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| Six migrant families from Gool shifted to Jammu , await relief | | |
Jammu, Nov 21
29 members of six migrant families including 15 children, have fled from their ancestral Lancha village in Gool area of Udhampur district after they were threatened by militants.
Camping here in jammu for more than two days these families are still awaiting relief from the state government authorities as they donot want to return home for fear of getting killed at the hands of militants.
Ismail and his wife Reshma said in Jammu on Tuesday “we left our village in the night of October 21 and reached the winter capital after knocking at the doors of state authorities at various places including office of the Udhampur deputy commissioner.”
With tears in her eyes Reshma said “when we refused to give our boys for recruitment in the militant outfits we were threatened of elimination. And when the security forces failed to help us we had no other alternative but to flee our village for safety.”
Another migrant Ali Mohd. Said that “my brother had fled the village a year ago after militants had made an abortive bid to force his daughter into a wedlock with a leader of the outfit.”He said his brother,Kala and his family members were already residing in a migrant camp at Talwara in Udhampur.”
These migrant families were able to carry some utensils and clothes in their gunny bags.”We did not carry anything except some utensils and clothes in the gunny bags,”said Ismail.
As mediamen visited a local dharmshala in the city they had nothing to eat.And the first organization that came to their help was Shiv Sena headed by Anan Sharma. Sharma said “we have already distributed 29 blankets,10 kgs of rice and wheat flour to each member of the migrants.”
The Jammu unit of the Indian Red Cross also initiated measures for providing some relief material to the migrants.Dinesh Gupta, executive secretary of the local unit of the Red Cross, said “we have distributed 25 kgs of rice,five kgs of milk powder,five kgs of sugar and 29 blankets among the migrants as per the directions of the deputy commissioner.
” He said “since several children had signs of fever and were emaciated a medical team would be sent for providing them medicines
Noor Jan, said “we fled from our village when militants tried to force us to handover our boys for enrolement in the Jehadi groups.” She was trembling with fear when she recalled how she was threatened to be killed if she did not handover her only son to the militants.
She and Ali Mohd. Said “either the Government should lodge us in some migrant camp or set up a security picket of paramilitary forces in our village if the authorities wanted us and other aid.”to return to Lancha.” |
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