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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Three men went missing in Indian-administered Kashmir in April.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Nothing extraordinary about that, but some time later their bodies were discovered near the Line of Control (LoC), which separates Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir - a fate which militants trying to cross the border often meet.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But during investigations, the police discovered that the men had been killed in a staged gun battle in a frontier area.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The probe also revealed that a senior officer of the Indian army - a major - had the three men kidnapped by offering them jobs as porters.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The troops later informed the police that they had killed three militants. The army also claimed to have found Pakistani currency and arms and ammunition on the three men.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The major has been suspended and another senior soldier transferred from his post. The army has pledged to &amp;quot;co-operate&amp;quot; with the police in investigations.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;So have &#039;fake encounter&#039; killings - where the security forces are alleged to carry out extrajudicial killings - returned to Kashmir?&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Political leaders across the spectrum - pro-Indian, anti-Indian and government ministers - think so.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&#039;Bogey of infiltration&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;There are hardliners in the Indian Army and intelligence agencies, as there are in Pakistan, who think that by raising the bogey of infiltration and gun battles near the border they can create terror among people and also put pressure on Pakistan,&amp;quot; says Mehbooba Mufti, prominent pro-India leader who heads the largest opposition party in the state.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Kashmir&#039;s law minister, Ali Mohammad Sagar says there have been &amp;quot;several proven cases of fake encounters in the past 20 years&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Investigating the latest &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; of the three men from Nadihal village in Barramulla district, the police said that the army major had even been rewarded with &amp;quot;a promotion and/or a cash reward&amp;quot; for killing the men whom they described as &amp;quot;militants&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But the army rejects this allegation, saying cash rewards for killing militants are a &amp;quot;myth&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Awards are given for individual bravery of a soldier,&amp;quot; says army spokesman Lt Col JS Brar.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The army says it has &amp;quot;zero tolerance&amp;quot; for human rights violations and soldiers found guilty are punished.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;It says more than 1,500 allegations of such violations reported to it had been investigated, and the overwhelming majority of them had &amp;quot;been found to be false&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But reports of such &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; continue to surface from time to time in Kashmir.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Three years ago five bodies were exhumed in Ganderbal district as a probe into claims that police were fabricating clashes with militants as an excuse to carry out extrajudicial killings.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;They had been buried as foreign militants, but later turned out to be civilians.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unnamed graves&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The district police chief and some other officers were arrested in connection with the incident.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Rights groups wonder why none of the army officers involved in the joint &amp;quot;fake encounter&amp;quot; with the police were arrested.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Also, human rights groups discovered nearly 3,000 unnamed graves in the Baramulla and Kupwara districts a couple of years ago.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Rights activist Khurram Pervez says 50 bodies buried in some of the graves were exhumed. And of the 47 which were identified, all but one were those of civilians.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Most of the people in Kashmir feel that such &amp;quot;fake killings&amp;quot; can be checked if the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is withdrawn.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The law gives the armed forces the powers of search and seizure. But more importantly, it gives them immunity against prosecution unless the Indian government accords prior sanction for such prosecution.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The law protects soldiers who may kill a civilian by mistake or in unavoidable circumstances during an operation against militants.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But many like leading lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom say that the law has been &amp;quot;misused to kill innocent civilians&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Mr Qayoom says the Indian government has withheld sanction to prosecute a soldier even when it is known that he killed civilians &amp;quot;arbitrarily&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;This is proof that such killings are a policy of the government rather than an aberration on the part of an individual soldier,&amp;quot; he says.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Political parties, including the governing National Conference, have repeatedly asked for the withdrawal of the law to make soldiers more accountable.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Mehbooba Mufti says the withdrawal of AFSPA has been recommended by a committee set up by the prime minister.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But there is still no indication that it may be withdrawn soon.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Till then, many in Kashmir believe, such &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; will keep happening.&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Nothing extraordinary about that, but some time later their bodies were discovered near the Line of Control (LoC), which separates Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir - a fate which militants trying to cross the border often meet.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The troops later informed the police that they had killed three militants. The army also claimed to have found Pakistani currency and arms and ammunition on the three men.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The major has been suspended and another senior soldier transferred from his post. The army has pledged to &amp;quot;co-operate&amp;quot; with the police in investigations.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;So have &#039;fake encounter&#039; killings - where the security forces are alleged to carry out extrajudicial killings - returned to Kashmir?&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Political leaders across the spectrum - pro-Indian, anti-Indian and government ministers - think so.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;There are hardliners in the Indian Army and intelligence agencies, as there are in Pakistan, who think that by raising the bogey of infiltration and gun battles near the border they can create terror among people and also put pressure on Pakistan,&amp;quot; says Mehbooba Mufti, prominent pro-India leader who heads the largest opposition party in the state.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Kashmir&#039;s law minister, Ali Mohammad Sagar says there have been &amp;quot;several proven cases of fake encounters in the past 20 years&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Investigating the latest &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; of the three men from Nadihal village in Barramulla district, the police said that the army major had even been rewarded with &amp;quot;a promotion and/or a cash reward&amp;quot; for killing the men whom they described as &amp;quot;militants&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But the army rejects this allegation, saying cash rewards for killing militants are a &amp;quot;myth&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Awards are given for individual bravery of a soldier,&amp;quot; says army spokesman Lt Col JS Brar.