Amnesty international and Human Rights Watch has urged the Indian government to launch an impartial investigation into hundred of mass graves discovered in different parts of Kashmir. These unmarked graves are thought to contain the remains of missing Kashmiries. The Amnesty report alleges that more than 8,000 persons have gone missing in Jammu and Kashmir since 1989. Unlawful killings, enforced disappearances and torture are violations of both international human rights law and international humanitarian law, set out in treaties to which India is a signatory. Amnesty International has also urged the Indian government to condemn enforced disappearances in Jammu and Kashmir and ensure thorough, independent and impartial investigations into all sites of mass graves in the region. It is worth pointing out that South Asia director at Human Rights Watch, has said that the Indian government has long been well aware that extrajudicial killings and disappearances have occurred in Kashmir, but it has looked the other way. She further said that the discovery of unidentified bodies will make it impossible to continue the long cover-up of the facts and to deny justice to the families of victims. Human Rights Watch also urged the immediate repeal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA), a draconian law that grants the military widespread powers to arrest people without warrant and to shoot to kill. This law has enabled security forces to engage in crimes such as enforced disappearances. It protects military personnel responsible for serious crimes from prosecution. Even some senior government and judicial figures believe that the AFSPA leads to abuses and offends human rights principles. The Indian government was deceiving the grieved families by telling them that their missing beloved had gone to Pakistan to join militants groups. But the disclosure of unmarked graves has now revealed that the missing Kashmiries were killed by Indian security forces. According to Hurriat leaders 80,000 Kashmiries have been martyred during the last twenty years of freedom struggle. India admits the killing of 68000 Kashmiries officially but never admits the extrajudicial killings of innocent citizens of Kashmir by its security forces. By considering these findings one can easily conclude that Indian forces are busy in genocide of the Kashmiri people which is an open violation of Geneva Convention and human right declarations. In the light of these international human rights laws Indian PM, army chief and all the concerned officials are war criminals. International court of Justice at Hague should release arrest warrant of these Indian officials like Sudanese President Omer al-Basher. But we know very well this demand is not more than a joke for international forums and it is understandable because all the Muslim countries are keeping guilty silence on the issue of Kashmir. Pakistan is the only country who understand the sensitivity of this issue and thats why it has kept the Kashmir issue alive by pointing out the continuing human rights violations of Indian security forces in Kashmir. MUHAMMAD FAISAL SULHERIA, Lahore, September 14.