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Enforced Disappearances
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Monday, 10 March 2014
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Ten parents died
without having a glimpse of their loved ones
Srinagar: Amid rains and
chill, Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) staged a protest at
Pratap Park Srinagar on Monday. The association said that all but 10 parents
from past couple of years breathed their last without having a glimpse of their
loved ones who were subjected to enforced disappearance in the State of Jammu
and Kashmir.
The Association
said that Hussina Begam who passed away recently with the hope that she could
have a glimpse of his son, Anwar Shah, was picked up and subject to enforced
disappearance by the Indian Security forces on July 21, 2000 in Srinagar.
“At the time of
his disappearance he was working as a painter. Hussina Begum, along with the
half widow and daughter of his disappeared son, struggled for thirteen years to
know the whereabouts of his son before she passed away.”
“Mehtaba Begum of
Karihama, Kupwara met the similar fate. She passed away during her struggle to
know the whereabouts of her son, Mohammad Yaqub Khan, who was labor by
profession and was picked up by the 76 and 56 Battalion of Border Security
Forces in a crackdown at his native village on 14th October 1990 and was
subsequently subjected to enforced disappearance,” the Association said.
According to CNS,
APDP said that Ghulam Muhammad Bhat, father of Shabir Hussain Bhat, a resident
of Chattabal, Srinagar, passed away on 7th January this year. “Shabir was picked up by 21
Battalion Border Security Forces from Bemina, Srinagar. Another parent, Abdul
Ahad Sofi of Daribal, Naid Kadal, Srinagar have passed away in the year 2012.
His son, Bashir Ahmad Sofi, was picked up by the 61 Battalion of Border
Security Forces on 17th June 2003 from his home, in front of his family.”
“Misra Begum of
Boatman colony, Bemina also passed away during her struggle to know the
whereabouts of her son, Shabir Hussain Gassi, who was picked up by 6 Rashtriya
Rifles of the Indian Army from his home on 21st January 2000. Similarly,
Hameeda Parveen, mother of Abid Hussain Dar, died in the year 2012. Abid was a
student at the time of his arrest and subsequent disappearance by the army
personal of 15 JAKLI.
Zoona Begum,
mother of Imtiyaz Ahmad Wani of Rajbagh passed away in the 2011. Her son got
disappeared on 15th of May 1996 after he was picked up by BSF and STF from his
home. Imtiyaz was a government employee, working as Forester in J&K Forest
Department.”
Muhammad Jamal
Bhat of Kupwara passed away in the year 2012. His son Ghulam Hassan Bhat was
disappeared on 25th January 1992. Wali Mohammad of Hanjiwara, Baramulla also
died in his struggle to know the whereabouts of his disappeared son.”
APDP said that
Haleema Begum of Batamaloo, has recently joined the list of the parents who
died waiting for the justice. She passed away on 26 February 2013 without
realizing the wish to see her beloved son. The struggle she had started, to
know the whereabouts of her son, along with her husband has met a tragic end.
Her husband, Muhammmad Amin Shah, have already met the similar fate in their
struggle. Her son, Basharat Ahamad Shah, who was a student of Aligarh Muslim
University, was picked up by CRPF in Sopore on 12th October 1990 and subjected
to enforced disappearance.”
“The Association
of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) commiserates the death of all the
parents who have passes away in their struggle to know the whereabouts of their
loved ones and pledges to take their struggle to its logical end.
The Association
of Parents of Disappeared Persons strongly demands that the impunity being
provided to the Indian Security Forces, under the draconian law AFSPA, be
immediately revoked, besides making them accountable for all the gross human
rights violations they commit. The impunity, on one hand, gives free hand to
the Indian Security Forces to kill, Disappear, Torture and rape the innocent
people, and, on the other hand, the lack of accountability is used to suppress
the people and to deny justice to them, besides giving arduous lives and
agonizing death to the parents of the of victims of enforced disappearances.”
(CNS)
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