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The army says it has &amp;quot;zero tolerance&amp;quot; for human rights violations and soldiers found guilty are punished.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;It says more than 1,500 allegations of such violations reported to it had been investigated, and the overwhelming majority of them had &amp;quot;been found to be false&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But reports of such &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; continue to surface from time to time in Kashmir.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Three years ago five bodies were exhumed in Ganderbal district as a probe into claims that police were fabricating clashes with militants as an excuse to carry out extrajudicial killings.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;They had been buried as foreign militants, but later turned out to be civilians.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Rights groups wonder why none of the army officers involved in the joint &amp;quot;fake encounter&amp;quot; with the police were arrested.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Also, human rights groups discovered nearly 3,000 unnamed graves in the Baramulla and Kupwara districts a couple of years ago.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Rights activist Khurram Pervez says 50 bodies buried in some of the graves were exhumed. And of the 47 which were identified, all but one were those of civilians.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Most of the people in Kashmir feel that such &amp;quot;fake killings&amp;quot; can be checked if the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is withdrawn.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The law gives the armed forces the powers of search and seizure. But more importantly, it gives them immunity against prosecution unless the Indian government accords prior sanction for such prosecution.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The law protects soldiers who may kill a civilian by mistake or in unavoidable circumstances during an operation against militants.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But many like leading lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom say that the law has been &amp;quot;misused to kill innocent civilians&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Mr Qayoom says the Indian government has withheld sanction to prosecute a soldier even when it is known that he killed civilians &amp;quot;arbitrarily&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Mehbooba Mufti says the withdrawal of AFSPA has been recommended by a committee set up by the prime minister.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But there is still no indication that it may be withdrawn soon.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Till then, many in Kashmir believe, such &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; will keep happening.&lt;br /&gt;
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                <p align="justify"><font ></font></p><p align="justify"><font >Three men went missing in Indian-administered Kashmir in April.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Nothing extraordinary about that, but some time later their bodies were discovered near the Line of Control (LoC), which separates Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir - a fate which militants trying to cross the border often meet.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But during investigations, the police discovered that the men had been killed in a staged gun battle in a frontier area.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The probe also revealed that a senior officer of the Indian army - a major - had the three men kidnapped by offering them jobs as porters.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The troops later informed the police that they had killed three militants. The army also claimed to have found Pakistani currency and arms and ammunition on the three men.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The major has been suspended and another senior soldier transferred from his post. The army has pledged to &quot;co-operate&quot; with the police in investigations.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >So have 'fake encounter' killings - where the security forces are alleged to carry out extrajudicial killings - returned to Kashmir?</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Political leaders across the spectrum - pro-Indian, anti-Indian and government ministers - think so.</font></p><p align="justify"><font ><em>'Bogey of infiltration'<br /></em></font></p><p align="justify"><font >&quot;There are hardliners in the Indian Army and intelligence agencies, as there are in Pakistan, who think that by raising the bogey of infiltration and gun battles near the border they can create terror among people and also put pressure on Pakistan,&quot; says Mehbooba Mufti, prominent pro-India leader who heads the largest opposition party in the state.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Kashmir's law minister, Ali Mohammad Sagar says there have been &quot;several proven cases of fake encounters in the past 20 years&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Investigating the latest &quot;fake encounters&quot; of the three men from Nadihal village in Barramulla district, the police said that the army major had even been rewarded with &quot;a promotion and/or a cash reward&quot; for killing the men whom they described as &quot;militants&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But the army rejects this allegation, saying cash rewards for killing militants are a &quot;myth&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&quot;Awards are given for individual bravery of a soldier,&quot; says army spokesman Lt Col JS Brar.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The army says it has &quot;zero tolerance&quot; for human rights violations and soldiers found guilty are punished.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >It says more than 1,500 allegations of such violations reported to it had been investigated, and the overwhelming majority of them had &quot;been found to be false&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But reports of such &quot;fake encounters&quot; continue to surface from time to time in Kashmir.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Three years ago five bodies were exhumed in Ganderbal district as a probe into claims that police were fabricating clashes with militants as an excuse to carry out extrajudicial killings.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >They had been buried as foreign militants, but later turned out to be civilians.</font></p><p align="justify"><font ><em>Unnamed graves</em></font></p><p align="justify"><font >The district police chief and some other officers were arrested in connection with the incident.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Rights groups wonder why none of the army officers involved in the joint &quot;fake encounter&quot; with the police were arrested.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Also, human rights groups discovered nearly 3,000 unnamed graves in the Baramulla and Kupwara districts a couple of years ago.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Rights activist Khurram Pervez says 50 bodies buried in some of the graves were exhumed. And of the 47 which were identified, all but one were those of civilians.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Most of the people in Kashmir feel that such &quot;fake killings&quot; can be checked if the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is withdrawn.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The law gives the armed forces the powers of search and seizure. But more importantly, it gives them immunity against prosecution unless the Indian government accords prior sanction for such prosecution.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The law protects soldiers who may kill a civilian by mistake or in unavoidable circumstances during an operation against militants.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But many like leading lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom say that the law has been &quot;misused to kill innocent civilians&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Mr Qayoom says the Indian government has withheld sanction to prosecute a soldier even when it is known that he killed civilians &quot;arbitrarily&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&quot;This is proof that such killings are a policy of the government rather than an aberration on the part of an individual soldier,&quot; he says.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Political parties, including the governing National Conference, have repeatedly asked for the withdrawal of the law to make soldiers more accountable.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Mehbooba Mufti says the withdrawal of AFSPA has been recommended by a committee set up by the prime minister.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But there is still no indication that it may be withdrawn soon.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Till then, many in Kashmir believe, such &quot;fake encounters&quot; will keep happening.<br /></font></p>               </font>
