The Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, Omar Abdullah, said that while thee were no mass graves in the state, there are unmarked graves with not more than two bodies buried in them.
ASSERTING THAT there were no mass graves in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah said there are unmarked graves with not more than two bodies buried in them. He said 17,000 civilians were killed in the state since 1990, and militants of 12 countries were killed or arrested in Jammu and Kashmir.
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He said the government will perform DNA testing to identify people buried in the unmarked graves. “There are no mass graves in Jammu and Kashmir. The word is so easy to speak. There are not any graves comprising 200 or 300 people. There are unmarked graves having not more than two bodies buried in them,” Omar said while replying to a resolution seeking discussion on unknown graves, missing persons and deaths taken place in the State since 1989 and need for constituting Truth and Reconciliation Centre (TRC).
The resolution was moved by NC legislators such as Mir Saifullah, Nazir Ahmed Gurezi and Aijaz Jan. Omar said that an impression is being created as if mass graves exist in Jammu and Kashmir on the pattern of Cambodia and Germany where autocrat rulers buried hundreds of people in one grave.