VOA常速英语2008年-Kashmir Rights Groups Demands Probe of Unidenti

By Shahnawaz Khan
Srinagar
01 April 2008

A human rights group in Indian administered Kashmir says it has located as many as 1,000 unidentified graves across a frontier district in the region. The group says it suspects that the graves may hold the bodies of people who may have been killed by state security agencies during a two-decade-old islamic insurgency¹.  Shahnawaz Khan reports from Srinagar, in Indian administered Kashmir, on the allegations.

Researchers from the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons, or APDP, say they found the graves around the town of Uri, near the border that separates Indian and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir.

The human rights group released its findings in a 23-page report last week titled "Facts Underground."
 
The report is based on accounts by villagers in the region. It was compiled over a period of two years and contains a list of as many as 1,000 nameless graves located in the towns of Boniyar, Uri and Baramulla, in north Kashmir.

APDP says at least 8,000 people have disappeared during the nearly two-decade-old Muslim separatist insurgency in the Kashmir region.

Pervez Imroz, a spokesman for the group, says most of them went missing after being picked up, allegedly, by Indian security agencies.

"We are fearing that people disappeared in the south or east of west, then they are killed and dumped in these areas, and dumped as foreign militants³," Imroz said. "This report is an indication of how many mass graves or unidentified graves are in other areas of Kashmir where there are army camps."

Human rights workers have complained for years that innocent people have been killed by government troops in staged gunbattles or arrested as suspected rebels.

Lieutenant⁴ Colonel A.K. Mathur, is a spokesman for the Indian army in Srinagar,  the summer capital of Indian administered Kashmir.  He dismissed the allegations, saying they are intended to malign⁵ the army.

"The army has nothing to do with the burial of people," he said.  "Any militant² we kill on the line of control we hand over to police for identification and cremation⁶. (The) army has nothing to say about these graves."

The Indian government says most of the people who disappeared are Kashmiri youths who crossed into neighboring Pakistan for weapons training.

But the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons says that in the majority of cases of people who have disappeared were detained during crackdowns.

Pervez Imroz, a spokesman for the group, says the number of graves and the accounts of local villagers makes a strong case for an investigation⁷.

"We are saying let there be a probe," Imroz said. "Since the last 10 years the APDP has been telling the government to probe the disappearances⁸, as has been done in other countries. Like in Latin American countries or in Nepal, they are holding a probe. So now at least through this report we are challenging the government to hold a probe into these graves. Who they are, whose graves they are. Let them identify."

Last year Indian authorities charged seven policemen with murdering five civilians⁹ in staged gunbattles and trying to pass them off as foreign militants to claim rewards and promotions¹⁰.

The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons lists 38 cases in its report where exhumation¹¹ has belied¹² police claims.

1 insurgency   

n.起义；暴动；叛变

参考例句：

• And as in China, unrest and even insurgency are widespread. 而在中国，动乱甚至暴乱都普遍存在。 来自互联网
• Dr Zyphur is part an insurgency against this idea. 塞弗博士是这一观点逆流的一部分。 来自互联网

2 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

3 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

4 lieutenant   

n.陆军中尉，海军上尉；代理官员，副职官员

参考例句：

• He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
• He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官，递上了一张简短的便条进去。

5 malign   

adj.有害的；恶性的；恶意的；v.诽谤，诬蔑

参考例句：

• It was easy to see why the cartoonists regularly portrayed him as a malign cherub.难怪漫画家总是把他画成一个邪恶的小天使。
• She likes to malign innocent persons.她爱诋毁那些清白的人。

6 cremation   

n.火葬，火化

参考例句：

• Cremation is more common than burial in some countries. 在一些国家，火葬比土葬普遍。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Garbage cremation can greatly reduce the occupancy of land. 垃圾焚烧可以大大减少占用土地。 来自互联网

7 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

8 disappearances   

n.消失( disappearance的名词复数 )；丢失；失踪；失踪案

参考例句：

• Most disappearances are the result of the terrorist activity. 大多数的失踪案都是恐怖分子造成的。 来自辞典例句
• The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease. 间谍活动、叛党卖国、逮捕拷打、处决灭迹，这种事情永远不会完。 来自英汉文学

9 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
• At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。

10 promotions   

促进( promotion的名词复数 )； 提升； 推广； 宣传

参考例句：

• All services or promotions must have an appeal and wide application. 所有服务或促销工作都必须具有吸引力和广泛的适用性。
• He promptly directed the highest promotions and decorations for General MacArthur. 他授予麦克阿瑟将军以最高的官阶和勋奖。

11 exhumation   

n.掘尸，发掘；剥璐

参考例句：

• The German allowed a forensic commission including prominent neutral experts to supervise part of the exhumation. 德国人让一个包括杰出的中立专家在内的法庭委员会对部分掘墓工作进行监督。 来自辞典例句
• At any rate, the exhumation was repeated once and again. 无论如何，他曾经把尸体挖出来又埋进去，埋进去又挖出来。 来自互联网

12 belied   

v.掩饰( belie的过去式和过去分词 )；证明（或显示）…为虚假；辜负；就…扯谎

参考例句：

• His bluff exterior belied a connoisseur of antiques. 他作风粗放，令人看不出他是古董鉴赏家。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Her smile belied her true feelings. 她的微笑掩饰了她的真实感情。 来自《简明英汉词典》