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| Govt's action's lauded by tourists and pilgrims | | | The just born Kashmir Peoples' Movement had not been born when Kashmir witnessed greatest human rights violations forcing over 3.50 lakh Kashmiri Pandits to migrate to Jammu and to other states. It be Jammu and Kashmir Peoples Movement has voiced concern even after 30 years of the exodus of Pandits. (JKPM), general secretary, Shehla Rashid Shora has alleged that Delhi was violating human rights in restive Kashmir region.
In a statement issued here, Shora said, "The central government is infringing upon the religious rights of Amarnath yatris by forcing them to cut short their pilgrimage. It is a failure on part of the Modi government that, despite having hundreds of thousands of troops, despite putting massive curbs on civilian movement on highways, and despite having the Armed Forces Special Powers Act, the government is unable to ensure the safety of those devotees who want to perform their religious obligations! It shows the incompetence of the central government and its disregard for people's religious rights."
The JKPM wants the security forces to use the Armed forces special powers Act and when the time for the security forces to take recourse to AFSPA there is roar among the people against the use of Act. Shora while criticizing the move to evacuate tourists and travellers from the valley said that it was unconstitutional and unlawful on part of the government to enter hotels and force travellers and visitors to leave. "Police personnel have entered hotels and forced them to turn out guests. As one tourist put it, this is a government-sponsored chaos! No law enforcement authority has a right to enter hotel premises and force any citizen to leave," she said The Government envisaged turmoil after Article 370 and Article 35-A was revoked. In fact if the Government deployed 25,000 additional security forces they knew that Kashmir centric and separatists would not allow peace. And the Government has taken the initiative of recruiting 50,000 unemployed youth within a couple of months.
Terming such coercive actions a "cultural shock", Shora said that, "It might be acceptable to turn Kashmiris out of hotels in mainland India, but it is against Kashmiri culture to turn out guests. Such actions by the government act is condemnable and culturally insensitive. At best, governments can issue advisories and leave it to people to decide. But Shora should appreciate the Government preparations for measuring the muscles with anti India forces. Had not the Government stopped pilgrims on way to Amarnath cave and had not the Government asked tourists to vacate the hotels and houseboats there would have been a massacre of the sort and had any pilgrim or tourist been attacked it would have given rise to uprising in India. This way if the Government moved carefully it should be appreciated by those heading the Peoples' Movement. |
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