Colgame, Kashmir by Al-Hindi- When the body of Ahmed’s chocolate was found, he had sores and a blood -stained eye. His hair was falling, and the skin was at the hands and 18 -year -old, and his father, Muhammad Sadiq, remembered.

This was on March 16, three days after Sadiq learned that his older son, Rayez, 25, had also died a month after the two young men disappeared.

According to the official ruling of law enforcement officials, Shukhat and Rizz drowned in a channel in the College area in Kashmir, the Indian director, about 10 km (6 miles) of their homes. Post -death reports indicate a possible suicide.

But Sadiq – and many in the Gogar tribal society to which the family belongs – refuse to believe this narration. Sadiq admitted that he is not sure who is responsible for the disappearance and death of his children – whether they are security agencies or an armed group. However, whatever it was, Sadiq said he was convinced that there was a mistake in playing.

“This was not an accident,” the 72 -year -old cried out, and his photo flowing with anguish speaking to the island outside his home, in an open grazing ground, where his relatives and family members met to provide support to him. “They were tortured and killed.”

Although the government denies these accusations, disbelief about its narration embodies the deep lack of confidence of law enforcement officials in a region that was shaken by a series of last disappearance – where bodies appeared after weeks. Mukhtar Ahmed Awan, a 24 -year -old man who also disappeared with Rayez and Shawkat.

This lack of belief in the government highlights the history of Kashmir. Since the beginning of an armed rebellion against India in 1989, between 8000 and 10,000 Kashmiris disappearAccording to the Association of Parents of Displaced Persons (APDP), a group of relatives of the enforced disappearance in Kashmir.

“My children were brutally killed,” Sadiq insisted.

A tragic wedding visit

In the quiet lands of Laanarkut, about 68 km (39 miles) from Srinagar, the largest city in Kashmir, a mountainous landscape covered with walnut shelters and willow herds of sheep belonging to the local Gogar community.

On February 13, RIYAZ, Showkat and Mukhtar left the nearby Qazigund village to attend a wedding in the nearby Ashmuji area in the Kulgam area. They did not reach the place.

Sadiq tried to call his children on their mobile phones at about 6:10 pm. But the phones were stopped.

He said: “We have been desperately searched for them near the position of the job, in a cologne, and all the places we can think about.” At 7 pm, the family alerted the police. When the youth are still no longer the next morning, they filed a complaint about their missing with the police.

For a month, the police, the army and the local rescue teams looked for them, but they were unable to find anyone. Then, on March 13, a honest phone rang.

Researchers found the corpse of Reese in a channel. Three days later, the body of chocolate appeared in the same channel.

Forensic expert Aza Manzur Bhatt, who examined the corpse of Reese at the Coulgame County Hospital during the death, told reporters that the body was in a “advanced stage of rot”. Bhatt said that his exam suggested that Rays died due to drowning and did not give any indication of killing – instead indicating the potential death of suicide.

Shokat also died of drowning, according to the authorities.

But the protests erupted on the deaths that joined political controversy. Sadiq and his family protested the national highway linking Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir, to Jammu, the capital of the winter, asking for an investigation.

A video clip that shows a police officer kicking a protesters on the national highway viral gold.

Meanwhile, in the Jammu region, about 198 km (123 miles) from the protest site, the police arrested the leaders of the students from the Kashmiri community, Gogar, where they protested the death of Colgame.

Police announced an internal investigation into the accusations of an officer kicking a protester. At the Legislative Assembly of Kashmir, the leaders of the ruling national parties and opposition, including Congress, the Popular Democratic Party and the People’s Conference, demanded action against police staff participating in the kick.

There was no official statement from Prime Minister Omar Abdullah in the kick accident, nor in cases of disappearance and deaths.

An increase in cases of disappearance and mysterious deaths

For Sadiq and others demanding investigation, tracking the death of Rayez and Thokes, and the disappearance of Mukhtar, an increased anxiety pattern.

