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Top security officers among 500 named for
'rights violations' in J&K
Thursday December 06, 2012 03:03:58 PM,
IANS
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Srinagar: Rights groups
here Thursday released the names of 500 people, including 235 army
personnel and 31 pro-government militants, for their alleged
involvement in incidents of rights violations in Jammu and Kashmir
during the last 20 years.
"The intention of naming army, paramilitary, police and
government-backed militants is to remove the veil of anonymity and
secrecy that has sustained impunity," International People's
Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Indian Administered
Kashmir (IPTK) and Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP)
told reporters here.
"Out of 214 cases, a list emerges of 500 individual perpetrators
-- 235 army personnel, 123 paramilitary personnel, 111 Jammu and
Kashmir police personnel and 31 government-backed militants," the
report said.
Among the alleged perpetrators are two major generals, three
brigadiers, nine colonels, three lieutenant colonels, 78 majors
and 25 captains of the army; 37 officers of paramilitary forces; a
retired director general of state police and a serving inspector
general of police.
"The cases presented in this report reveal that there is a policy
not to genuinely investigate or prosecute the armed forces
(personnel) for human rights violations. There is an occasional
willingness to order compensatory relief but not to bring the
perpetrators to justice," the report said.
Khurram Parvez, coordinator of the tribunal said: "The tribunal
and APDP cannot conclusively pronounce on the guilt of any of the
alleged perpetrators, but it is clear that enough evidence exists
to warrant further investigations and prosecutions."
The term "disappeared persons" is used to describe people lifted
either by the security forces or the militants during the last 23
years of violence in the state, whose whereabouts were never heard
of after that.
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