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| Victims of terror and violence in Jammu, UNHRC in Kashmir | | Congress Again Bungles | | Rustam
JAMMU, Mar 28: United Nations Special Rapporteur, Christof Heyns, reached Srinagar on March 26 and left for Gwalior the next day. He was sent to Kashmir by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Geneva, and his visit was approved by the Congress-dominated UPA Government. His visit, which was the result of hectic lobbying by "human rights activists" and other organizations, was described as a fact-finding mission. He had been asked by the council to "examine extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions in the last more two decades of conflict. According to Heyns himself, his "mandate covers all killings that are in violation of international human rights or humanitarian laws and this includes killings by law enforcement officials due to excessive use of force, deaths in custody, killings of vulnerable groups like journalists and human rights defenders". "The focus of the visit is also on prevention of such incidents and that justice is meted out to the victims," he had also stated. During his stay at Srinagar, he met "human rights activists", members of the Kashmir Bar Association, members of the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) and members of "civil society". He will present his report to New Delhi as well as the UNHRC.
What does all this show? It shows the bias of the Congress-led UPA Government in favour of Kashmir and those involved in subversive and anti-national activities and against Jammu province which houses as many as 1.5 million victims of terrorism and secessionist and communal violence. It also shows the bias of the UNHRC towards the victims of violence in Jammu who have been crying for justice since decades and complaining that their human rights have been consistently violated and that their life has become a veritable hell on earth. The Union Government should have asked the United Nations Special Rapporteur to visit Jammu to see the plight of the victims, called refugees. Instead, it permitted him to visit Kashmir so that he could listen to those responsible for the Indian troubles in Kashmir and exodus of Kashmiri Hindus and Sikhs from the Valley and prepare a report based on the biased inputs given by the vested interests.
Jammu has, everyone knows, over the years became a land of refugees. Over one lakh refugees from West Pakistan -- mostly members belonging to the depressed classes -- have been leading a wretched life in Jammu since 1947. They migrated to Jammu to save their life. Even after over 65 years of independence and forced migration these refugees have failed to obtain citizenship rights despite repeated passionate pleas and protest demonstrations. They are considered a community which doesn't deserve human rights, including the right to education and vote.
Jammu also houses nearly one million refugees from Pakistan-occupied-Jammu and Kashmir (POJK). They, like the refugees from West Pakistan, had also left their original habitat in 1947. They left behind properties worth millions and millions of crores. They have been struggling since then to obtain compensation and proper rehabilitation, but with no result. As a result, they continue to suffer.
In 1989-1990, Kashmir witnessed genocide of the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus. Several Hindus lost their lives. Several Hindu women were molested and murdered. Their religious places were vandalized. The fanatics created an environment that left the Kashmiri Hindus with no other option but to quit their homes and hearths and migrate to Jammu and other places of the country. It happened in early 1990. Ever since then, they are longing for a dispensation that induces them to go back to the Valley and lead there a dignified life in their homeland invested with Union Territory status. But nothing has come out of their passionate pleas.
And, then, there are the original inhabitants of Jammu province. Their number is more than three million. Their plight is miserable and their life pathetic. In fact, they constitute the most neglected lot in the whole of the country. New Delhi considers them irrelevant and perpetrates on them injustice after injustice. The situation has virtually climaxed to the point that their very identity is under grave threat. New Delhi acts as an agent of Kashmir and Kashmiri leadership and virtually despises the people of Jammu province, including refugees of all varieties, under the misguided notion that the conciliation of the neglected people of Jammu province might "hurt the separatist psyche of Kashmir and Kashmiri leadership".
Was it not desirable on the part of New Delhi to make the UN rapporteur visit the refugee camps in Jammu province also so that he could prepare a balanced report or so that he could know what really happened in the state between 1989 and till date? It was indeed very desirable. It is shocking that the Congress-led UPA Government chose to ignore the real victims and helped the vested interests in Kashmir to further blacken the face of the Indian State in the eyes of international community. |
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