Uri, Feberuary 06: The villagers of Baryan village in Uri refused to bury the bodies of the three militants who were killed by the government forces in Hajin on Thursday.
They told the police that given the past history of fake gunfights in which civilians have been killed and passed off as militants, they are not sure whether they have been burying civilians or militants.
An embarrassed government had since then been taking all ‘foreign militants’ to Baryan, which is literally an extension of the army garrison and about 2 km from the Line of Control.
However, when the three persons killed in Hajin, who were declared as Pakistani militants of Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit by the police, were brought for burial to their village, Baryan residents flatly refused to bury them.“We don’t know who are they, how can we believe they are militants…they can be civilians.
First, the police should clear who these persons are and let us the pictures of the bodies“They have been buried so many people in our graveyard…the only thing they tell us is that they are militants…this time we want to know who they are, else we will not let them bury an unknown person in our graveyard,” the villagers told the police team headed by station house officer of Bonyar police station. Later police team take the bodies to a forested area in Bonyar, 5-6 km downhill. Then according to SHO Boniyar locals buried the bodies themselves on a piece of land behind the government higher secondary school in Bonyar with full religious norms.
The people requested the police that militants should be buried in areas where they are killed so that if any person claims the body he does not have to travel to such a remote place.