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Early Times report
Jammu, Apr 10: “If my son is alive allow me to meet him. If he is dead tell me so that I settle down to my normal routine.” This emotional statement was made by a tearful mother at Partap Park Srinagar during Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) monthly meeting Saturday.
Taja, a widow from Maisuma carrying her disappeared son’s photograph in her trembling hands expressed dismay over contradictory figures furnished by the government on disappearances in Kashmir. “Instead of issuing contradictory statements, the government should have come out with a statement declaring all the missing persons dead”, she lamented.
“We have been subjected to perpetual trauma by the authorities. For me search for my disappeared son has not ended even after twenty years. I do not know what to do”, she said a group of news persons.
The APDP has urged the government in the past to declare all disappeared persons dead. According to a spokesman of the APDP, declaring the disappeared persons dead would relieve their aggrieved relatives of the trauma they have been undergoing for years together.
Taja’s son, Aijaz Ahmad Dar went missing in 1990 while he was on his way to his denting shop at Dalgate. Since then his whereabouts could not be ascertained. The aggrieved mother does not know the exact date of her son’s disappearance. “Same day militants and troopers exchanged fire near Dalgate”, she recalled.
Taja lives in a dingy rented hut at Maisuma and has two daughters to look after. She urged the Chief Minister to provide succor to her.
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