SRINAGAR: When most parts of the world are observing Mother’s Day, today, thousands of
Kashmiri women continue to wait for the return of their sons killed in fake encounters or su
bjected to disappearance in custody by Indian troops in occupied
Kashmir over the past 28 years.
A report released by the Research Section of
Kashmir Media Service on Mother’s Day, today, said that the continued Indian state terrorism had resulted in the killing of over 90,000
Kashmiris including children since 1989.
It pointed out that the troops had su
bjected over 8,000
Kashmiris to custodial disappearance during the period and the mothers of majori
ty of these disappeared people had been waiting for their return.
Second Sunday of May is celebrated as Mother’s Day since 1914 as a result of continued efforts by Anna Jarvis, daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis, a pe
ace activist in, West Virginia, the United States, for her mother’s contributions towards the society.
