Srinagar, Mar 28: There are almost 1000 nameless graves in frontier areas of Uri in Varmul district, reveals a report by Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP). The report %u201CFacts Under Ground; a fact finding mission on nameless graves and mass graves in Uri area%u201D was released here on Friday by the APDP members. %u201CThe APDP believes the nameless graves are of among thousands of Kashmiris who were subjected to custodial disappearance during past 18 years,%u201D the report mentions. %u201CWe (APDP) have been able to find 940 to 1000 graves in many villages of Uri during the two-year long survey. And according to the locals most of the buried persons labeled as foreign militants by troops and policemen were later found to be the Kashmiris,%u201D the report mentions. According to the APDP members the survey was completed in various phases. During the first phase the APDP team visited Zandfaran, Kichama, Budmulla and Fatehgarh villages. In Zandfaran, six kilometers west to Varmul, six nameless graves were found. In Fatehgarh, the APDP team found four nameless graves. In martyr%u2019s graveyard of Kichama around 235 graves of unidentified persons were found. %u201CWe have buried 250 unnamed dead bodies in Kichama graveyard, 10 of them were locals. The locals were killed in different encounters with troops and later labeled as foreign militants,%u201D the report mentions, quoting locals. Quoting Muhammad Yousf Malik, block president of National
