PK concern over continued apathy of the displaced Pandits

Jammu, December 10 (Scoop News) –Panun Kashmir (PK), a faction seeking a separate homeland for Kashmiri Pandits, on Saturday has expressed grave  concern over the continued neglect and apathy of the displaced Kashmiri Pandit community and other marginalized sections of the society in the J&K state.  

Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, President, Panun Kashmir said the rhetoric of politicians and political parties on the issue of settlement of Kashmiri Pandits cannot put the real issues of ethnic cleansing, genocide and exodus under the carpet. These issues will continue to determine the political future of the community.

Ashwani Kumar was addressing the activists in a meeting at its headquarters in Jammu in connection with the Human Rights Day today. The programme was presided over by Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, President, Panun Kashmir. The meeting among others was attended by Virender Raina, National Spokesperson, Upinder Kaul, General Secretary, Kamal Bagati, Virender Kaul, N.M.Gadroo, Vijay Qazi and Sameer Bhat.

Ashwani Chrungoo accused the governments at the Centre and the State of being “indifferent” to the Pandits . He said that even after twenty one years of the mass exodus, the members of the displaced Kashmiri Pandit community continue to live as refugees in their own country. The powers that be are only concerned about like lifting of AFSPA, a purely populist measure meant to please a small minority of secessionists in Kashmir .

Virender Raina said that the final resolutions passed at the Fai connected seminars were always based on anti-India rhetoric and biased in favour of Pakistan . It is ironic that despite the presence of so many leading intellectuals from India , the real victims of human rights violations at the hands of terrorists in the Jammu and Kashmir state were not even mentioned in their so-called reports. Time has come to make a paradigm shift regarding various dimensions of the human rights movement in India that would focus on the plight of the victims rather than the perpetrators of the crimes against humanity. It is unfortunate that the human rights cover has been misused to castigate the security forces and bail out the perpetrators of terror. On the occasion of World Human Rights Day, there is a need to protect the human rights of the victims of terrorism and not to raise the bogey of human rights violations of the perpetrators of heinous crimes against humanity. 

A Resolution was unanimously adopted in the meeting which said that Panun Kashmir would continue, in its efforts, to highlight the violations of the human rights of the Kashmiri Pandits and other victims of terrorism in J&K state in all available forums in India and abroad.   

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