Corpses were brought in by the truckload and buried on an industrial scale. The report cataloged 2,156 bullet-riddled bodies found in mountain graves and called for an inquiry to identify them. Many were men described as ‘unidentified militants’ killed in fighting with soldiers during the armed rebellion against Indian rule during the 1990s, but according to the report, more than 500 were local residents. ‘There is every probability,’ the report concluded, that the graves might ‘contain the dead bodies of enforced disappearances,’ a euphemism for people who have been detained, abducted, taken away by armed forces or the police, often without charge or conviction, and never seen again. (Read Full Article Here)












