To: Dr. Christof Heyns
Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
From: International People's Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir (IPTK)
Dr. Angana Chatterji
Co-convener
+1.415.640.4013 (mobile)
mail [at] anganachatterji [dot] net
Advocate Parvez Imroz
Co-convener
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Mr. Zahir-Ud-Din
Co-convener
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Mr. Khurram Parvez
Liaison
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Re.: UN Special Rapporteur on Summary Executions mission to India/With respect to Kashmir
Dear Dr. Heyns,
Following our initial submission made of March 18, 2012, today, we would like to further submit:
1. Paper copy of our submission of today, March 26, 2012.
Includes a note on Reprisal, Description of IPTK, and Biographical Briefs. [Below, enclosed.]
2. Paper copy of our initial submission of March 18, 2012.
We sent in this initial submission, as only Parvez Imroz, Zahir-Ud-Din, and Khurram Parvez were available to meet with you and your team on March 26, as Angana Chatterji is not here at this time. As well, we wanted to place an initial submission on record.
3. Reports and Briefs from IPTK, and Dossiers of Information (collected by various sources as listed):
- Buried Evidence: Report on unknown, unmarked, and certain mass graves.
- Two notes on the corroboration of information in IPTK’s report, Buried Evidence, by the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission.
- Killing of Civilians in Summer 2010: UN Allegation.
- Fake Encounter Killings in April 2010: A Report.
- Sexualized Violence and Murder in Shopian in May 2009: A Report.
- Killing of Civilians in Summer 2008: UN Allegation.
- Dossier I on Enforced Disappearances and Extrajudicial Killings: 1990-2012 (March):
We submit this dossier of information that is based on primary, secondary, and preliminary data collection. We request that the information be verified by credible and independent sources with due diligence and that action be taken based on the outcome.
- Information on Enforced Disappearances and Extrajudicial Killings between 1990-2012 (March):
- Enforced Disappearances: 132 Cases from 1990 to 2008 in Ramban district.
- Custodial Killings: 408 Cases from 1989 to 2006 in Baramulla district.
- Custodial and Fake-encounter Killings: 176 Cases from 2003 to 2007 from Jammu and Kashmir.
- Enforced Disappearances: 389 Cases from 1989 to 2006 in Baramulla district.
- Extrajudicial Executions: 235 Cases from 2008 to March 25, 2012 from Jammu and Kashmir.
- Probes Ordered by the Government into Extrajudicial/Custodial Killings.
- Dossier II:
We submit this dossier of information that is based on primary, secondary, and preliminary data collection. We request that the information be verified by credible and independent sources with due diligence and that action be taken based on the outcome.
- List of Unmarked Graves from Poonch and Rajouri districts.
- Note to the Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission from IPTK in September 2011.
- List from Jammu and Kashmir Police of Foreign Militants Killed between 1998-2010 (April).
- Dossier III: Three cases pertaining to extrajudicial executions.
- Dossier IV: Documents from the Government of India and the Government of Jammu and Kashmir regarding Prosecution Sanctions under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act between 1990 and 2012 (March).
4. Additional reports:
- Half Widow, Half Wife by Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons.
- Peace and Processes of Violence by Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society.
- Human Rights Review: Jammu and Kashmir, 2011 by Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society.
- Dead But Not Forgotten by Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society.
We respectfully submit the following on behalf of Angana Chatterji, Parvez Imroz, Zahir-Ud-Din, and Khurram Parvez. We collectively instituted the International People’s Tribunal on Human Rights and Justice in Kashmir (IPTK) in April 2008 (www.kashmirprocess.org). Enclosed, in this document, please find a description of IPTK and brief bios.
Sincerely yours,
Angana Chatterji, Parvez Imroz, Zahir-Ud-Din, Khurram Parvez
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