Somewhere in J&K....

Chief minister Omar Abdullah has said that his government will start the process of exhuming and DNA profiling of bodies that lie in 38 graveyards. “It shall not happen overnight, but we will follow the recommendations of the state human rights commission,” the CM said. The issue of graveyards is tied to the emotive subject of those who “disappeared” in Kashmir’s 20-year-old insurgency. Organizations like Association for Parents of Disappeared Persons put the figure at 10,000 people. The government and security forces have long said the figure is exaggerated. It’s here the SHRC report on the 2,700 graves in north Kashmir comes in. Many see this as affirmation of the story of thousands of innocents who vanished in the nightmare of torture cells and fake encounters.