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Three men went missing in Indian-administered Kashmir in April.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Nothing extraordinary about that, but some time later their bodies were discovered near the Line of Control (LoC), which separates Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir - a fate which militants trying to cross the border often meet.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But during investigations, the police discovered that the men had been killed in a staged gun battle in a frontier area.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The probe also revealed that a senior officer of the Indian army - a major - had the three men kidnapped by offering them jobs as porters.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The troops later informed the police that they had killed three militants. The army also claimed to have found Pakistani currency and arms and ammunition on the three men.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The major has been suspended and another senior soldier transferred from his post. The army has pledged to &amp;quot;co-operate&amp;quot; with the police in investigations.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;So have &#039;fake encounter&#039; killings - where the security forces are alleged to carry out extrajudicial killings - returned to Kashmir?&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Political leaders across the spectrum - pro-Indian, anti-Indian and government ministers - think so.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&#039;Bogey of infiltration&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;There are hardliners in the Indian Army and intelligence agencies, as there are in Pakistan, who think that by raising the bogey of infiltration and gun battles near the border they can create terror among people and also put pressure on Pakistan,&amp;quot; says Mehbooba Mufti, prominent pro-India leader who heads the largest opposition party in the state.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Kashmir&#039;s law minister, Ali Mohammad Sagar says there have been &amp;quot;several proven cases of fake encounters in the past 20 years&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Investigating the latest &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; of the three men from Nadihal village in Barramulla district, the police said that the army major had even been rewarded with &amp;quot;a promotion and/or a cash reward&amp;quot; for killing the men whom they described as &amp;quot;militants&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But the army rejects this allegation, saying cash rewards for killing militants are a &amp;quot;myth&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Awards are given for individual bravery of a soldier,&amp;quot; says army spokesman Lt Col JS Brar.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The army says it has &amp;quot;zero tolerance&amp;quot; for human rights violations and soldiers found guilty are punished.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;It says more than 1,500 allegations of such violations reported to it had been investigated, and the overwhelming majority of them had &amp;quot;been found to be false&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But reports of such &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; continue to surface from time to time in Kashmir.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Three years ago five bodies were exhumed in Ganderbal district as a probe into claims that police were fabricating clashes with militants as an excuse to carry out extrajudicial killings.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;They had been buried as foreign militants, but later turned out to be civilians.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unnamed graves&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The district police chief and some other officers were arrested in connection with the incident.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Rights groups wonder why none of the army officers involved in the joint &amp;quot;fake encounter&amp;quot; with the police were arrested.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Also, human rights groups discovered nearly 3,000 unnamed graves in the Baramulla and Kupwara districts a couple of years ago.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Rights activist Khurram Pervez says 50 bodies buried in some of the graves were exhumed. And of the 47 which were identified, all but one were those of civilians.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Most of the people in Kashmir feel that such &amp;quot;fake killings&amp;quot; can be checked if the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is withdrawn.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The law gives the armed forces the powers of search and seizure. But more importantly, it gives them immunity against prosecution unless the Indian government accords prior sanction for such prosecution.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The law protects soldiers who may kill a civilian by mistake or in unavoidable circumstances during an operation against militants.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But many like leading lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom say that the law has been &amp;quot;misused to kill innocent civilians&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Mr Qayoom says the Indian government has withheld sanction to prosecute a soldier even when it is known that he killed civilians &amp;quot;arbitrarily&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;This is proof that such killings are a policy of the government rather than an aberration on the part of an individual soldier,&amp;quot; he says.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Mehbooba Mufti says the withdrawal of AFSPA has been recommended by a committee set up by the prime minister.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But there is still no indication that it may be withdrawn soon.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Till then, many in Kashmir believe, such &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; will keep happening.&lt;br /&gt;
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	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;Fake killings&#039; return to Kashmir by Altaf Hussain&#039;,
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Three men went missing in Indian-administered Kashmir in April.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Nothing extraordinary about that, but some time later their bodies were discovered near the Line of Control (LoC), which separates Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir - a fate which militants trying to cross the border often meet.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But during investigations, the police discovered that the men had been killed in a staged gun battle in a frontier area.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The probe also revealed that a senior officer of the Indian army - a major - had the three men kidnapped by offering them jobs as porters.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The troops later informed the police that they had killed three militants. The army also claimed to have found Pakistani currency and arms and ammunition on the three men.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The major has been suspended and another senior soldier transferred from his post. The army has pledged to &amp;quot;co-operate&amp;quot; with the police in investigations.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;So have &#039;fake encounter&#039; killings - where the security forces are alleged to carry out extrajudicial killings - returned to Kashmir?&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Political leaders across the spectrum - pro-Indian, anti-Indian and government ministers - think so.