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Mass Executions in Kashmir and DNA Imagine reading on the front page of your favourite newspaper or watching on your favourite TV newscast that thousands of bodies have been discovered in mass graves in a country -- the result of extrajudicial killings -- imagine the hue and cry in the Canadian Parliament -- imagine the outrage and condemnation -- headlines would continue for days -- well, we did live through a similar scenario just recently -- Omar Abdullah, the chief minister of the Indian state of Kashmir, announced that DNA testing will be carried out on hundreds of bodies found in mass graves -- human rights activists say thousands of people, suspected by Indian security forces of either being militants or having links to such groups demanding independence for India #39;s Muslim majority state of Kashmir, were summarily detained and killed -- Across the valley, more than 8000 relatives live in enduring uncertainty, hoping that missing relatives may one day come home alive -- while on the one hand, this DNA testing decision is a testament to India #39;s democracy, on the other hand this democratic response has been rather slow and reluctant and condemnation from the champions of democracy in the western world non-existent -- the disappearances have been documented for years in well-known magazines and in books such as Pankaj Mishra #39;s Temptations of the West -- Booker prize-winning author Arundhati Roy never stops talking about the disappearances of Kashmir #39;s young men -- but ...From:Zuhair KashmeriViews:1 0ratingsTime:01:59More inNews Politics

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