be of the disappeared Kashmiris.
The impunity provided to the troops and police personnel through draconian laws like Armed Forces Special Powers Act, Disturbed Areas Act and Public Safety Act gave them the license to kill and harass the people and ransack their possession without being questioned and the tragedy is that the burden of proof is shifted on the victims.