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&#039;Bogey of infiltration&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;There are hardliners in the Indian Army and intelligence agencies, as there are in Pakistan, who think that by raising the bogey of infiltration and gun battles near the border they can create terror among people and also put pressure on Pakistan,&amp;quot; says Mehbooba Mufti, prominent pro-India leader who heads the largest opposition party in the state.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Kashmir&#039;s law minister, Ali Mohammad Sagar says there have been &amp;quot;several proven cases of fake encounters in the past 20 years&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Investigating the latest &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; of the three men from Nadihal village in Barramulla district, the police said that the army major had even been rewarded with &amp;quot;a promotion and/or a cash reward&amp;quot; for killing the men whom they described as &amp;quot;militants&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But the army rejects this allegation, saying cash rewards for killing militants are a &amp;quot;myth&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Awards are given for individual bravery of a soldier,&amp;quot; says army spokesman Lt Col JS Brar.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The army says it has &amp;quot;zero tolerance&amp;quot; for human rights violations and soldiers found guilty are punished.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;It says more than 1,500 allegations of such violations reported to it had been investigated, and the overwhelming majority of them had &amp;quot;been found to be false&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But reports of such &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; continue to surface from time to time in Kashmir.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Three years ago five bodies were exhumed in Ganderbal district as a probe into claims that police were fabricating clashes with militants as an excuse to carry out extrajudicial killings.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;They had been buried as foreign militants, but later turned out to be civilians.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unnamed graves&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The district police chief and some other officers were arrested in connection with the incident.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Rights groups wonder why none of the army officers involved in the joint &amp;quot;fake encounter&amp;quot; with the police were arrested.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Also, human rights groups discovered nearly 3,000 unnamed graves in the Baramulla and Kupwara districts a couple of years ago.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Rights activist Khurram Pervez says 50 bodies buried in some of the graves were exhumed. And of the 47 which were identified, all but one were those of civilians.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Most of the people in Kashmir feel that such &amp;quot;fake killings&amp;quot; can be checked if the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is withdrawn.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The law gives the armed forces the powers of search and seizure. But more importantly, it gives them immunity against prosecution unless the Indian government accords prior sanction for such prosecution.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The law protects soldiers who may kill a civilian by mistake or in unavoidable circumstances during an operation against militants.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But many like leading lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom say that the law has been &amp;quot;misused to kill innocent civilians&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Mr Qayoom says the Indian government has withheld sanction to prosecute a soldier even when it is known that he killed civilians &amp;quot;arbitrarily&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;This is proof that such killings are a policy of the government rather than an aberration on the part of an individual soldier,&amp;quot; he says.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Political parties, including the governing National Conference, have repeatedly asked for the withdrawal of the law to make soldiers more accountable.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Mehbooba Mufti says the withdrawal of AFSPA has been recommended by a committee set up by the prime minister.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But there is still no indication that it may be withdrawn soon.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Till then, many in Kashmir believe, such &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; will keep happening.&lt;br /&gt;
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                <p align="justify"><font ></font></p><p align="justify"><font >Three men went missing in Indian-administered Kashmir in April.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Nothing extraordinary about that, but some time later their bodies were discovered near the Line of Control (LoC), which separates Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir - a fate which militants trying to cross the border often meet.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But during investigations, the police discovered that the men had been killed in a staged gun battle in a frontier area.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The probe also revealed that a senior officer of the Indian army - a major - had the three men kidnapped by offering them jobs as porters.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The troops later informed the police that they had killed three militants. The army also claimed to have found Pakistani currency and arms and ammunition on the three men.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The major has been suspended and another senior soldier transferred from his post. The army has pledged to &quot;co-operate&quot; with the police in investigations.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >So have 'fake encounter' killings - where the security forces are alleged to carry out extrajudicial killings - returned to Kashmir?</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Political leaders across the spectrum - pro-Indian, anti-Indian and government ministers - think so.</font></p><p align="justify"><font ><em>'Bogey of infiltration'<br /></em></font></p><p align="justify"><font >&quot;There are hardliners in the Indian Army and intelligence agencies, as there are in Pakistan, who think that by raising the bogey of infiltration and gun battles near the border they can create terror among people and also put pressure on Pakistan,&quot; says Mehbooba Mufti, prominent pro-India leader who heads the largest opposition party in the state.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Kashmir's law minister, Ali Mohammad Sagar says there have been &quot;several proven cases of fake encounters in the past 20 years&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Investigating the latest &quot;fake encounters&quot; of the three men from Nadihal village in Barramulla district, the police said that the army major had even been rewarded with &quot;a promotion and/or a cash reward&quot; for killing the men whom they described as &quot;militants&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But the army rejects this allegation, saying cash rewards for killing militants are a &quot;myth&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&quot;Awards are given for individual bravery of a soldier,&quot; says army spokesman Lt Col JS Brar.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The army says it has &quot;zero tolerance&quot; for human rights violations and soldiers found guilty are punished.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >It says more than 1,500 allegations of such violations reported to it had been investigated, and the overwhelming majority of them had &quot;been found to be false&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But reports of such &quot;fake encounters&quot; continue to surface from time to time in Kashmir.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Three years ago five bodies were exhumed in Ganderbal district as a probe into claims that police were fabricating clashes with militants as an excuse to carry out extrajudicial killings.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >They had been buried as foreign militants, but later turned out to be civilians.</font></p><p align="justify"><font ><em>Unnamed graves</em></font></p><p align="justify"><font >The district police chief and some other officers were arrested in connection with the incident.