By Chieu Luu
In 2002, Tahira Bano’s husband left their home in Indian-administered Kashmir on a trip to the capital New Delhi. He never returned. Since then Bano has been seeking answers about what happened to him. She is one of about 1,500 women in Kashmir who are known as “half-widows”. Their husbands are among an estimated 8,000 people who disappeared in the years following an uprising of Kashmiris who opposed Indian rule, which began in 1989. Families of the missing believe they were either imprisoned or killed by government forces. After nearly two decades of waiting for word about her husband and raising their two sons on her own, Tahira refuses to give up.
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