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EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 19
Vowing to continue the struggle in exile for restoration of rights of community, the displaced Kashmiri Pandits (KPs) today marked the twentieth year of their migration from the valley by holding a strong protest here.
Led by the representatives of different frontal KP organisations including Panun Kashmir, All State Kashmir Pandit Conference (ASKPC), Jammu and Kashmir Vichar Manch (JKVM) Non-camp Coordination Committee, APMCC and Camp representatives gathered in front of the Raj Bhawan and raised anti-terrorism, anti-Pakistan and anti-government slogans.
The activists, after the demonstration, also took an oath at Mubarak Mandi complex to continue the struggle in exile for restoration of the rights of the community.
Prominent KP leaders including H L Chatta, general secretary of ASKPC, Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, president, Panun Kashmir, R L Bhat, senior national vice president, JKVM, D.N.Kissu, Chairman, Non-camp Coordination committee, R K Raina, senior vice president, ASKPC, Ashok Kangan, president JKVM, Virender Raina, national spokesperson, Panun Kashmir, H L Bhat, general secretary, JKVM, Vinod Pandit, chairman APMCC, Subhash Chatta, P L Saraf and Rakesh Tikoo.
H L Bhat conducted the proceedings of the programme. Former convenor Shri Amarnath Leela Karan Sharma, Jammu Kashmir People’s Forum president Ramesh Sabharwal and Sunil Dimple also took part in the protest and addressed the protesters.
Speaking on the occasion, H L Chatta said that the Kashmiri Pandits cannot forget the horrors that they were forced to undergo in Kashmir valley in 1989-90 and thereafter.
“We have a bounden duty to pass on the message of our history to the next generation. We shall keep on fighting for our rights and will not stop till we achieve our desired goal,” he vowed.
Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, in his address, alleged that the Kashmiri Pandits, who are the indigenous people of Kashmir, have been the victims of the majority community, genocide and ethnic cleansing in Kashmir, resulting in their forced exodus.
“The governments at the Centre and in the state have conveniently ignored the findings of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) that reveal that acts akin to genocide were committed against the Pandit community and a genocide-type design may exist against them in the minds and utterances of the fundamentalists and terrorists,” he remarked. He also rejected the government’s contention on return issue.
R L Bhat, senior national vice president, JKVM said that the exodus of KPs has disproved the secular credentials of Kashmir. “Tall claims of secular accommodation and tolerance of Kashmir were brushed aside by the majority community itself in denying the minority Pandits any space within the valley,” he charged.
He also condemned the government’s efforts aimed at to raise issues of autonomy and self-rule.
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