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The US based organisation of Kashmiri Pandits have termed one sided the hearing on human rights in south Asia particular the Kashmir situation. The Congressional hearing on human rights situation in South Asia with a focus on Kashmir was one-sided, a top organisation of Kashmiri Pandits has alleged in a letter to the Congressman who chaired the committee, saying it left out one of the indigenous races of Jammu and Kashmir against whom human rights violations had been committed for the last 30 years. The Kashmiri Overseas Association (KOA), in a letter to Brad Sherman who chaired the Congressional hearing the other day, said the goal of the hearing on October 22 was to bring forth 'The Human Rights in South Asia' "But the hearing failed in doing so as it left out one of the indigenous races of Jammu and Kashmir against whom human rights violations have been committed for the last 30 years.
"Without their testimony, the committee hearing promoted anti-Hindu sentiment, peddled an anti-India propaganda machine to appease the Muslim population in the United States and the globe," KOA alleged in the letter to Sharman, the Chairman of the Subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific, and Nonproliferation of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The KOA is not satisfied with the invited panellists with varying perspectives, the hearing was conducted to favour a one-sided narrative which was clearly illustrated with only three of the six panellists dominating the hearing," it said. The Congressional hearing has been on one side and against the Pandits and when the matter has been discussed earlier to the dignity of the Congressmen.
The said journalist Aarti Tikoo Singh is a victim of the brutal forced exodus of Kashmiri Hindus of 1990. She was in the Valley of Kashmir a fortnight ago. She is an eyewitness of the ground situation. The ground situation to which the Congressmen were ignorant otherwise unwillingly the congressmen had assumed lopsided vision of the situation in Kashmir
Who better to talk about the situation than her? It was clear that she was getting cut off multiple times from expressing herself. "We were hopeful when you asked what happened to the 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits who left the Valley 30 years ago, but to our quick dismay, you never gave her the opportunity to expand her response. It was clear that you did not intend to hear the reality," KOA president Shakun Malik and KOA secretary Amrita Kar said in the letter. |
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