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| `CM needs a better understanding of Kashmir’ | | Truth and Reconciliation Commission | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 6: The Chief Minister while addressing the Legislative Assembly yesterday once again talked about his Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). He also talked about introducing a resolution in the House to set up the commission. Omar had promised a TRC immediately after he assumed office. He, however, failed to, fulfil his promise. Since then Kashmir has drastically changed and his mention of the TRC yesterday was not taken well by concerned circles in the Valley. According to them, the CM needs a better understanding of contemporary Kashmir. What does a reconciliatory commission mean by the way? The term reconciliation is coined when the victims are told to forget the past; forgive the perpetrators and start a fresh. Is it possible at this crucial juncture?
According to separatists more than one lakh people got killed during the past two decades. The patron of Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP), Advocate Parvez Imroz says around 8000-10,000 persons, mostly youth have been subjected to enforced disappearance. Valley has also witnessed large scale destruction of property. There is no denying the fact that many families received compensation for the loss suffered by them. But, Imroz says compensation cannot be a substitute for justice. “The government is under an obligation to compensate for the losses it has caused”, he said. Unfortunately for the government, most of the sufferers subscribe to his views.
As they say time is a great healer, the wounds activist inflicted up to 2008 have stopped bleeding but around 250 killings during the past three years cannot be forgotten, believes a Hurriyat activist.
A young man, Farooq Ahmad with wrinkles and lots of grey hair happens to be Wamiq Farooq’s father rules out reconciliation. “I want my son’s killer behind the bars. I want justice”, he said last month when his case was fixed for hearing in a court of law.
Wamiq, a student of 11th standard got killed on January 31 last year when a police officer allegedly smashed his head with a smoke shell in down town.
Another student Zahid Farooq was killed by a BSF party near Nishat on February 5. The BSF commandants heading the party and a soldier have been put on trial. The aggrieved family has vehemently resisted BSF petition to get the case transferred to a BSF court. “We want the killers to be hanged in public”, said a member of the aggrieved family.
Who can forget Tufail Matoo? His death caused a stir in the entire Valley. The Matoo family has got an FIR registered under Section 302 RPC. Can anybody, including the Chief Minister dare to tell them to forget the killing?
The list of sufferers is endless. The onslaught of police in the name of preventing another agitation has only added to peoples’ woes. How can the Chief Minister even think of reconciliation at this point of time?
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