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Home / Posts tagged "APDP"

Blurred Hopes

Gender, Writings

APDP, enforced disappearances, Kashmir occupation, parveena ahangar

Arfat Shiekh Blurred Hope is a short film about women in the Indian occupied Kashmir who have lost their sons, husbands, and brothers through enforced disappearances between 1989 and 2006. I took the inspiration for the film from an organization known as the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) … Read more →

Kashmiri War Mothers Find Ways to Grieve

2015, Gender

APDP, Association of Parents of Disappeared, human rights abuse, iron lady of kashmir, kashmiri women, parveena ahangar

By Shazia Yousuf When I met Taja Begum in the winter of 2009, I could tell she was dying soon. Taja, 75, was skin and bones. Every time she spoke, her trembling hands went up to soothe her tired chest. She took little sips of hot water in between long … Read more →

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