In Kashmir, Killing Ebbs, but Killers Roam Free
By GARDINER HARRIS June 25, 2012
Dar Yasin/Associated Press
Tensions have eased in the Kashmir region, but they are still just below the surface. Kashmiri Muslims retrieved relics after a fire at a shrine on Monday
BONIYAR, India — After decades of war, Kashmir is blooming again. Hotels are bursting, roads are being fixed and offices rebuilt. But with the guns silenced, India must soon decide whether justice will be as welcome as the tourists.
Mass murderers walk the streets openly, having killed thousands of people who are buried in unmarked graves in scores of secret cemeteries. This beautiful village has one such graveyard. Nine years after Indian police officers and troops deposited hundreds of bullet-ridden corpses here as part of their campaign to suppress an independence movement supported by Pakistan, dirt mounds still rise above the shallow and unmarked plots as if the circumstances of the deaths left the earth above the bodies unsettled.
