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India state forces commit human rights abuses in IHK: US
- dailytimes.com -
Saturday, April 09, 2011
The United States on Friday faulted Indian security forces for committing gross human rights violations – from killings to torture – in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) and other conflict-hit regions.
“There were numerous reports that the government and its agents committed arbitrary or unlawful killings, including the extra-judicial killings of suspected criminals and terrorists, especially in areas of conflict such as Jammu and Kashmir, the North Eastern States, and the Naxalite belt, where non-governmental forces also committed such killings,” the US State Department said in the annual 2010 assessment of the state of human rights around the world.
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reported that on January 21 Manipur security personnel abducted and killed a shop owner in Chekon. Memcha Fazeruddin stated that her husband’s body was returned with 15 bullet holes, but the body was clad in combat dress that was free of any bullet holes, which suggested tampering with the body.
On March 14, according to the ACHR, members of the Manipur State Police Commando Unit arrested Chongtham Nanao. The next morning, police informed the local village head that they had recovered a dead body from the location of an alleged exchange of gunfire between police and armed terrorists. Nanao’s relatives later identified his body. The local media stated that a combined team of Thoubal Police Commandos and 21 Assam Rifles were involved in the killing.
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