PressTV | Video Reportage | May 24, 2013
In a fresh statement Amnesty International has called on Indian government to take practical and immediate measures in order to address the numerous instances of un-law full killings and excessive use of force by its security forces.
Despite the repeated recommendations Of UN Rapporteur to establish a “credible commission of inquiry” to look into instances of extrajudicial executions in India, New Delhi has turned a blind eye to the repeated calls of rights groups.
According to the Special Rapporteur most of the unlawful killings in India occur as a result of the excessive use of force by the security forces, attacks by various armed groups, and killings of vulnerable persons.
Director of south Asian human rights documentation centre Ravi Nair believes all these findings and recommendations by the rights groups are hardly of any importance unless serious actions are taken with regards to them.
AI believes impunity continues to remain the central problem in India and urged the government to remove obstacles to accountability, “especially the need for prior sanction of prosecutions of civil servants”.
Among other issues of concern for the special rapporteur in the country have been fake encounters or staged extrajudicial killings, repeal or amend Armed forces special powers act and also urged the government to remove all legal barriers for the criminal prosecution of members of the armed forces.
In Indian Administered Kashmir alone, 8 to 10 thousand young men are missing and over 7000 mass graves have been discovered since 2005, but New Delhi has taken no action to investigate them.
The Special Rapporteur has called on the Indian government to sign the two optional protocols of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Optional Protocol to Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and the two Optional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions. The question remains how long it will take India to take action remains to be seen.
Source: Presstv