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Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 15: Kashmiri Hindus, who quit their homes and hearths in January 1990 to escape persecution and physical liquidation at the hands of extremists, are feeling disturbed. They are also angry. They are cursing the men at the helm of affairs. They are angry not so much with the Kashmiri extremists who used all conceivable and inconceivable means, including the use of religious across the Valley to frighten the non-believers and ensure their exodus from the Valley. They are angry with New Delhi.
The Kashmiri Hindus believe that what the religious bigots in Kashmir did to them in 1990 was not something new and that what they did that black year was what they had done to them in the past umpteen times. They also believe that what the fanatics did to them in January 1990 was just a manifestation of their communal approach - approach based on primitive ideas, including the belief in the rigorous exclusion of the Other.
They are not happy with the custodians of the Indian State who, according to them, instead of taking on the fanatics in Kashmir and their mentor Pakistan, abandoned them and allowed full freedom to the radical Islamists like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Yasin Malik and Shabir Ahmad Shah to persecute the minorities, humiliate them and force them to flee from their homes and hearths leaving behind everything. They are angry with the custodians of the Indian State who, according to them, instead of protecting and preserving the few left over symbols of Indian civilization in Kashmir, allowed the radical forces unbridled freedom so that they could rid the Valley of the nationalists from the Kashmir. The bigots dubbed the Kashmiri Hindus as a community of fifth columnists.
After their forced exodus, the persecuted and exiled Kashmiri Hindus turned to the so-called ultra-nationalist and pro-Hindu organization, the RSS, and its political organ, BJP. They turned to the RSS and its political organ with the hope that they would surely play the role of a saviour and stand by them in their hour of grief. Actually, the RSS and the BJP had something different in their mind, it now appears. They wanted to express their solidarity with the displaced Kashmiri Hindus and, at the same time, they wanted to persuade them to go back to the Valley to help out the extremists, fundamentalists and separatists, who were at the receiving end across the world or whose movement was dubbed as communal.
An impression had gained ground over the period in the world that the Kashmiri Hindus were the victims of religious extremism and that what was happening in Kashmir was not "freedom struggle" but a struggle directed against India and the Hindu civilization and others who had refused to fall in line or those who had refused to join the anti-Indian civilization crusade unleashed by the fanatics. The displaced Kashmiri Hindus had created this impression through their relentless campaign and they did so surmounting all odds, including the official obstacles, as also the hurdles created by certain elements, including those belonging to the RSS and its political outfit. These elements did not like the use of such terms as "genocide" by the displaced Kashmiri Hindus. This is just one example.
They would also oppose tooth and nail the demand of the displaced Kashmiri Hindus for a separate homeland within the Kashmir valley where there will be free flow of the Indian Constitution. Instead, they would consistently create dissensions within the displaced community and ask them to go back to the Valley overlooking the ground realities as they existed, and continue to exist, in Kashmir.
One of the realities was that the attitude of the extremists in Kashmir had not undergone any change whatsoever and that they continued their anti-India and anti-Hindu crusade unabated and with renewed zeal, with the custodians of the Indian State condoning all their crimes.
That the RSS, like all other so-called secular organizations, behaved identically and that it, like all others, wants the displaced Kashmiri Hindus to go back to the Valley and suffer persecution at the hands of the fanatics and help the radical Islamists establish their secular credentials became abundantly clear sometime back, when, according to some angry Kashmiri Hindus, a senior RSS functionary asked them to return to Kashmir.
According to insiders, who have turned extremely angry with the RSS because of the line it had adopted, the said RSS functionary told them that "they have to make a sacrifice for the national cause by returning to Kashmir". "Aap ko desh ke liye balidan dena hi hoga". And, the RSS took this line at a time when terrorists like Yasin Malik reiterated that "the ongoing movement for an independent Jammu and Kashmir will continue".
The RSS and its political organ would do well to redesign its whole approach towards the displaced Kashmiri Hindus. This is imperative. To force them to return to the Valley under the prevailing situation would mean serving the extremists' cause. |
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