{EOP}Amnesty International: 1224 fake encounters in India in 15 years{Shining India}

Human Rights watch, the Amnesty International has said that over thousand people were killed in 'faked encounters' in India between 1993 and 2008.

According AI's Annual Report 2011, "Recent data disclosed by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on people killed in clashes with the police between 1993 and 2008, showed that of the 2,560 deaths reported, 1,224 (deaths) occurred in “faked encounters” implying they were extra-judicial executions," adding, "By the end of the year, the NHRC had awarded compensation to the relatives of 16 victims," the report mentioned.

"Convictions of those responsible for extra-judicial executions were exceptionally rare and proceedings in such cases remained slow," AI said.

The Amnesty said, "Impunity for past violations in Kashmir, including the disappearance of thousands of people since 1989 during the armed conflict in Kashmir, continued."

Official inquiries into some of the violations made slow or little progress, the report reads.

"Between June and September, the police and security forces fired at protesters during pro-Independence protests demanding accountability for past violations in the Kashmir valley. More than 100 people, mostly youths, were killed and 800 others, including media workers, were injured," the report reads further.

According to the report, "An inquiry, instituted by the state authorities, covered 17 of the 100 deaths, despite demands by Amnesty International and other organizations for an independent, impartial and thorough investigation into all the deaths. The inquiry made little progress."

The authorities made widespread use of administrative detentions, detaining 322 people between January and September, the report concluded.

Source: The Nation