Digging for truth in Kashmir’s unmarked graves
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SRINAGAR — The last time Bilkees Manzoor saw her father was 10 years ago on a snowy January night when a dozen soldiers took him from their family home in Srinagar, capital of Indian Kashmir.
“They said he was needed for questioning and would be released in a couple of hours. We never saw him again,” she said.
Rights groups say as many as 8,000 people, mostly young men, have been “disappeared” by the security forces in Indian Kashmir since an armed insurgency against Indian rule erupted in the Muslim-majority region in 1989.
Manzoor insists her father, who ran a small medical business, had no links to any militant group and she has never been told why he was taken into custody..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111007com7.html
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