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| Omar Abdullah's Truth and Reconciliation Commission | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 28: State Chief Minister Omar Abdullah has again spoken of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission in order to address the woes of the people who suffered in the State during the last 20 odd years.
The problem with the proposed commission that the State Chief Minister has been speaking about for many months now is that nobody has the faintest idea who should constitute the commission. Has it to be a statutory body to be constituted by the State, has it to be a statutory body to be constituted by the centre or has it to have an international dimension as well?
The problem with Omar Abdullah's hyped Truth and Reconciliation Commission is that nobody exactly knows who will speak the truth and who will do the reconciliation. Omar has also said the commission should have an over-reach across the LOC and it should look beyond the borders between the India and Pakistan for identify the causes for the woes of the people.
Before going public on the commission, has the Chief Minister taken the centre or those governing across the LOC into confidence? Is he speaking just as he did in case of AFSPA which has now become a bone stuck in the State government's throat? Or, has the Chief Minister had detailed discussions about the possibility of such a commission with New Delhi and Islamabad, if the proposed commission is to go into and fix responsibility for the woes of the people in the State?
Nobody knows it probably better than the Chief Minister that most of the woes of the people in Jammu and Kashmir State have had their roots across the LOC. Unless those in power there agree to a frank post mortem of events and ills how can anybody ever think of a truth and reconciliation commission that would actually spill the beans on the tragedies of the last 20 years?
If, however, the commission has to be an intra Jammu and Kashmir affair then perhaps there is hardly any need to constitute it at all. Who does not know the truth of events and ills in the State? Doesn't the Chief Minister know it? Don't the migrant Pandits know it whose wounds Omar plans to heal through the proposed truth and reconciliation commission?
The Chief Minister will have to tell the truth himself before he plans to constitute a truth and reconciliation commission. What does he have in mind? Who is on board with such a proposal? Who will cooperate in the constitution and the subsequent functioning of such a commission?
As has been said in the beginning, who will tell the truth and who will do the reconciliation? |
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