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Srinagar august 30: Young artist of Kashmir valley today created a miniature of Asia’s largest tulip garden using instillation art work to register their protest and express solidarity with the parents of disappeared persons on the International day of Disappeared.
The artists created the miniature of the tulip garden located on the banks of Dal Lake here in Srinagar.
Artists were attending, along with, members of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Parents ( APDP) a sit-in- protest on Wednesday, against the ‘enforced disappearance of their dear ones allegedly at the hands of the Indian security forces.’
According to APDP 10,000 people were subjected to enforced disappearance by the government forces since the armed rebellion against the Indian state started in 1989.
30th of August is being observed as the International Day of the Disappeared globally.
Family members of disappeared persons were present in the sit in who accuse state of being the perpetrator of the ‘war crimes’.
An art and design student of Beacon house National University in Pakistan Khytul Abiyad told INS explained the miniature saying that since Indian state over the years have been focusing on to create gardens in Kashmir in order to hide its realities in the war torn region.
“What we did here is what exactly what our state (India) is doing in Kashmir. We killed the grass by painting it and hurt the ground by pushing nails into it,” she said adding, “What we did with the grass and ground is exactly what India is doing to bury our reality.”
Another artist Qazi Tabiah Mueen a fine art student of Kashmir University said that art is a strong form of an expression that one can use to give out vent to his or her emotions. “Art in Kashmir has not been pursued the way it is pursued by people across the globe.”
“When you do events like these it grabs the attention of common people not only in Kashmir but in the entire world,” she added
Chairman APDP, Parveena Ahangar demanded DNA profiling of the bodies in the unmarked graves found in North Kashmir.
“It is ironic that dreaded killers like Mum Kanna are being awarded while we are being denied the right to know about the fate of our beloved ones,” Parveena said.
The protest was joined by Chairman Jammu& Kashmir Liberation Front Mohammad Yaseen Malik.
