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| Disappeared man's Skeleton found at Pampore | | | EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Dec 29: Two days after the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced or involuntary Disappearances came into force, the mystery shrouding the fate of a missing man was solved a few kilometers from saffron town, Pampore in Pulwama district. .
On December 25, a group of labourers while clearing the rubble of a damaged house at Ladoo, Pampore found a skeleton. They also found some clothes, an amulet and a black head band from the spot, which helped a local family to identify the buried man.
It was Muhammad Maqbool Dar's skeleton. Dar, the younger brother of a militant of Al Umer Mujahideen was abducted by government gunmen in 1995. Since then his whereabouts could not be ascertained.
Dar's elder brother, Mohammad Yaseen Dar, was killed in an encounter in 1994. The police and the armed forces, however, continued to harass the family. In 1995, government gunmen abducted Maqbool and subjected him to enforced disappearance. Fifteen years after his abduction, his remains surfaced despite the efforts of the perpetrators to bury the evidence.
Commenting on the recovery of the skeleton, Parvez Imroz, the founder of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) reiterated his demand for a probe into all disappearances. According to APDP around 8000 persons have disappeared since 1989. The police, however, vehemently contest the APDP figures. The police have been saying that the disappeared persons went across the LoC to seek arms training in Pakistan administered Kashmir.
Imroz also made a mention of the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced or involuntary Disappearances which came into force on December 23. The convention has been signed by 20 countries including India. However, India has not yet ratified it.
Imroz urged the government of India to ratify the convention. "New Delhi must locally frame a legislation against involuntary disappearances", he said. |
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