Srinagar, May 28 (KMS): The Amnesty International (AI), a renowned Human Rights organization, in its annual report for the year 2008, has deplored the continued incidents of custodial deaths, enforced disappearances, extra-judicial killings, violence against women, harassment of human rights defenders and discovery of unnamed mass graves in occupied Kashmir.

The Amnesty International in its report revealed that Indian troops and their agents continued to enjoy impunity for torture, deaths in custody, abductions and unlawful killings.

Contradicting the claims of the Indian authorities that less than 4.000 people had been missing since 1989, the report pointed out that the number surpasses to more than 8,000. Quoting the report of the Association of the Parents of Disappeared Persons the Amnesty said that in the past 19 years 1,051 people had been victims of enforced disappearance in Baramulla district alone adding that the puppet regime had failed to provide information to the families of the victims about their whereabouts.
 
The report maintained that on April 18,2008, the AI had called upon India to investigate enforced disappearances and discovery of unnamed mass graves, believed to be of those killed by Indian troops in custody and fake encounters.

The AI deplored that the Indian government did not issue the invitations to the Working Groups on Arbitrary Detention and on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to take an account of the situation.

The Amnesty International called on the Indian government to conduct immediate and impartial probe into enforced disappearances and the discovery of unnamed mass graves in the territory by forensic experts to bring the perpetrators to justice.