APDP Press Release, October 2007

-- By Parveena Ahangar, President APDP

APDP workshop on enforced disappearances, 30 August 2007

Living a Half-Life While Waiting for Those Lost - By Emily Wax, Washington Post, 14 July 2007

by Parveena Ahangar

Parveena is a Kashmiri mother who lost her son who was arrested by the security forces after mistaking him for a militant. Since then, she has assisted fellow victims like her, and one of those who established the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP). A paragon of courage, she mobilizes other families of the disappeared in Kashmir to fearlessly work against impunity | Full article

-- By Uma Chakravarti, April 2007

The new year has uncovered a chilling account of the ‘disappearing’ of the bodies of those killed in fake encounters by the police in Kashmir. The facts make for a bizarre narrative of deliberate acts of murdering ordinary people, dumping their bodies and then mercenarily using these bodies. | Full article

Recorded by Shubh Mathur, March 2007 | Full article


It is an undisputed fact that the large number of army and paramilitary camps have turned J&K into a large prison for Kashmiris. The concrete bunkers of the security forces at every nook and corner across the valley tell the story of the present situation in Kashmir. More than half a million armed and paramilitary forces are controlling nine million people. | Full article