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| KPs quit Valley to escape torture, humiliation & liquidation-I | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 9 : NC president Farooq Abdullah's brother and MLA Mustafa Kamal is in the news these days. For, he has been making highly controversial statements. He has been attacking the Congress and terming it as a party of cheaters, bluffers and intriguers. His statements have even infuriated his brother and party president, who has even gone to extent of saying that "what could he do with him; he can't expel him from the party; he is the product of my father's folly." Kamal has, in return, said in reaction that his brother has been forced to make such a statement. Political analysts believe that Kamal is making controversial statements as "part of a strategy designed to kill many birds with one stone."
During the past two days, Kamal made statements on the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley in early 1990. First he said that it was the then Union Home Minister Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Governor Jagmmohan who engineered migration. And, a day later, he said it was the Army and Central agencies which caused migration or persuaded the miniscule minority of the Kashmiri Hindus to quit their homes and hearths and that the same could not be termed as "mass exodus." "In no way it was an ethnic cleansing of a particular community," he also said. His major refrain was that it was the Army and other Central agencies that were on the "forefront hatching conspiracies aimed at creating a situation that would cause exodus of Kashmiri Hindus and enable them to "butcher the Kashmir Muslims following the outbreak of armed rebellion in 1990." "The Army was in the forefront to inflame communal passions during that period, since Kashmiri Muslim was the target then. They wanted to butcher them so as to control the situation. However, Kashmiri Muslims did not allow them to succeed and majority of Pandit brothers and sisters remained safe. Later, the Pandits were bundled to Jammu with a promise that they would be allowed to return to the Valley after 3 months. The communal passions were stirred just to get a reason to murder the Kashmiri Muslims," he, in fact, said. He also claimed: "The Muslims followed the age-old tradition of secularism. They kept the ethos of brotherhood alive. They gave a sense of security and Pandits who stay put here passed the tumultuous times. How can a Kashmiri Muslim be blamed for the ethnic cleansing then?" Kamal made these outrageous statements after his brother and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah tendered an apology to the Kashmiri Hindus for the "ethnic (read religious) cleansing" that took place in the 1990s.
What Kamal said is absolutely wrong and motivated. Neither the Army nor the central agencies caused migration of the Kashmiri Hindus. Similarly, to say that Mufti Mohammad Sayeed and Jagmohan were squarely responsible for the exodus of the Kashmiri Hindus will be to murder history, distort the facts and mislead and hoodwink the national opinion. The causes responsible for the exodus of the Kashmiri Hindus were deeper. No one quits his/her home whatever the situation. One only migrates to other area when one feels that his life, dignity, culture and religion are under grave threat.
It would not be out of place to mention here that the secessionist and violent movement engulfed the whole of the Kashmiri Valley on an unprecedented scale in 1989. The Pakistani dreaded Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) saboteurs and the ardent believers in the concept of "Nizam-e-Mustafa (Islamic rule) engineered this bloody movement to purge the Valley of all non-Muslims and achieve their sinister objective. It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that one of their immediate targets were the minority Hindus.
The main organizations that launched a crusade against the Kashmiri Hindus were the Jamait-e-Islami, Jamait-ul-Tulba, People's League and the Muslim United Front. The entire vernacular press and the clergy, plus certain elements in the administration gave their unstinted support to the separatists' and fundamentalists' plan designed to evict the entire Hindu population from the Valley and give a particular type of religious orientation to everything in Kashmir. Some of the militant outfits did try to involve the Pandits in their anti-India and pro-"Nizam-e-Mustafa" struggle by holding out a "promise that they would be given protection as a minority in the Muslim State to be governed in accordance with the Islamic tenets." Some of them even asked them to renounce their religion and culture and embrace Islam. (To be concluded) |
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