For years 10th of every month was significant for a group of people in Kashmir. They would gather in a local park in Srinagar, sitting quietly holding photographs and placards about the missing - could have been their sons, their husbands, their fathers,their brothers.
All these people gather under the umbrella of one organisation APDP- the name in itself reveals the purpose .
This is an Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons - APDP has been actively campaigning for an end to the practice and crime of involuntary and enforced disappearances at local, national and international platforms. Members of the APDP have been engaged in documenting enforced disappearances in Kashmir since 1989 and have collected information on over one thousand such cases, so far. On the 10th of each month families of the disappeared persons come together under the aegis of APDP to hold a public protest in Srinagar to commemorate the disappearance of their loved ones and to seek answers from the state about the whereabouts of the missing persons.

In the pursuit of justice, Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) is a collective of relatives of victims of enforced and involuntary disappearances in Kashmir. Disappearances often end in extra-judicial killings or death by torture. The APDP was formed in 1994 to organize efforts to seek justice and get information on the whereabouts of missing family members. It presently consists of family members of about one thousand victims.
While there is no official number of
the disappeared persons, the unofficial estimates put the number of disappeared persons between 1989 and 2006 at anywhere between 8000-10,000. A majority of those disappeared are young men, including minors, others include people of all ages, professions and backgrounds, many of whom have no connection with the armed opposition groups operating in Kashmir.