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| KPs quit Valley to escape torture, humiliation & liquidation - II | | | NEHA
EARLY TIMES REPORT
JAMMU, Jan 10: Those who unleashed a no-holds-barred campaign of hatred and vilification against the Kashmiri Hindus with a view to forcing them to quit the Valley and those who urged upon them to renounce their religion and culture and join the movement aimed at liberating Kashmir from "Indian yoke" were, as a matter of fact, two sides of one and the same coin. The former in order to achieve "Nizam-e-Mustafa" took to terrorism and the latter to achieve the same objective took to subtler methods. The road, though diverged from each other, led to the same destination: annihilation of the Hindu culture and emergence of a theocratic and exclusivist Kashmir, where the non-believers would not have any say whatever.
Determined as they were to defend and preserve their 5000-year-old identity, which was an integral part of the Indian identity, and culture, the Kashmiri Hindus resisted the zealots' onslaught for some time. In the process they suffered humiliations at the hands of the zealots and separatists, who strove to the hilt to degrade their history and culture. Their business establishments, temples and shrines and residential houses were attacked and vandalized. Some of their women were ill-treated and dishonoured. Several hundreds of them were brutally tortured. Some of them were murdered in cold blood. In fact, the extremists and separatists perpetrated all kinds of barbarities on the hapless and abandoned Kashmiri Hindus. Torture deaths were brought about by inhuman practices, which included "stiching the lips of the victim before killing him and nailing the chest and feet of the poor man till he bled to death, strangulation by using steel wires, hanging, impaling, branding with hot rods, burning alive, lynching, gouging of eyes before assassination, slicing, dismemberment of limbs, drowning, dragging to death, draining of blood and slaughter" (The Hindustan Times, August 15, 1995 & White Paper on Kashmir, Jeoffry & Bell Inc, Delhi, P 87).
The most "dastardly and inhuman acts of terrorism were", according to an eye witness, "those committed in hospitals, where the Hindus were brought in for treatment after being injured in terrorist attacks were either allowed to die for want of treatment or brutally murdered by the doctors and others who collaborated with the terrorists. A number of cases were reported where the injured were allowed to death. Scores of cases were reported where the kidnapped Hindus were drained of their blood and their lives were terminated " (White Paper on Kashmir, P. 88).
The victims of militancy did wait and wait for the government to come to their rescue and perform its legitimate duty. But the authorities remained totally indifferent. Unable to withstand the April 14, 1990 terrorists' unequivocal threat to "leave the Valley within 48 hours or face death," the minority ultimately decided to quit Kashmir, leaving behind property and everything worth thousands and thousands of crores.
It is, however, a different matter that the Leftists, the "secularists" and "human rights" activists started a disinformation campaign almost immediately to cover the frightful face of communalism and mislead the world opinion holding the then Governor, Jagmohan, responsible for the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus from the Valley. That Jagmohan did not encourage the Hindus' flight is evident from the conversation between the Srinagar-based renowned editor of Srinagar Times, Gulam Mohammad Sofi, and The Times of India correspondent, Omkar Razdan. Sofi told Razdan in November 1997 "it is a total lie. It is a part of systematic propaganda. The Pandits' flight from the Valley was the sequel to a plan hatched well in advance from outside the state. It had nothing to do with Jagnohan. The situation was too bad when Jagmohan assumed office. Rajiv Gandhi (he was not Prime Minister then) came for an overnight visit. I was present in Centaur Gotel in Dal Lake when Rajiv Gandhi said Kashmir is slipping away" (The Times of India, Nov 19, 1997).
It would be better if Mustafa Kamal read the newspapers of the time and stop attacking Jagmohan, the army and the Central agencies. The fact of the matter is that New Delhi did nothing to tackle the situation arising out of the campaign of hatred and vilification unleashed by the extremists and separatists against the hapless Hindus. Had New Delhi acted that time, the situation today would have been altogether different. That even after 21 years of exodus the displaced Kashmiri Hindus are unwilling to return to the original habitat is a reflection on the state of things that prevail even today in the Valley. The truth, in short, is that the number of Hindus who still reside in the Valley is not more than 10,000 and that the process of migration continues unabated. (Concluded) |
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