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| Do you hate Yaseen Malik…read on | | Displaced KP’s launch online signature campaign against JKLF leader | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Mar 17
After dropping gun in mid 1990s and claiming to speak the language of peace, the pro-independence separatist and Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front chairman Mohammad Yaseen Malik has been projecting himself as “Gandhi of Kashmir”. However, the displaced Kashmiri Pandits who are not ready to forget his acts before he dropped the gun have launched net-savvy hate campaign against Malik.
If you Yaseen Malik and endorse his ideology, then better prefer to ignore this story. But if you have an ire against him or if you are a displaced Kashmiri Pandit hurt by Malik allegedly did in the early 1990s, then log on to www.petitiononline.com to sign a petition against Yaseen Malik. And you are not the first to do this. Around 550 signatures of Kashmiri Pandits from across the world have already been registered against Malik and the number is growing. The initiative has been launched by a US based Kashmiri Pandit.
The blog to sign petitions against Malik was launched a couple of days back just on the day when the JKLF leader address the India Today conclave under the theme “If I Could Change The World”. The Kashmiri Pandits had been deeply annoyed with the invitation to Malik and they have launched a scathing campaign against him through internet and other media. Apparently angered by his presence at a high level conclave, the Kashmiri Pandit activists are also holding protests, besides the online campaign.
Yaseem Malik is accused of masterminding the killing of many Kashmiri Pandits in the late 1980s and the early 1990s that led to the exodus of around 300,000 ethnic Hindus from the terror- hit valley.
There are dozens of cases pending against him, which are currently under Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe. The cases include the killing of four Indian Air Force officers in 1989 and the murder of Lassa Koul, director, Radio Kashmir, Srinagar, in 1990.
Malik is also accused of masterminding the 1989 kidnapping of Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of then union home minister Mufti Mohammed Sayeed. The Kashmiri separatist leader, who gave up armed struggle in 1994 and re-launched the freedom movement from a political platform, was arrested in these cases but was set free for want of evidence against him.
However, the Pandit activists allege that the government has been too soft on Malik and no proper trial has been conducted to "give justice to the hundreds of families of the victims".
"We believe the cases against Malik did not have a fair trial. We wonder how he is roaming free, travelling abroad on an Indian passport," Rashneek Kher, a Delhi-based activist.
"The families that fell victim to Malik's await justice and in fact nobody listens to their plight," said Kher, who also registered his signature in the online campaign.
Rahul Thathoo, the California-based student who initiated the signature campaign, said: "There is no crime known to mankind that Yasin Malik has not been involved in. You name it and he has done it all...killings, kidnappings, hawala, gun running.
"He and his JKLF goons are singularly responsible for the largest forced exodus of the modern history - that of the Kashmiri Pandits from the Kashmir Valley," Thathoo said inviting signatures. Many others have also written their comments alongside their signatures on the website.
A.K. Raina said: "They (militants) meet the criteria laid by the UN as unlawful combatants, and not just ordinary criminals, who are involved in heinous crimes against peaceful citizens resulting in their ethnic cleansing and other worst crimes against humanity."
"They need to be tried as warlords, criminals as in 9/11 (terror strike in the US), London blasts, Sydney swoop etc."
S.R. Kaul said: "Yasin Malik and many like him would have been non-entities if the government (of India) had sincere intentions of eliminating the menace of terrorism in the country."
"Yasin Malik should condemn terrorism and condone for being an agent of terrorism. He should apologise for having killed innocent Kashmiri Pandits," Brij Krishen Moza said in his comments. |
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