In the Cathoa region, the neighboring Kolgham, young men, Yujish Singh, 32, and Darshan Singh, 40, and Varon Singh, 15, on March 5 while returning from a wedding.

Their bodies were recovered from a channel after three days.

A few days later, two other teenagers – Muhammad Dean and Samman Ali – lost in Cathoa. It has not yet been found about a month.

They were Muslims, and the three men who disappeared in front of them were Hindu – all of whom were obligated to tragedy.

But the fear of the government and the security forces extends especially in the Gujjar community, after a series of abnormal killings and deaths in recent years. The community, along with an ethnic branch known as Bakarwals, is about 8 percent of the Jammu and Kashmir population, according to the last census in India in 2011, although some community representatives argue that their numbers are an active representative because of their Bedouin lifestyle.

In 2020, it was claimed that the Indian army officer kidnapped and killed three Googar youth in the Rajuri area. The police raised a paper against the officer, accusing him of kidnapping and killing the three workers in a confrontation at a stage. A military court has held a comet and recommended life imprisonment. But in November 2023, the Armed Forces Court suspended the ruling and gave the guarantee to the officer, while the case continues to listen.

Three years later, in December 2023, after an attack by armed fighters on army cars in Bonche Province Tuba Bear VillageThe security forces detained many local population to interrogate. Later videos appeared showing officers who hit civilians and apply pepper powder to their wounds. Three men from Gogar – Muhammad Shubikat (22), Aman Hussein (45), and Jabir Ahmed (32) – died in the reservation, where their bodies offered signs of severe torture.

Then, starting in December 2024, 17 people from society died under mysterious circumstances within a little more than a month. The victims, including 13 minors, showed symptoms such as fever, vomiting and abdominal pain before their death. Investigations excluded viral or bacterial infections, with preliminary results indicating that nerve toxins are the potential cause. Despite extensive tests, the exact poison and its source remain unidentified, leaving society in fear and requesting answers.

In February 2025, a 25 -year -old Gujar man, Maghan DeanA video clip explaining why he killed himself – in detail the alleged torture at the hands of the security forces.

The police claimed that Dean, who died in suicide, was interrogated about suspicious Pakistani contacts – and was not tortured.

This is not a story that a lot of Kashmiri Googar believes.

“Our people disappear, and we ask us to remain calm,” said Abed Awan, a 18 -year -old neighbor in Colgame.

“We live in fear, knowing that our voices are ignored, and our suffering is rejected. It seems that we are not present for those in power.”

“Waiting for death”

The hands of the 80 -year -old Chandi Awan shook when the father of Mukhtar, the 24 -year -old, was in Colgame, holding a walking stick.

Awan, surrounded by their sad relatives, while sitting outside his house, said about 12 km (7.5 miles) from Sadiq’s house: “Mukhtar Nour Aini was. “The pain is unbearable – it seems as if I am waiting for death.”

Mukhtar’s brother, Mohamed Gilani Awan, said that the government’s interpretation of the Mofzat Shukat and Riaz is meaningless. “Their possessions, including cards, mobile phones and criticism, were dry. How is this possible?” He said.

He said that every night, while trying to sleep, all he sees is the face of his brother.

“The smile that lit up in our house, and the dreams he had.” I hope there will be a way to boost time, to give him the life he deserves. “

Families say they will continue to seek justice.

“We will not let this go, and we call for a fair and independent investigation,” said Ghulam Nabi, 65.

Meanwhile, the wife of Riyadh sat down to Pigum, quietly in a corner of her one -storey house, her face pale, eyes swollen from tears. In one of her hands, she grabbed a handkerchief, and in the other a picture of her husband. Sild Sebs shook her body staring at the picture, then embraced her eight -year -old daughter.

“All we want is justice, nothing more, nothing less. If the law is really present, we will get justice,” she shouted.

“They killed him. They killed Riaz.”