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Kashmir's anonymous graves

Human rights workers say that in the past 18 months they have identified dozens of burial grounds where they believe Indian security forces dumped more than 2,400 corpses. In a region struggling to emerge from two decades of violence that has left 68,000 people dead, the graveyards have deeply shaken Kashmir, digging up memories of the estimated 10,000 people who disappeared at the height of the fighting.

  • In this photo taken on October 7, 2009, local Kashmiri villagers walk past a graveyard containing unidentified dead at Bimyar, about 96 kilometers west of Srinagar. Human rights workers say that in the past 18 months they have identified dozens of burial grounds where they believe Indian security forces dumped more than 2,400 corpses. (AP Photo)
  • Kashmiri farmer Atta Mohammed, 70, gestures as he speaks to the Associated Press at a graveyard where he says he has helped bury 235 unidentified dead. Human rights workers say that in the past 18 months they have identified dozens of burial grounds where they believe Indian security forces dumped more than 2,400 corpses. (AP Photo)
  • In this photo taken October 9, 2009, Pervez Imroz, legal aide of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Srinagar. In a region struggling to emerge from two decades of violence that has left 68,000 people dead, the graveyards have deeply shaken Kashmir, digging up memories of the estimated 10,000 people who disappeared at the height of the fighting. (AP Photo)
  • Kashmiri farmer Atta Mohammed, 70, walks past unmarked graves at a graveyard where he says he has helped bury 235 unidentified dead. (AP Photo)
  • Former rebel commander Ghulam Mohammad Mir shows bullet wounds on his body during an interview with the Associated Press at a graveyard containing unmarked graves in Kichama, some 65 kilometers (41 miles) west of Srinagar, India. (AP Photo)
  • Angna Chatterji, one of the conveners of the International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice, speaks as lawyer Pervez Imroz looks on during a press conference in Srinagar on December 2, 2009. Human rights workers have found the graves of nearly 2,400 unidentified people scattered in cemeteries across dozens of mountainous villages in Jammu and Kashmir during a three year survey, the rights group said, alleging that some of the dead were likely innocent people killed by government forces. (AP Photo)
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