Following the resolution passed by the European Parliament on the discovery of unnamed mass graves in Occupied Kashmir. The All Parties Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Kashmir, has urged the British government to impress upon India to ensure independent and impartial investigations into the matter and to secure the grave sites in order to preserve the evidence.
According to Kashmir Media Service, the call was made by Secretary of the APPG, MP Martin Later in a letter to the British Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, David Milliband.
The letter asked the European Commission to offer financial and technical assistance to the Indian government for the investigations. It also requested Milliband to raise the issue in the forthcoming dialogue on human rights, which is to take place in the second half of 2008 and to make direct representations to the government of India.
Expressing its concern over the safety of human rights activists including Parvez Imroz who are investigating the unmarked graves and other human rights abuses in Jammu and Kashmir, the letter demanded the Indian authorities to ensure their protection and allow them to operate without fear of harassment and violence.
It also urged the authorities to provide the illegally detained Kashmiris with all the necessary facilities including medical care, registration and prosecution, prompt access to family members, to lawyers and to independent courts, as well as accountability for any violation of such procedures.
The letter strongly condemned the unlawful killings, enforced disappearances, torture, rape and other human rights abuses, which have occurred in Held Jammu and Kashmir since 1989 and insisted that the families of the victims be granted full reparation.
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