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Who of the two - Hindus or Muslims -- suffered in Kashmir? | Countering Mischievous Propaganda | | Neha
JAMMU, July 14: Separatists and their supporters in Kashmir and outside have intensified vilification campaign against India and security forces. During the last few days, a number of articles on the alleged human rights violations in Kashmir have appeared in a number of international dailies and journals like New York Time, Guardian and Time. A documentary on the allegedly human rights violations in Kashmir has also been screened by a UK-based news channel. These writing on Kashmir and documentary have sought to create an impression that Kashmiri Muslims are being oppressed by the security forces and New Delhi has been using all conceivable means to suppress dissent. All these writings have sought to mislead the international community by painting things in lurid colours, as also by saying that a reign of terror has been let loose in Kashmir in order to retain control over the territory of the unwilling Kashmiri Muslims. Who actually have suffered in Kashmir Valley? Is it the Kashmiri Muslims? Or, is it the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus? Kashmiri Muslims, certainly not. No one can oppress them. No one can stop them from doing what they have been doing. For, they are the ruling class. For, they control every institution. For, the Chief Minister belongs to Kashmir and he not only shares the views of separatists, but also advocates identical views. For, the main opposition party, which has its support-base confined to Kashmir Valley, has been working in tandem with ruling party as far as the so-called Kashmir issue is concerned. For, they enjoy a favourable press. For, New Delhi is at their back and call. For, there is hardly any political party in the country which does not make common cause with the otherwise very powerful community of Kashmiri Muslims. Even our Shankracharyas go to Srinagar, meet the extremists and pro-Pakistanis and tell them that they share their "grief and agony". Only the other day Shankracharya of Puri met with Geelani, Mirwaiz and Yasin Malik, discussed with them the situation in Kashmir, listened to their anti-India views and invited the so-called victims of the Indian State to visit Puri to share views with the people there. Almost all the Indian commentators and opinion-makers are with them. They have been since long urging New Delhi to undertake measures calculated to end "alienation of Kashmiri Muslims", notwithstanding the fact that Kashmir has witnessed all round development on an unprecedented scale during the last 22 years or so and yet this anti-India campaign. Who, then, has suffered? Obviously, the minority Kashmiri Hindus. They were hounded out of Kashmir in early 1990. Their houses were burnt down. Their business establishments were ransacked. Their orchards and lands were confiscated. Their religious places were desecrated and many of them were burnt down. Many a Kashmiri Hindu were tortured, lynched and murdered in cold-blood. Even the poor women were not spared. Certain religious places were used to frighten the hapless and abandoned Kashmiri Hindus and they were frightened so that they quit the Muslim Valley and live in the "land of Kafirs". They were contemptuously dismissed as "fifth columnists" or "Indian agents". They were confronted with a choice between migration and anti-India crusade. One can write books on the atrocities committed on the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus. Just one line would be enough to describe the life of the Kashmiri Hindus: Kashmiri Hindus have become refugees in their own country and the Indian state has abandoned them and similar other nationalist constituencies in the state. It is a matter of regret that no human rights activist and no India or foreign-based think-tank speaks a word for the persecuted and hounded out Kashmiri Hindu community. They want to go back to their homes and hearths, but they cannot because they are unwilling to subscribe to the ideology of Kashmiri leadership. The gravity of the situation in Kashmir could be gauged from the fact that even New Delhi feels that the displaced Kashmiri Hindus cannot be resettled in the houses they left behind in early 1990. Significantly, even those Kashmiri Hindus who have been hobnobbing with those who were responsible for the exodus of their community are mortally afraid of returning to their original homes. They are unwilling to return to Kashmir. What is surprising is the fact that the displaced Kashmiri Hindus have gone dormant, instead of countering the ongoing mischievous propaganda. They had done a great job between 1990 and 1995 in and outside India by exposing the Kashmiri leadership. There are many many Kashmiri Hindus who wish their organizations like Panun Kashmir to do what they did during those five years to project the case of the community they represented. There is consensus among them that time has come to give a "radical orientation to the return-to-Kashmir-movement", which, they feel, "have become very weak over the period". Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx |
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