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Jammu,May 2
Roots In Kashmir (RIK), an initiative launched by Kashmiri Pandit youth in India and elsewhere has planned a three-day visit to Jammu to understand the complexities of the overall problem the community is facing in camp and non-camp areas and pressure authorities to improve the situation by various action-plans.
A group coordinator Rashneek Kher said, "We will be interacting with people from all age groups and from different areas, including camp and non-camp areas. Our motive is to understand the problem in a better way, analyse it and then finally find a solution and implement it"
“To escape persecution, more than 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits had to leave their homes and hearths back in the valley. Even after 18 years after mass exodus, more than 40,000 of these Kashmiri Pandit refugees are living in hellish conditions in uninhabitable refugee camps” he added.
Over the last 6 months RIK has been working on various issues and has even successfully carried out numerous campaigns, which include, protesting against Yasin Malik and his campaigns; meeting the NHRC, nation-wide protest on the International Human Rights Day; organizing the first ever Kashmiri Pandit youth Festival attended by more than 30,000 people and many more.
Aditya Raj Kaul, well known youth activist and member of RIKsaid, "Roots In Kashmir wishes to draw attention of the citizens of the country, the government, various human rights bodies, NGO's and specially the media to the conditions in which the Kashmiri Pandits are surviving today, the violations on human rights against them and the bias of the government against this minority community whose only fault was that they stood firm on their being Indians"
Among other demands set by the group, include set up of a commission to probe the planned and forced exodus of Kashmiri Hindu community as has been done after Gujarat riots and Kashmir custodial killings; trial and conviction for millitant Yasin Malik and Biita Karate (allies Farooq Ahmed Dar) who has admitted to media of killing for than 22 Kashmiri Hindus; better amenities, relief, employment, sanitation, medical care and education for people living in camps; and restoration and preservation of all temples in the Kashmir valley.
Pooja Shali, a female activist with the group said,"The 3-day long visit will start on 4th May until 6 th of May. We'll meet activists, leaders, common people and specially the youth. We will also meet the authorities with an action plan to devise mechanisms to improve the condition of refuges in camps,".
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