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Rights groups wonder why none of the army officers involved in the joint &quot;fake encounter&quot; with the police were arrested.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Also, human rights groups discovered nearly 3,000 unnamed graves in the Baramulla and Kupwara districts a couple of years ago.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Rights activist Khurram Pervez says 50 bodies buried in some of the graves were exhumed. And of the 47 which were identified, all but one were those of civilians.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Most of the people in Kashmir feel that such &quot;fake killings&quot; can be checked if the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is withdrawn.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The law gives the armed forces the powers of search and seizure. But more importantly, it gives them immunity against prosecution unless the Indian government accords prior sanction for such prosecution.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The law protects soldiers who may kill a civilian by mistake or in unavoidable circumstances during an operation against militants.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But many like leading lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom say that the law has been &quot;misused to kill innocent civilians&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Mr Qayoom says the Indian government has withheld sanction to prosecute a soldier even when it is known that he killed civilians &quot;arbitrarily&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&quot;This is proof that such killings are a policy of the government rather than an aberration on the part of an individual soldier,&quot; he says.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Political parties, including the governing National Conference, have repeatedly asked for the withdrawal of the law to make soldiers more accountable.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Mehbooba Mufti says the withdrawal of AFSPA has been recommended by a committee set up by the prime minister.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But there is still no indication that it may be withdrawn soon.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Till then, many in Kashmir believe, such &quot;fake encounters&quot; will keep happening.<br /></font></p>               </font>
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Investigating the latest &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; of the three men from Nadihal village in Barramulla district, the police said that the army major had even been rewarded with &amp;quot;a promotion and/or a cash reward&amp;quot; for killing the men whom they described as &amp;quot;militants&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But the army rejects this allegation, saying cash rewards for killing militants are a &amp;quot;myth&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Awards are given for individual bravery of a soldier,&amp;quot; says army spokesman Lt Col JS Brar.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The army says it has &amp;quot;zero tolerance&amp;quot; for human rights violations and soldiers found guilty are punished.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;It says more than 1,500 allegations of such violations reported to it had been investigated, and the overwhelming majority of them had &amp;quot;been found to be false&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But reports of such &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; continue to surface from time to time in Kashmir.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Three years ago five bodies were exhumed in Ganderbal district as a probe into claims that police were fabricating clashes with militants as an excuse to carry out extrajudicial killings.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;They had been buried as foreign militants, but later turned out to be civilians.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unnamed graves&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The district police chief and some other officers were arrested in connection with the incident.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Rights groups wonder why none of the army officers involved in the joint &amp;quot;fake encounter&amp;quot; with the police were arrested.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Also, human rights groups discovered nearly 3,000 unnamed graves in the Baramulla and Kupwara districts a couple of years ago.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Rights activist Khurram Pervez says 50 bodies buried in some of the graves were exhumed. And of the 47 which were identified, all but one were those of civilians.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Most of the people in Kashmir feel that such &amp;quot;fake killings&amp;quot; can be checked if the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is withdrawn.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The law gives the armed forces the powers of search and seizure. But more importantly, it gives them immunity against prosecution unless the Indian government accords prior sanction for such prosecution.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The law protects soldiers who may kill a civilian by mistake or in unavoidable circumstances during an operation against militants.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But many like leading lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom say that the law has been &amp;quot;misused to kill innocent civilians&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Mr Qayoom says the Indian government has withheld sanction to prosecute a soldier even when it is known that he killed civilians &amp;quot;arbitrarily&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;This is proof that such killings are a policy of the government rather than an aberration on the part of an individual soldier,&amp;quot; he says.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Political parties, including the governing National Conference, have repeatedly asked for the withdrawal of the law to make soldiers more accountable.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Mehbooba Mufti says the withdrawal of AFSPA has been recommended by a committee set up by the prime minister.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But there is still no indication that it may be withdrawn soon.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Till then, many in Kashmir believe, such &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; will keep happening.&lt;br /&gt;
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Three men went missing in Indian-administered Kashmir in April.


Nothing extraordinary about that, but some time later their bodies were discovered near the Line of Control (LoC), which separates Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir - a fate which militants trying to cross...&#039;,
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Three men went missing in Indian-administered Kashmir in April.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Nothing extraordinary about that, but some time later their bodies were discovered near the Line of Control (LoC), which separates Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir - a fate which militants trying to cross the border often meet.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But during investigations, the police discovered that the men had been killed in a staged gun battle in a frontier area.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The probe also revealed that a senior officer of the Indian army - a major - had the three men kidnapped by offering them jobs as porters.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The troops later informed the police that they had killed three militants. The army also claimed to have found Pakistani currency and arms and ammunition on the three men.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The major has been suspended and another senior soldier transferred from his post. The army has pledged to &amp;quot;co-operate&amp;quot; with the police in investigations.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;So have &#039;fake encounter&#039; killings - where the security forces are alleged to carry out extrajudicial killings - returned to Kashmir?&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Political leaders across the spectrum - pro-Indian, anti-Indian and government ministers - think so.