LibGuides: Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances: India

India

The APDP estimates that 8,000- 10,000 people are missing from the Jammu and Kashmir regions alone.

Find more information on India's enforced disappearances and human rights:

Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons The APDP website is operated by a collective of relatives of victims of enforced and involuntary disappearances in Kashmir, India. The APDP was formed in 1994 to organize efforts to seek justice and get information on the whereabouts of missing family members.
HRDAG: Violent Deaths and Enforced Disappearances During the Counterinsurgency in Punjab, India [Report] Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) analyzes reported fatal violence across Punjab during a period of conflict from 1984 to 1995 using systematic and verifiable quantitative research to interrogate the Indian government’s portrayal of the Punjab counterinsurgency as a successful campaign with isolated human rights violations. Published January 2009.
HRW: "Everyone Lives in Fear" Patterns of Impunity in Jammu and Kashmir (2006) HRW published this 2006 report to document serious abuses, especially the targeting of civilians, by both government forces and militants in Jammu and Kashmir. See page 91 for information specific to disappearances.
Human Rights Abuses in Jammu and Kashmir - Wikipedia
The Right to a Remedy for Enforced Disappearances in India: A Legal Analysis of International and Domestic Law Relating to Victims of Enforced Disappearances This International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC) report analyzes the international legal framework regarding India’s obligations to ensure the right to a remedy for enforced disappearances and other gross human rights violations.

South Asians For Human Rights reports on India's enforced disappearances.

Babloo Loitongbam, the Executive Director of Human Rights Alert in Manipur, discusses the Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958, its inception, purpose and its present implementation which has extended beyond the original geographical objective and is now being utilized to suppress the human rights of people in the Jammu and Kashmir region.

Vrinda Grover, a human rights lawyer of New Delhi, speaks of the estimated 8,000- 10,000 people who have been disappeared by Indian state forces, groups sponsored by the Indian state and para military forces in the Jammu and Kashmir region.