The NHRC Cremations Case: A Reckoning Cut Short
The Supreme Court's 1996 reference promised an audit of the disappearances; a quarter century later the NHRC had compensated 1,500 families within the original sample and investigated no culpability. The reckoning was not defeated but formatted.
Read MoreThe Disappeared: Enforced Disappearances and the Illegal Cremations
No FIR, no custody, no body, only an entry in a cremation register reading unclaimed. How the machinery of disappearance worked in Punjab, what scale the samples indicate, and the families' vigil that has never ended.
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