A death certificate is not enough for Kashmir’s enforced disappearance victims
Abdul Rashid Wani, a timber trader from Kashmir, vanished from Indian military custody in 1997. While a certificate of his death has finally been granted after 29 years, his family is still searching for answers about what happened to him. His son Junaid Rashid, who was five at the time of his father’s disappearance and is now 34, told Agence France-Presse (AFP): The government has now, after 29 years, acknowledged in court that such an atrocity was done. If this had happened earlier, I think Kashmir would look different. Our lives would look different, and my mother’s health would be something…

