Srinagar:The Jammu and Kashmir Police on Thursday foiled a sit-in protest by a separatist group against the human rights violations in Srinagar. The protest was organised
by separatist Jammu Kashmir salvation movement. Activists along with their chairman
Zaffar Akbar Bhat were staging protest at the Lal Chowk by holding placards with
messages of stopping human rights violations. Police swung into action and arrested
the chairman and also foiled their attempt to hold protest. Salvation movement
is the part of Hurriyat Conference (M) Mirwaiz Umar Farooq group. Security forces
in the troubled region have been accused of killing civilians in staged gun battles
and passing them off as separatist militants to earn rewards and promotions. Earlier
this month, a human rights group in Kashmir said it had discovered some 1,700
unmarked graves linked to the region's separatist conflict and called on authorities
to launch an investigation. Last year, the same rights group said they had discovered
nearly 1,000 unmarked graves in 18 villages in the same area.
