In vast majority of cases of Enforced or Involuntary Dissapearenaces (EID), people were detained during cordon and search operations locally called crackdowns. Some persons arrested were only male members of their families. The Army, Special Operations Group (SOG) and Government-sponsored gunmen working with Army have also been abducting people whose whereabouts remain unknown to this day. There are cases where non-combatant Kashmiris after detention have been killed in fake encounters at different places and then labeled as foreign militants.

We met people claimed to have seen dead bodies being thrown into River Jehlum. In many cases police were informed about it but to no avail. Some of the dead bodies resurfaced when they got stuck on the river shore and were retrieved by the people who buried them in their village graveyards in order to avoid the desecration of dead bodies. We also met witnesses who have seen the Army, with the help of police, burying the dead in different graveyards.

In view of the callous indifference displayed by the Government of India and the Government of Jammu and Kashmir on this matter of great concern we believe that time has come to turn to the international fora. Considering also that EAAF (Argentine forensic anthropology) and CMP (International Commission on Missing Persons) have the necessary skills and expertise to carry out a scientific excavation and establish the truth or otherwise of the claim being made by us and because friends and families of the disappeared have the right to know what happened to their near and dear ones, we therefore impress upon EAAF and ICMP to consider our request to take up this investigation.