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Mainstream, VOL LVI No 40 New Delhi September 22, 2018

On Unmarked Graves in the Kashmir Valley

Tuesday 25 September 2018, by Humra Quraishi

MUSINGS

Last weekend one news report hit to such an extent that I read it more than once and it also dragged along a significant offshoot.

Well, first the news report of Mexican investigators finding a mass grave in the state of Veracruz that contained 166 human skulls. In fact, last March, there was a similar news report of Mexican investigators finding another mass grave in the state of Veracruz where 250 human heads were found buried.

And with this in the backdrop, I sat wondering what explanations we are coming out with, in the context of the unmarked graves found in the Kashmir Valley. It was almost a decade back, Dr Angana Chatterji, Professor of Anthropology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, and the co-convener of a rights watchdog