![]() ![]() Operation Delego, an ongoing investigation that was launched in December 2009, targeted the 72 charged defendants and more than 500 additional individuals around the world for their participation in Dreamboard – a private, members-only, online bulletin board that was created and operated to promote pedophilia and encourage the sexual abuse of very young children, in an environment designed to avoid law enforcement detection. ![]() Attorney Stephanie Finley of the Western District of Louisiana. ![]() Immigration of Customs Enforcement (ICE) John Morton and U.S. Breuer of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Director of U.S. Attorney General Holder and Secretary Napolitano announced the charges with Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. "Attorney General Eric Holder and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano announced today the unsealing of three indictments and one complaint charging a total of 72 individuals for their participation in an international criminal network dedicated to the sexual abuse of children and the creation and dissemination of graphic images and videos of child sexual abuse throughout the world. Plus, we get some names!! Not many, but I'll take what I can get. Turns out that this is a spin off of a couple of other huge busts and a whole lot of time and work have gone into this. International human rights groups have also repeatedly asked the Indian authorities to investigate the unmarked graves.The DOJ press release. "We appeal to International human rights groups and Indian authorities to identify the people buried," said Parveena Ahanger, founder and chairperson of the APDP. The Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons ( APDP), which estimates around 10,000 people went missing during nearly two decades of separatist revolt, says many missing people may have ended up in these unmarked graves. Indian authorities have consistently denied systematic human rights violations in Kashmir and say they probe all such reports and punish the guilty. Indian security forces in Kashmir have been accused of murdering innocent civilians in staged gun battles and passing them off as separatist militants to earn rewards and promotions. On Saturday, Indian soldier shot dead 12 separatist militants trying to cross from Pakistan into the disputed region. Nearly 50,000 people have been killed in mainly Muslim Kashmir since a revolt against New Delhi's rule began in 1989. The report, released on Saturday, comes after a three-year inquiry by an 11-member team led by a senior police official. "At 38 places visited in north Kashmir, there were 2,156 unidentified dead bodies buried in unmarked graves," the inquiry report by the Indian government's Jammu and Kashmir State Human Rights Commission (J&KSHRC) said. The graves were found in dozens of villages near the Line of Control, the military line dividing Kashmir between India and Pakistan. ![]() NEW DELHI (Reuters) - More than 2,000 corpses have been found buried in several unmarked graves in Kashmir, believed to be victims of the divided region's separatist revolt, a government human rights commission said in a report. ![]()
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