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| Won't return to Valley: Migrant employees | | Failure of Delhi | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, July 15: Kashmir yet again witnessed another exodus of frightened, hapless and abandoned Kashmir migrants from the Valley. "Over 100 Kashmiri migrants" - almost all government employees - fled from transit accommodation in Haal (Pulwama), Baramulla and Kupwara and Kashmiri Pandit employee colonies at Vessu and Mattan in Anantnag, reached Jammu the other day and held protest demonstration at Relief Commissioner's office Jammu.
They directed their anger not only towards the PDP-BJP coalition government in J&K but also towards the Narendra Modi government at the centre and their specific charge against them was that they didn't protect the unprotected KPs from radical elements in the Valley, who left no stone unturned to frighten them and force them to quit Kashmir like they had done in 1990 to cause wholesale migration of Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley. Denouncing the state government and the Union Government and chanting anti-government slogans, they urged the authorities to immediately evacuate the remaining Kashmiri migrant employees living in transit accommodation in various parts of the Valley, saying no KPs wanted to live in Kashmir.
"We want all Kashmiri Pandit employees be brought back to Jammu by the government from trouble-torn Kashmir as their families are worried," a Kashmiri employee, who reached Jammu the other day after escaping the fanatics' attack, was quoted as saying. The outraged and visibly frightened Kashmiri migrant employees stated that they will not return to the Valley "as they had faced stone-pelting attacks repeatedly". Some of them went to the extent of saying that "We will not join the jobs in Kashmir as we have faced intimidation threats and stone-throwing repeatedly". One of them was Sunita from Haal. "How long can we tolerate? Have we done any mistake for volunteering to go to Kashmir, to serve the Kashmir society, which is out to target us at this time," according to agencies, said another Kashmiri migrant employee of Vessu camp.
Meanwhile, the All Party Migrant Coordination Committee (APMCC) also charged the government with "trying to muzzle the voice of the Pandits against the mob attacks on minority enclaves in the Valley during the ongoing turmoil" . It, according to a report, accused the government of "deliberately hiding the facts about the attacks on minority enclaves in Kashmir, which also includes a stone-throwing incident on a temple at Kakran, Kulgam".
The latest exodus of Kashmiri migrants from the Valley cannot be compared with the 1990 migration. For, that time the Kashmiri Pandits were putting up in their own respective houses in different parts of the Valley. This time around the situation was completely different: they had been putting up in specially set up transit camps. The fact that over 100 Kashmiri Pandit employees abandoned Kashmir and that they urged the authorities to evacuate the remaining ones from different parts of the Valley indicates two things. One, the situation the Kashmiri Pandits are not wanted in the Valley. The other is the complete failure of the authorities in New Delhi to create a situation in the Valley that isolates and bring to justice anti-state and anti-Kashmiri migrant elements.
The latest exodus of Kashmiri migrants has serious implications and it is time for the policy-planners in New Delhi to launch a relentless campaign across the globe to expose the true nature of the ongoing secessionist movement in the Valley. |
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