Srinagar, Mar 10: (KONS) Gathering for the umpteenth time to shake an immovable government into action, the relatives of Kashmir’s numerous disappeared held their monthly demonstration here on Monday to demand the whereabouts of their missing loved ones.
Organized by the Association of the Parents of the Disappeared Persons (APDP), the cruelly mutilated families demanded a commission to be set up to determine the fate of their dear ones.
Carrying placards the portraits of their missing sons, husbands and fathers, and placards denouncing custodial disappearances, the protestors alleged that security agencies had conspired to stage the recovery drama of one Abdul Majid Dar who claimed to have disappeared at the age of eight from the TRC.
“A high-level inquiry should be ordered to unravel the conspiracy behind this fraud and unmask the hands involved,” the protestors, led by APDP chief, Parveena Ahangar, said, urging the state police chief to personally supervise the investigation.
The demonstrators which included a number of elderly women said that years had passed since their loved ones were subjected to enforced disappearances, but the government had taken no steps to determine their whereabouts or their fate till date.
‘Leave alone the government, no leader has come forward to help us in our quest,” the protestors said, adding that they spent their days weeping for their missing kin.