NEW DELHI: The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has held the Border Security Force (BSF) responsible for firing live ammunition on an unarmed crowd at Bijbehera in Kashmir and has recommended that the discipline are action initiated against deputy commandant and 14 other ranks should be pursued to its logical conclusion.
The commission has also asked the center to undertake a thorough review of the circumstances and conditions in which units of the BSF are deployed and expected to operate in situations involving only civilian population.
The commission said that on the basis of evidence collected in the inquiry under the BSF act, it
Shows that a sizeable group of local residents gathered after Friday prayers at the juma masjid and moved from there to the national highway, where they were accosted by a unit of the BSF comprising 47 personal.
I said the evidence provided to the Staff Court of Inquiry by those who were in the procession states that there were no armed militants in the crowd, the members of which were shouting political slogans and slogans against the siege of Hazratbal shrine by the defense forces.
The witnesses stated that the armed, and that the firing by the BSF on the crowd wis without warning. The report Said.
Article extracted from this publication >> April 29, 1994
