This page has been made in solidarity with the J&K Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP)
The Following is a radio play that aired on a National Public Radio affiliate FM Station KPFK 90.7 from Los Angeles, USA on Feb. 14, 2004.
Listen and learn about the plight of the valiant Kashmiri mothers who continue their unending search for truth and struggle for justice against all odds.
"Habba's Letter"
written by S A Zia
Executive Producer by Debo Kotun
Directed by Mitchell Dahood
Technical Director: Mark Torres
Episode XIV of "The Courtyard"
Created by Debo Kotun
A weekly one-hour radio "Dramedy" set under a gazebo in a courtyard of a verdant residential complex comprising several bungalow-styled cottages in California.
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The Indian government has continued to perpetrate widespread human rights abuses against the people of Kashmir in an attempt to crush the nonviolent Kashmiri struggle for independence. Enforced Involuntary Disappearances are part of this systematic and deliberate policy. Thousands of Kashmiris have disappeared since 1989.
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Foundation stone of a Memorial for the thousands of Kashmiris
who have disappeared after being taken into custody by Indian forces.
It was laid by their family members at the martyr's
graveyard in Srinagar on July 18, 2001.
The very next day, Indian police confiscated the foundation stone of the APDP memorial.
April 17, 2003: A Kashmiri woman sits with her two children
during a week-long hunger strike organized by the APDP.
Solidarity
A live 1987 performance in Arizona by the rock group U2 of a song written in solidarity with all the mothers of the disappeared around the world. Bono starts out this performance by invoking the Spanish words "El pueblo vancera!" (the people united will overcome) which was the rallying cry of the mothers of the disappeared in Central and South America during their struggle for justice.
"Mothers of the Disappeared" (Original version)
(To play song, click on link to open, or right click on link and select "save target as" to download. )
"Mothers of the Disappeared" (Live version)
(Streaming Real Audio)
Lyrics - - - Mothers Of The Disappearedby U2
Midnight, our sons and daughters
Were cut down and taken from us
Hear their heartbeat
We hear their heartbeat
In the wind we hear their laughter
In the rain we see their tears
Hear their heartbeat
We hear their heartbeat
Night hangs like a prisoner
Stretched over black and blue
Hear their heartbeat
We hear their heartbeat
In the trees our sons stand naked
Through the walls our daughters cry
See their tears in the rainfall
