Unidentified Graves And Disappeared Persons - Jammau And Kashmir

EDM number 2132 in 2007-08, proposed by Paul Rowen on 22/07/2008.
Categorised under the topics of Asia and Human rights.

That this House supports the resolution on unidentified graves and disappeared persons in Jammau and Kashmir tabled by Liz Lynne MEP in the European Parliament on 8th July; is concerned at the hundreds of unidentified graves which have been discovered since 2006 in Jammau and Kashmir, including at least 940 persons found in Uri district alone, and that the Srinagar based Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, whose report issued on 29th March 2008, indicates the existence of multiple graves close to the line of control with Pakistan for which it is prevented from investigating; notes that the estimates of persons having gone missing vary greatly between the associations of families of victims and the Indian central and state governments; is further concerned that human rights violations committed by the armed forces of India continue despite the Indian government's commitment in September 2005 not to tolerate human rights violations in Jammau and Kashmir; calls therefore on the Indian government to ensure independent and impartial investigations into all suspected sites of mass graves in Jammau and Kashmir; further calls on the Indian government to ratify and implement the UN Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance without reservation and to grant access to Jammau and Kashmir for the UN Special Rapporteurs on Torture, on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions and the UN working group on Enforced or Voluntary Disappearances; and asks the UK Government to raise these matters with the Indian government as a matter of urgency.

This motion has been signed by a total of 21 MPs.