Manzoor Ahmad Wagay has been going each day to a spot the place his son’s garments have been discovered.
Srinagar: For the final eight months, Manzoor Ahmad Wagay has been digging each single day and arising with nothing. The day he does discover what he is searching for, it is going to be the physique of his younger son.
Wagay’s son Shakir Manzoor, a soldier of the Territorial Military, was kidnapped by terrorists on August 2. Since then, the 56-year-old father has been going every single day with shovels and spades to a spot the place his garments have been discovered.
He weeps when he talks in regards to the final time he noticed Shakir, who would have turned 25 this yr. It was Eid and he had come residence for lunch with the household.
“Barely an hour after he left residence, Shakir referred to as on the telephone and informed us he was going with some pals and that they need to not disclose this to the Military in the event that they ask for him. He had really already been kidnapped and his captors had allowed him to name one final time,” says Wagay.
The subsequent day, the automobile Shakir was utilizing was discovered fully burnt in Kulgam. “Every week later we discovered his blood-soaked garments at Ladhura, simply 3 km from our residence.”
Wagay claims he is aware of who kidnapped and killed his son. There have been 4 terrorists, he says, and all have been killed since in encounters. “One in every of them was an Ikhwani (counter rebel). He had run away with 4 AK rifles from a police camp at Bijbehara and shaped his personal militant group. We tried to contact all militant organisations and requested them to offer us any clue the place my son is buried. They claimed to haven’t any hyperlinks with people concerned within the kidnapping.”
On Wednesday, he went again the spot after many months, due to one thing his niece stated.
“This morning my niece Ufaira informed me she noticed Shakir bhai in her dream. Shakir informed her his physique has been buried on the place the place his garments have been present in a ditch. I informed my neighbours we should always go there and seek for the physique. Round 30 individuals turned up and we began digging. After hours of digging earth, we returned empty handed,” Wagay says.
“All these months, I’ve been unable to sleep. How can I sleep till I get the physique of Shakir and provides him an honest burial? It is not simply me…your entire village stood by me on this troublesome time. All of them liked him, that’s the reason villagers with shovels and spades include me every single day to dig.”
Days after the younger soldier disappeared, an audio clip on social media had terrorists claiming accountability. In addition they talked about denying the soldier’s household his physique in retaliation for a authorities coverage of not handing over our bodies of native militants to their households.
Since March 2020, our bodies of militants killed in encounters haven’t been launched to their households. The our bodies of frequent individuals killed in safety forces motion have been additionally not given to their households on grounds of Covid. They have been buried removed from their houses.
Wagay, in his boundless grief, has not stopped hoping he’ll discover his son.
In police data, Shakir is lacking and has not been declared lifeless.
“We have no concrete data the place he was buried after his killing. On the native stage police try their finest. Each time they get any data it is going to be shared with the household” stated Dilbag Singh, Director Normal of police, Jammu and Kashmir.
Wagay is indignant that his son has not been declared a martyr. “He was a soldier and laid down his life for India. First they failed to avoid wasting his life after which didn’t hint his physique. My enchantment to the federal government is to declare him a martyr. My son was kidnapped and killed throughout torture. He endured the worst torture however refused to talk in opposition to the nation.”
In Kashmir, round 8,000 individuals have gone lacking after they have been allegedly picked by safety forces within the final three a long time. That is the primary disappearance of a soldier.