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&#039;Bogey of infiltration&#039;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;There are hardliners in the Indian Army and intelligence agencies, as there are in Pakistan, who think that by raising the bogey of infiltration and gun battles near the border they can create terror among people and also put pressure on Pakistan,&amp;quot; says Mehbooba Mufti, prominent pro-India leader who heads the largest opposition party in the state.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Kashmir&#039;s law minister, Ali Mohammad Sagar says there have been &amp;quot;several proven cases of fake encounters in the past 20 years&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Investigating the latest &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; of the three men from Nadihal village in Barramulla district, the police said that the army major had even been rewarded with &amp;quot;a promotion and/or a cash reward&amp;quot; for killing the men whom they described as &amp;quot;militants&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But the army rejects this allegation, saying cash rewards for killing militants are a &amp;quot;myth&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Awards are given for individual bravery of a soldier,&amp;quot; says army spokesman Lt Col JS Brar.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The army says it has &amp;quot;zero tolerance&amp;quot; for human rights violations and soldiers found guilty are punished.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;It says more than 1,500 allegations of such violations reported to it had been investigated, and the overwhelming majority of them had &amp;quot;been found to be false&amp;quot;.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;But reports of such &amp;quot;fake encounters&amp;quot; continue to surface from time to time in Kashmir.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Three years ago five bodies were exhumed in Ganderbal district as a probe into claims that police were fabricating clashes with militants as an excuse to carry out extrajudicial killings.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;They had been buried as foreign militants, but later turned out to be civilians.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Unnamed graves&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;The district police chief and some other officers were arrested in connection with the incident.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Rights groups wonder why none of the army officers involved in the joint &amp;quot;fake encounter&amp;quot; with the police were arrested.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Also, human rights groups discovered nearly 3,000 unnamed graves in the Baramulla and Kupwara districts a couple of years ago.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Rights activist Khurram Pervez says 50 bodies buried in some of the graves were exhumed. And of the 47 which were identified, all but one were those of civilians.&lt;/font&gt;
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&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot; size=&quot;3&quot;&gt;Most of the people in Kashmir feel that such &amp;quot;fake killings&amp;quot; can be checked if the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is withdrawn.&lt;/font&gt;
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                <p align="justify"><font ></font></p><p align="justify"><font >Three men went missing in Indian-administered Kashmir in April.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Nothing extraordinary about that, but some time later their bodies were discovered near the Line of Control (LoC), which separates Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir - a fate which militants trying to cross the border often meet.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But during investigations, the police discovered that the men had been killed in a staged gun battle in a frontier area.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The probe also revealed that a senior officer of the Indian army - a major - had the three men kidnapped by offering them jobs as porters.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The troops later informed the police that they had killed three militants. The army also claimed to have found Pakistani currency and arms and ammunition on the three men.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The major has been suspended and another senior soldier transferred from his post. The army has pledged to &quot;co-operate&quot; with the police in investigations.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >So have 'fake encounter' killings - where the security forces are alleged to carry out extrajudicial killings - returned to Kashmir?</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Political leaders across the spectrum - pro-Indian, anti-Indian and government ministers - think so.</font></p><p align="justify"><font ><em>'Bogey of infiltration'<br /></em></font></p><p align="justify"><font >&quot;There are hardliners in the Indian Army and intelligence agencies, as there are in Pakistan, who think that by raising the bogey of infiltration and gun battles near the border they can create terror among people and also put pressure on Pakistan,&quot; says Mehbooba Mufti, prominent pro-India leader who heads the largest opposition party in the state.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Kashmir's law minister, Ali Mohammad Sagar says there have been &quot;several proven cases of fake encounters in the past 20 years&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Investigating the latest &quot;fake encounters&quot; of the three men from Nadihal village in Barramulla district, the police said that the army major had even been rewarded with &quot;a promotion and/or a cash reward&quot; for killing the men whom they described as &quot;militants&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But the army rejects this allegation, saying cash rewards for killing militants are a &quot;myth&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&quot;Awards are given for individual bravery of a soldier,&quot; says army spokesman Lt Col JS Brar.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The army says it has &quot;zero tolerance&quot; for human rights violations and soldiers found guilty are punished.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >It says more than 1,500 allegations of such violations reported to it had been investigated, and the overwhelming majority of them had &quot;been found to be false&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But reports of such &quot;fake encounters&quot; continue to surface from time to time in Kashmir.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Three years ago five bodies were exhumed in Ganderbal district as a probe into claims that police were fabricating clashes with militants as an excuse to carry out extrajudicial killings.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >They had been buried as foreign militants, but later turned out to be civilians.</font></p><p align="justify"><font ><em>Unnamed graves</em></font></p><p align="justify"><font >The district police chief and some other officers were arrested in connection with the incident.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Rights groups wonder why none of the army officers involved in the joint &quot;fake encounter&quot; with the police were arrested.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Also, human rights groups discovered nearly 3,000 unnamed graves in the Baramulla and Kupwara districts a couple of years ago.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Rights activist Khurram Pervez says 50 bodies buried in some of the graves were exhumed. And of the 47 which were identified, all but one were those of civilians.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Most of the people in Kashmir feel that such &quot;fake killings&quot; can be checked if the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is withdrawn.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The law gives the armed forces the powers of search and seizure. But more importantly, it gives them immunity against prosecution unless the Indian government accords prior sanction for such prosecution.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >The law protects soldiers who may kill a civilian by mistake or in unavoidable circumstances during an operation against militants.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But many like leading lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom say that the law has been &quot;misused to kill innocent civilians&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Mr Qayoom says the Indian government has withheld sanction to prosecute a soldier even when it is known that he killed civilians &quot;arbitrarily&quot;.