Published on, Aug. 30 -- August 30, 2025 1:09 AM

On 30 August, the world marks the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances. For Kashmiris, this is not an abstract observance but a day that cuts into their deepest wounds.

Since the 1990s, thousands of men and boys have been picked up by Indian forces and never returned. Families have waited for decades without answers. Mothers have grown old holding photographs of their sons, searching graveyards, knocking at court doors, only to be met with silence or intimidation. The disappearance itself is one crime; the endless suffering inflicted on families is another. Both are recognized in international jurisprudence as continuing violations of human rights.

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