Decades of denial: Death certificate for disappeared reopens Kashmir wounds
- Junaid Rashid was five when his father vanished from military custody nearly three decades ago, one of the thousands who disappeared during the armed rebellion in India-administered Kashmir.
- But after years of the family searching for him and fighting court battles, a judge in the contested Himalayan territory declared in April what Rashid already believed: His father, Abdul Rashid Wani, was dead.
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- Junaid Rashid was five when his father vanished from military custody nearly three decades ago, one of the thousands who disappeared during the armed rebellion in India-administered Kashmir.
- But after years of the family searching for him and fighting court battles, a judge in the contested Himalayan territory declared in April what Rashid already believed: His father, Abdul Rashid Wani, was dead.
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Sources: Al Jazeera