Early Times Report
JAMMU, Jan 18: On the commemoration of 29th Nishkasan Diwas (Holocaust) day of Kahmiri Pandits, Pannun Kashmir reiterated its demand for a separate Homeland for Kashmiri Pandits to preserve and protect its ethnicity, culture and traditions, as per margdarshan resolution of 1991.
This was announced by Ravinder Jalali Convenor of Pannun Kashmir in a meeting held today to mark 29th anniversary of NISHKASAN DAY, the day KPs were hounded out of their homes and hearths. Vijay Bhat, President Panun Kashmir while addressing the party workers said that it was the day when ethnic cleansing and genocide of our community began on a large and planned scale. 19th January is being observed as Holocaust Day (Nishkasan Day) every year by the community, said Vijay Bhat. It was on this day in 1990 when, throughout the day, Jihadists use public address systems at mosques all over valley to exhort people to defy curfew and take to the streets. Masked men, firing from their Kalashnikovs, march up and down, terrorising Pandits who, by then, have locked themselves in their homes. As evening falls, the exhortations become louder and shriller. Taped slogans were repeatedly played the whole night from mosques: which was aimed to throw peace loving and minuscule minority out of valley. It was unanimously resolved to fight tooth and nail to achieve the goal without any compromise. The party also took the Govt. to task for deliberating delaying the process of resettlement of KPs in state, which only favours the separatists and those who are bent upon opposing our return to Valley, said Vijay Bhat. He warned Govt. both at the centre and as well as state, not to test the patience of KPs and appealed for early settlement of hapless community failing which community will be compelled to take such steps which may not be palatable to them. It was reiterated that no less than separate Homeland, as per Margdarshan resolution of 1991, is acceptable to Kashmiri Pandits.
"The separatists and mainstream politicians are opposing the process of rehabilitating KPs fearing it as an attempt aimed to change demography of the Valley which speaks of their communal mindset and the tragedy is that Centre is falling prey to their whims and fancies. How a few lakhs of KPs could change the demography of Kashmir, where more than 90% of population are Muslims," said Ravinder Jalali. |
