Latin American Federation of Association of Relatives of the
Disappeared in 1981, initiated to commemorate their loved ones who gone missing.
On increasing numbers of missing persons across the world, UN General Assembly
expressed deep concern by its resolution 65/209 on 21 december 2010 & adopted
International Convention for the protection of all persons from enforced
disappearance, declared 30 August to be observed as International Day of the
Disappeared. The Article 1 of the convention "no one shall be subjected to
enforced disappearance & no exceptional circumstances whatsoever whether war or
threat of war, political instability or public emergency may be invoked as
justification", since three decades Families of Missing persons of Kashmir
wandering here & there who lost their love ones by indian forces & state
sponsored militia Tha Ikhwanis. On human rights day under the banner of
Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), a group of villagers
submitted 132 cases from a single area of Banihal village to J&K state human
rights commission, how worst situation is there that 132 cases of missing
persons in one area of one district, the ADPD & Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil
Society claims more then 8000 cases of Missing Persons, A report published in
2009 by International People's Tribunal for Human Rights & Justice in Kashmir
that documented 2700 unmarked, unknown & mass graves which contain thousands of
bullet riddled bodies across 55 villages of northern Kashmir, it is buried
evidence of indian forces' crime against humanity, which is endorsed by State
Human Rights Commission in 2011, to which Indian Gov't refused to forensic
examination of bodies. According to Article 5 of The Convention "the widespread
& systematic practice of enforced disappearance of persons constitutes a crime
against humanity", in view of this in Kashmir there is open & widespread
violation of international norms & standards by Indian Gov't, Black laws like
Public Safety Act which allows Indian forces to detain anyone without any
offence or charge & can keep in custody for two years without any trial, another
black law Armed Forces Special Power Act AFPSA gives impunity to forces for all
kind of offence therefore indian forces involved in massive offences includes
enforce disappearance of persons, brutal torture, molestation of women & girls,
extra judicial killings. The international human rights organisation widely
criticized & demanded to revoke such black laws but Indian Gov't never respond
positively & it is widely heard that indian army claims if they would not
allowed to operate without impunity then Kashmir will go out of hand, what a
pity on humanity is this that they ask for license to kill or freedom of
offence. Fact Finding Committee of Social Activists recently back from Kashmir
who were not allowed to show video & photographs by Delhi Press Club, Kavita
Karishnan & Maimoona both activists shown deep concern over worst situation of
Kashmir on ground, more then 4000 lifted by security forces under PSA, even
young children were detained & kept them into an unknown place. Indeed, it is
really deep concerned that growing number of missing persons in Kashmir by
impunitized indian army & state sponsored militia ikhwanis. Right to life is
everyone's right, right to security, right to truth to families of missing
persons, prohibtion of torture, prohibtion of extra judicial killings, right to
recognize before law & right of freedom & liberty are guaranteed by
International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR) to which india is
signatory. Also the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court described
enforced disappearance is a crime against humanity. On widespread human rights
abuses on indian side, it is the core responsibility of civilized nations to
barred India's crime against humanity instead of appeal, to which she never pay
heed.