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| APDP reminds NC of promise on missing persons | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Jan 29: Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) today claimed that the highest number of cases of enforced or involuntary disappearances (EID) took place from 1990 to 2002 especially during the National Conference (NC) rule from 1996-2002. A huge number of persons were subjected to enforced disappearance during the NC government by the various law enforcing agencies, the APDP alleged.
In a handout released to the press today, the APDP said that while in opposition, a private member’s resolution was moved by two NC MLAs, Abdul Rahim Rather and Ali Mohammad Sagar demanding setting up of a judicial commission to look into the cases of EID and custodial killings which the then Law Minister, Muzaffar Hussain Beig rejected. NC then accused the PDP-Congress Government of betraying the people by not appointing the enquiry commission.
The APDP said that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, the then the National Conference President had on May 2, 2008, while talking to the media in Srinagar, had put the number of EID at 4000 and reiterated his demand for a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). He was further reported to have said that “once the issue of EID was probed the exact number of disappeared people would be known”. He had further stated that “Once the TRC is set up it should be asked to probe the same, so that the identity of the people buried in the unmarked graves is established”.
Unfortunately soon after Abdullah came to power he backtracked on the plea that Indian and Pakistani governments should approve TRC.
The demand of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) since 1998, for constituting a commission under the Commissions of Enquiry Act has not been considered by the governments. Apparently enforced disappearance is an issue of the political parties till they are in the opposition be it PDP, NC etc. but after assuming the power they prefer forgetting their own promises and thus siding with the perpetrators, the APDP said.
The victims and survivors of desaparecidos are urging the government to probe all the cases of EID as has happened in other countries. The case in point is of Nepal where Supreme Court directed the state to appoint a commission to probe the cases of human rights violations, the APDP said in its release.
It further said that the Government of India after the Mumbai terrorist attack became hysteric and galvanized the world opinion against the perpetrators and its supporters for seeking justice for the victims. But as far the mass and nameless graves are concerned, which was taken seriously by the international organizations and even the European Parliament passed a resolution on July 10, 2008, urging Government of India to enquire into the issue of nameless / mass graves found in 18 villages of Uri district.
While the India state failed to come clear on the issue of nameless and mass graves, the police and army rejected the report, terming it baseless without any investigations.
The activists of APDP locating nameless and unmarked graves are being harassed, detained and attacked. It speaks that how human rights of the people of Jammu and Kashmir have been compromised and how the international concerns are being ignored, when the state terrorism comes under scrutiny, the ADPD alleged adding that it believes that the perpetrators of any terrorist act, state or non-state, should be similarly accounted for and the perpetrators have to be taken to justice.
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