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| KPs to observe January 19 as Holocaust day | | 25 years of exile | |
Early Times Report
jammu, Jan 6: Kashmiri Pandits in all over the country to observe January 19 as 'Holocaust Day'. It was on this day in 1990 terrorist entrepreneurs under the aegis of JKLF and other allied outfits declared war against the minority Kashmiri Hindu community through hate campaigns, threats, selective killings and bomb attacks paved way for religious-cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus, the aborigines of Kashmir.
No Kashmiri Hindu who has lived those days in Kashmir and retains some sensitivity can over-come these nightmarish experiences. That is why on this day Kashmiri Hindus hold protests, take out rallies and make resolve to keep reminding the world that this community will never accept its cleansing as fait accompli. Kashmiri Hindus have been great survivors and retain the will to survive in future also.
Exile leads to spiritual impoverishment-not only in cultural terms but also in retaining memory of the cleansing act itself. Fear, insecurity, powerful adversary, insensitivity all around etc. tend to induce de politicization and feelings of defeatism. As the exile gets prolonged the mass of the exiled community comes to regard its own self as the worst enemy. The resultant social distortion of its personality makes it behave in bizarre ways. It seeks to invent virtues in those who imposed genocide on it. Secondly, it begins to advocate its redemption by undermining its own community-its ethos, culture, struggle, leadership and comes to regard assimilation in alien culture and erosion of its identity as its ultimate salvation. This has been true of all exiled groups in history. If living in exile is not accompanied by consciousness of exile, the exiled community would not be able to preserve its identity consciousness for retrieving its homeland.
Observance of the 'Holocaust Day' addresses this dimension as well, besides keeping political visibility on genocide.
A new generation of Kashmiri Hindus born after 1990 have no memories-of being pushed out or the nostalgia of living Kashmiri way of life in the ambience of Kashmir. How do they relate themselves to the moment for retrieval of homeland? Participation in community agendas on 'Holocaust Day' and other days affords an opportunity. |
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