“Saja Begum’s sons Ghulam Mohiuddin, 30, and Abdul Rashid, 27, disappeared after Indian soldiers picked them up during a crackdown in May 1991. While trying to prevent the soldiers from arresting her sons, she was fired upon from close range and was hit by a bullet in her thigh. She searched for her sons in jails and torture centers but could not find them, she told the photographer. In 1992, she lost another son, Ghulam Hassan Lone, who was killed by Indian forces.”
“A woman sitting beside the grave of her younger brother, who was killed by Indian forces in 2008. Her older brother Javaid Iqbal disappeared in 1990. The family searched for him, but he could not be traced.”
“Fahmeeda has spent 15 years waiting for her husband, Mushtaq Ahmad Sheikh, who was picked up by Indian Army on Sept. 3, 2001. For seven months she looked for him in different prisons, camps and torture centers. ”
“Hussain Bibi lives with her children in Zamoor Pattan village near the Line of Control that divides Indian- and Pakistani-administered parts of Kashmir. Her husband, Ahmad Hussain Shah, and son, Nazir Hussain, were picked up from their home by the Jammu and Kashmir Rifles regiment of the Indian Army on Aug. 15, 1997.”
“Haleema travels in a neighbor’s car to a sit-in organized by the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons. Haleema’s husband, Abdul Rashid Ganaie, was arrested in January 1998. For three years she left her home and searched for her husband.”
“Shaista walks through the land that once belonged to her father but has been taken by her uncles. “I will fight for it till I get it,” she told the photographer.”
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[Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons.]