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| HM's amnesty package | | Omar mum on return of disappeared persons | | Early Times Report
Jammu, May 10: The government has received 700 applications seeking return of youth from Pakistan and 125 have been finalized. The home coming of the militants shall commence shortly. This was stated by Omar Abdullah while talking to media persons yesterday. However, Omar did not say how many applications had been received from parents of disappeared persons and how many of them had been finalized.
New Delhi had offered a package for militants desirous of coming back from Pakistan and Pakistan administered Kashmir last year. The militants on their return will have to undergo detention for a month or so and ensure their presence in the concerned police stations every week.
The phenomenon of enforced disappearance started in the state with the commencement of militancy in 1989. According to Association of Parents of Disappeared persons (APDP) around 8000-10,000 persons have been subjected to enforced disappearance in the state during the past two decades. The APDP has also prepared a list and made it public as well. The government, however, maintains that the persons shown in the disappeared list had actually gone to Pakistan to seek arms training.
APDP vehemently contests official claims. The founder of APDP Advocate Parvez Imroz says if disappeared persons are in Pakistan then their parents must avail the Home Ministry's amnesty package. "But till date not a single parent has approached the government in this connection", he said.
In Pakistan, Imroz said the parents of the disappeared persons are told that their kith and kin went to Afghanistan. In Nepal they are told that they went to India and in Kashmir we are told that our youth went to Pakistan. This is ridiculous", he said.
Parvez said that the home coming as per official statement is about to commence and in the coming days the tall claims of the government shall stand exposed. "This is the high time when government must accept the truth and issue a statement on the disappeared persons", he said. |
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