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| UNHRC's belated cognisance of KPs displacement | | |
when the United Nations Hu
man Rights Council (UNHRC)
debates the plight of displaced Hindus from the Kashmir valley at its session in Geneva on March 28,it would be the first ever attempt by the world body to have taken cognizance and note of the plight of the minority community that had been forced to flee from their ancestral homeland about 24 years ago. In fact the UNHRC is not going to discuss the displacement of Hindus from the valley on its own. The world body has been motivated by a petition from one NGO, Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum. In its petition to the UNHRC the NGO functionaries have informed the world body that the way the minority community for forced to leave the Kashmir valley in 1990, soon after the rise of Pakistan sponsored proxy war against India in Jammu and Kashmir, was nothing short of ethnic cleansing of the valley.
The NGO functionaries have posted a statement to the chairman of the 26th session of the UNHRC in which they have demanded examination of the case of ethnic cleansing of Pandits due to killings by terrorists when insurgency erupted in 1990s.The petition or statement has been submitted under the item-8 of the agenda which deals with internally displaced people. And the NGO has submitted the petition when it has come to believe that the Government of India had failed 0 to control religious terrorism in the Kashmir valley, when terror groups selectively murdered hundreds of unarmed Hindus, a religious minority in the Valley. A total of 3,50,000 persons were forced to flee their homes and are presently scattered across India, particularly in Jammu. People belonging to the displaced families believe that it was the moral and constitutional responsibility of the Government of India to protect the lives of civilians during the rise of insurgency triggered by Islamic fundamentalist groups. .
The NGO is also seeking the internally displaced people(IDP) status for the displaced people so that they are able to get the relief in accordance with the norms set for the IDPs. What seems to be shocking is the way the UNHRC has fixed the schedule for taking up the issue pertaining to the displaced people from Kashmir on the last day of its session. This indicates that the UNHRC has not given sufficient priority to the issue that it deserves. It is not yet certain whether the session will be able to discuss the issue in detail and adopt a resolution or frame recommendations urging the Government of India to grant the Internally Displaced People status to all those who were forced to leave the Kashmir valley right from 1990 or even earlier. During all these 24 years neither the state Government nor the centre have given any importance to the demand of the displaced people from the Kashmir valley for grant of Internally Displaced People status which could help them to get bigger pecuniary help and enable the youth in the community to get jobs in the state and the central Government departments on a priority basis besides admission to their wards in the professional colleges. Though internally displaced people from Kashmir may not have as much importance as the Jews have in the international political circles the world body is supposed to take note of th00is development and find out ways for providing relief to the community. |
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