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >&quot;This is proof that such killings are a policy of the government rather than an aberration on the part of an individual soldier,&quot; he says.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Political parties, including the governing National Conference, have repeatedly asked for the withdrawal of the law to make soldiers more accountable.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Mehbooba Mufti says the withdrawal of AFSPA has been recommended by a committee set up by the prime minister.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >But there is still no indication that it may be withdrawn soon.</font></p><p align="justify"><font >Till then, many in Kashmir believe, such &quot;fake encounters&quot; will keep happening.<br /></font></p>               </font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Three men went missing in Indian-administered Kashmir in April.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Nothing extraordinary about that, but some time later their bodies were discovered near the Line of Control (LoC), which separates Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir - a fate which militants trying to cross the border often meet.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">But during investigations, the police discovered that the men had been killed in a staged gun battle in a frontier area.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The probe also revealed that a senior officer of the Indian army - a major - had the three men kidnapped by offering them jobs as porters.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The troops later informed the police that they had killed three militants. The army also claimed to have found Pakistani currency and arms and ammunition on the three men.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The major has been suspended and another senior soldier transferred from his post. The army has pledged to &quot;co-operate&quot; with the police in investigations.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">So have 'fake encounter' killings - where the security forces are alleged to carry out extrajudicial killings - returned to Kashmir?</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Political leaders across the spectrum - pro-Indian, anti-Indian and government ministers - think so.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><em>'Bogey of infiltration'<br />
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&quot;There are hardliners in the Indian Army and intelligence agencies, as there are in Pakistan, who think that by raising the bogey of infiltration and gun battles near the border they can create terror among people and also put pressure on Pakistan,&quot; says Mehbooba Mufti, prominent pro-India leader who heads the largest opposition party in the state.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Kashmir's law minister, Ali Mohammad Sagar says there have been &quot;several proven cases of fake encounters in the past 20 years&quot;.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Investigating the latest &quot;fake encounters&quot; of the three men from Nadihal village in Barramulla district, the police said that the army major had even been rewarded with &quot;a promotion and/or a cash reward&quot; for killing the men whom they described as &quot;militants&quot;.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">But the army rejects this allegation, saying cash rewards for killing militants are a &quot;myth&quot;.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&quot;Awards are given for individual bravery of a soldier,&quot; says army spokesman Lt Col JS Brar.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The army says it has &quot;zero tolerance&quot; for human rights violations and soldiers found guilty are punished.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">It says more than 1,500 allegations of such violations reported to it had been investigated, and the overwhelming majority of them had &quot;been found to be false&quot;.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">But reports of such &quot;fake encounters&quot; continue to surface from time to time in Kashmir.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Three years ago five bodies were exhumed in Ganderbal district as a probe into claims that police were fabricating clashes with militants as an excuse to carry out extrajudicial killings.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The district police chief and some other officers were arrested in connection with the incident.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Rights groups wonder why none of the army officers involved in the joint &quot;fake encounter&quot; with the police were arrested.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Also, human rights groups discovered nearly 3,000 unnamed graves in the Baramulla and Kupwara districts a couple of years ago.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Rights activist Khurram Pervez says 50 bodies buried in some of the graves were exhumed. And of the 47 which were identified, all but one were those of civilians.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Most of the people in Kashmir feel that such &quot;fake killings&quot; can be checked if the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is withdrawn.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The law gives the armed forces the powers of search and seizure. But more importantly, it gives them immunity against prosecution unless the Indian government accords prior sanction for such prosecution.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The law protects soldiers who may kill a civilian by mistake or in unavoidable circumstances during an operation against militants.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">But many like leading lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom say that the law has been &quot;misused to kill innocent civilians&quot;.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Mr Qayoom says the Indian government has withheld sanction to prosecute a soldier even when it is known that he killed civilians &quot;arbitrarily&quot;.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&quot;This is proof that such killings are a policy of the government rather than an aberration on the part of an individual soldier,&quot; he says.</font>
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<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Three men went missing in Indian-administered Kashmir in April.</font>
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<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Nothing extraordinary about that, but some time later their bodies were discovered near the Line of Control (LoC), which separates Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir - a fate which militants trying to cross the border often meet.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">But during investigations, the police discovered that the men had been killed in a staged gun battle in a frontier area.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The probe also revealed that a senior officer of the Indian army - a major - had the three men kidnapped by offering them jobs as porters.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The troops later informed the police that they had killed three militants. The army also claimed to have found Pakistani currency and arms and ammunition on the three men.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The major has been suspended and another senior soldier transferred from his post. The army has pledged to &quot;co-operate&quot; with the police in investigations.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">So have 'fake encounter' killings - where the security forces are alleged to carry out extrajudicial killings - returned to Kashmir?</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Political leaders across the spectrum - pro-Indian, anti-Indian and government ministers - think so.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><em>'Bogey of infiltration'<br />
