{"id":8944,"date":"2019-09-12T21:05:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/sep\/12\/son-kashmir-disappeared-india-truth-fate-siege"},"modified":"2019-09-12T21:05:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T12:05:01","slug":"my-son-is-one-of-kashmirs-disappeared-when-will-india-tell-the-truth-about-their-fate-parveena-ahangar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8944","title":{"rendered":"My son is one of Kashmir\u2019s \u2018disappeared\u2019. When will India tell the truth about their fate? | Parveena Ahangar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kashmir is under siege. Up to 10,000 people have been victims of enforced disappearance, including my son Javaid<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/aug\/12\/our-hearts-are-on-fire-kashmir-spends-eid-al-adha-in-lockdown\" title=\"\">Eid this year<\/a> was like no other. We could not even offer the obligatory sacrifice because of the total <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/sep\/04\/civilians-killed-kashmir-crackdown-army-india\" title=\"\">siege by India of Kashmir<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When my son Yasir went to fetch bread in the morning and didn\u2019t return promptly, I started pacing with worry outside the house. What if the security forces manning every corner had roughed him up, or even worse? My fear is the fear of every single person living in shock in Kashmir and wondering \u201cWhat next?\u201d Eventually he returned, explaining that the delay was due to long queues at the only bakery open in the entire area. But unlike Yasir, my son Javaid has never returned.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2019\/sep\/12\/son-kashmir-disappeared-india-truth-fate-siege\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kashmir is under siege. Up to 10,000 people have been victims of enforced disappearance, including my son JavaidThe Eid this year was like no other. We could not even offer the obligatory sacrifice because of the total siege by India of Kashmir.When my&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53,62,432,86,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-rights","category-india","category-kashmir","category-law","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8945,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8944\/revisions\/8945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}