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| Relief Organisation: The coercive arm of government | | Black Sheep In The Community | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 16: Corruption and the mismanagement are not the only problems in the camps run by the relief organization for the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus in Jammu. The Relief Commissioner's office has, according to sources, "gradually evolved into an elaborate coercive psychological system of mind and milieu controlling". "Relief Commissioner decides who the leaders of Kashmiri Hindus are. Relief commissioner chooses these leaders. Relief commissioner decides which leader or group has to meet delegations of human rights organizations, political parties or dignitaries of foreign countries. Relief commissioner decides what exactly they have to say, makes the memoranda they have to submit to the delegations and even drafts their press releases," say some of the aggrieved refugees.
Talking to camp dwellers brings these things to one's notice. The fright is perceptible. Everybody living in camps wants to speak his or her heart out. But everybody speaks in whispers "lest the prying eyes or ears of relief organization might hear". "The technique employed by the authorities to make them conform is simple. Send a verification threat to the family, delay the release of ration and monthly allowances," a lady after closing the door of her quarter said that "even a delay of weak can make them starve". "They may choose to take that risk once in a while but the monthly school fee of their children cannot wait," she also told this correspondent.
On the Kashmiri Hindu Martyr's Day, "the coercion techniques employed were brazenly visible". The "residents of the Purkhoo camp were delivered the message candidly through the employees of the relief Organization and directed not to participate in the main programme at the press club. Even some who had embarked the matadors were delivered the message to get down. At various functions held on the martyr's day camp dwellers were particularly targeted. Some community journalists about whom there are allegations of having been allotted quarters in new two-room facilities in the camps or receiving benefits in various forms were seen specifically targeting participants from camps and advising them not to allow community leaders from outside the camps to enter and operate in the camps," sources close to the affected communicate disclosed.
The suffocation is so high that many of the camp dwellers are now "ready to take the risk". They want to "approach human rights bodies" and "they are willing to talk even though still maintaining anonymity". They talk about the "agents" of Relief Commissioner. When recently one camp leader suspected to be the "stooge of the relief organization publicly advised camp residents not to allow outsiders to influence them there was a virtual revolt against him in the camps". Camp residents of Jagati addressed a press conference to let it be known that "he no longer represents them". Even one "Kashmiri Hindu connected with the profession of journalism suspected to be pleading the case of the relief organization was rebuked and heckled right at the venue of the press conference". Allegations that "some members of relief organization indulge in carnal pursuits using their position in the relief organization has particularly outraged the residents living in camps and also outside it".
The simmering unrest in the camps is coming to the surface gradually. The government is still continuing with its "coercive" techniques. The camp residents are told "privately that their problems will only increase in case they do not conform". They are told that "they will no longer be treated as migrants". They are told that "power cuts to the camps will be increased". They are "threatened that the water supply to camps will become more erratic". The "essential strategy till now of the government is to systematically select sequence and coordinate many different types of coercive influences, create more anxiety and stress amongst the internally-displaced Kashmiri Hindus to make them support and conform to the government policy". And this is done in the form of "small almost invisible steps like telling them through their henchmen that they are no longer living in a camp but in a township and government will soon strip them of any facilities accruing to them as camp dwellers". They are told the "camps would be soon disbanded and they will have to return to valley". Rumors are being floated that the "government employees will soon be transferred back to valley". The eventual target of all this seems to be to make Kashmiri Hindus toe to the views of the ruling parties on the eventual solution to the problems in Jammu and Kashmir. They should not "oppose autonomy to Jammu and Kashmir". They should not talk about the "communalism of the majority community" in the state. Such "indirect suggestions are made to them almost daily". Relief organization is gradually been seen by the dwellers "not as a vehicle of relief but as an instrument of attrition". |
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