</em></font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&quot;There are hardliners in the Indian Army and intelligence agencies, as there are in Pakistan, who think that by raising the bogey of infiltration and gun battles near the border they can create terror among people and also put pressure on Pakistan,&quot; says Mehbooba Mufti, prominent pro-India leader who heads the largest opposition party in the state.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Kashmir's law minister, Ali Mohammad Sagar says there have been &quot;several proven cases of fake encounters in the past 20 years&quot;.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Investigating the latest &quot;fake encounters&quot; of the three men from Nadihal village in Barramulla district, the police said that the army major had even been rewarded with &quot;a promotion and/or a cash reward&quot; for killing the men whom they described as &quot;militants&quot;.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">But the army rejects this allegation, saying cash rewards for killing militants are a &quot;myth&quot;.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&quot;Awards are given for individual bravery of a soldier,&quot; says army spokesman Lt Col JS Brar.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The army says it has &quot;zero tolerance&quot; for human rights violations and soldiers found guilty are punished.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">It says more than 1,500 allegations of such violations reported to it had been investigated, and the overwhelming majority of them had &quot;been found to be false&quot;.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">But reports of such &quot;fake encounters&quot; continue to surface from time to time in Kashmir.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Three years ago five bodies were exhumed in Ganderbal district as a probe into claims that police were fabricating clashes with militants as an excuse to carry out extrajudicial killings.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">They had been buried as foreign militants, but later turned out to be civilians.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3"><em>Unnamed graves</em></font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The district police chief and some other officers were arrested in connection with the incident.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Rights groups wonder why none of the army officers involved in the joint &quot;fake encounter&quot; with the police were arrested.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Also, human rights groups discovered nearly 3,000 unnamed graves in the Baramulla and Kupwara districts a couple of years ago.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Rights activist Khurram Pervez says 50 bodies buried in some of the graves were exhumed. And of the 47 which were identified, all but one were those of civilians.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Most of the people in Kashmir feel that such &quot;fake killings&quot; can be checked if the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is withdrawn.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The law gives the armed forces the powers of search and seizure. But more importantly, it gives them immunity against prosecution unless the Indian government accords prior sanction for such prosecution.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">The law protects soldiers who may kill a civilian by mistake or in unavoidable circumstances during an operation against militants.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">But many like leading lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom say that the law has been &quot;misused to kill innocent civilians&quot;.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Mr Qayoom says the Indian government has withheld sanction to prosecute a soldier even when it is known that he killed civilians &quot;arbitrarily&quot;.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">&quot;This is proof that such killings are a policy of the government rather than an aberration on the part of an individual soldier,&quot; he says.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Political parties, including the governing National Conference, have repeatedly asked for the withdrawal of the law to make soldiers more accountable.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Mehbooba Mufti says the withdrawal of AFSPA has been recommended by a committee set up by the prime minister.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">But there is still no indication that it may be withdrawn soon.</font>
</p>
<p align="justify">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="3">Till then, many in Kashmir believe, such &quot;fake encounters&quot; will keep happening.<br />
</font>
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'Fake killings' return to Kashmir by Altaf Hussain

Three men went missing in Indian-administered Kashmir in April. Nothing extraordinary about that, but some time later their bodies were discovered near the Line of Control (LoC), which separates Indian- and Pakistani-administered Kashmir - a fate which militants trying to cross the border often meet. But during investigations, the police discovered that the men had been killed in a staged gun battle in a frontier area. The probe also revealed that a senior officer of the Indian army - a major - had the three men kidnapped by offering them jobs as porters. The troops later informed the police that they had killed three militants. The army also claimed to have found Pakistani currency and arms and ammunition on the three men. The major has been suspended and another senior soldier transferred from his post. The army has pledged to "co-operate" with the police in investigations. So have 'fake encounter' killings - where the security forces are alleged to carry out extrajudicial killings - returned to Kashmir? Political leaders across the spectrum - pro-Indian, anti-Indian and government ministers - think so. 'Bogey of infiltration' "There are hardliners in the Indian Army and intelligence agencies, as there are in Pakistan, who think that by raising the bogey of infiltration and gun battles near the border they can create terror among people and also put pressure on Pakistan," says Mehbooba Mufti, prominent pro-India leader who heads the largest opposition party in the state. Kashmir's law minister, Ali Mohammad Sagar says there have been "several proven cases of fake encounters in the past 20 years". Investigating the latest "fake encounters" of the three men from Nadihal village in Barramulla district, the police said that the army major had even been rewarded with "a promotion and/or a cash reward" for killing the men whom they described as "militants". But the army rejects this allegation, saying cash rewards for killing militants are a "myth". "Awards are given for individual bravery of a soldier," says army spokesman Lt Col JS Brar. The army says it has "zero tolerance" for human rights violations and soldiers found guilty are punished. It says more than 1,500 allegations of such violations reported to it had been investigated, and the overwhelming majority of them had "been found to be false". But reports of such "fake encounters" continue to surface from time to time in Kashmir. Three years ago five bodies were exhumed in Ganderbal district as a probe into claims that police were fabricating clashes with militants as an excuse to carry out extrajudicial killings. They had been buried as foreign militants, but later turned out to be civilians. Unnamed graves The district police chief and some other officers were arrested in connection with the incident. Rights groups wonder why none of the army officers involved in the joint "fake encounter" with the police were arrested. Also, human rights groups discovered nearly 3,000 unnamed graves in the Baramulla and Kupwara districts a couple of years ago. Rights activist Khurram Pervez says 50 bodies buried in some of the graves were exhumed. And of the 47 which were identified, all but one were those of civilians. Most of the people in Kashmir feel that such "fake killings" can be checked if the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA) is withdrawn. The law gives the armed forces the powers of search and seizure. But more importantly, it gives them immunity against prosecution unless the Indian government accords prior sanction for such prosecution. The law protects soldiers who may kill a civilian by mistake or in unavoidable circumstances during an operation against militants. But many like leading lawyer Mian Abdul Qayoom say that the law has been "misused to kill innocent civilians". Mr Qayoom says the Indian government has withheld sanction to prosecute a soldier even when it is known that he killed civilians "arbitrarily". "This is proof that such killings are a policy of the government rather than an aberration on the part of an individual soldier," he says. Political parties, including the governing National Conference, have repeatedly asked for the withdrawal of the law to make soldiers more accountable. Mehbooba Mufti says the withdrawal of AFSPA has been recommended by a committee set up by the prime minister. But there is still no indication that it may be withdrawn soon. Till then, many in Kashmir believe, such "fake encounters" will keep happening.