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| Fear psychosis among minorities in Valley owing to anonymous letters | | | Pardeep Singh
EARLY TIMES REPORT
Jammu, Aug 22:
The fear psychosis is a traumatic experience for any human being, he can endure everything but he can’t resist psychological vandalism.
Minority communities in particular easily fall prey to such phobia because being less in numbers; they always live in an insecure atmosphere.
And when they are terrorized by anti-social elements around them, the minorities are bound to get frightened.
In the ongoing turmoil in Kashmir from past two months, the fear psychosis is looming large over thousands of minorities dwelling in Kashmir, where they have been harassed and humiliated by handful of miscreants from majority community, compelling them to evacuate.
The communal facade came to lime light at that time when some miscreants from majority community threw anonymous letters in the Gurudwara’s and residential houses aiming to create panic among minorities, the letter was so dreadful that it made some minority families to pull up socks and migrate to Jammu.
The All Party Sikh Coordination Committee (ASCC) has alleged that several community members have received these letters.
The incident of threatening is not committed only once it was repeated thrice and more in different areas, which made minorities to think for their lives.
According to some migrated minority members in Jammu, the atmosphere of valley is altogether different and it contradicts its adage of century’s long brotherhood and communal harmony. They said that during late nights, youth from the area pelt stones on their shelters and shout Pro-Islamic slogans which make them prey to psychosomatic.
Though a delegation of minorities has put forth this incident before, Hurriyat hawk, Syed Ali Shah Geelani and other separatist figures in Valley but the response from their side was nothing more than mere eye wash, “this is our duty to save minorities dwelling in Kashmir as Islam teaches, this is handiwork of armed forces to create rift between two communities,” these were the words of Geelani, who some days back expressed distress over the Tral incident were some crooks chopped off hair of Sikh boy and in his statement he has reassured Sikhs, saying they should not feel threatened and ignore the "fake letters". He has assured the community that nobody would force them to join the protests.
As per newspaper reports moderate Hurriyat Conference chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq has blamed the "anti-movement" agencies for writing threatening letters to the Sikh community of the Valley and assured all minority groups that the majority community would make such "attempts" unsuccessful. “I assure all the communities especially the Sikhs that Kashmiri Muslims will always back them and make such attempts unsuccessful in a united manner," Mirwaiz said.
Much before this the Dukhtaraan-e-Millat chairperson and radical separatist leader, Asiya Andrabi expressed disappointed over the reports that two delegations of the Hindus and the Sikhs had called on the Hurriyat (G) Chairman, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, and "wept bitterly" over the sense of their insecurity, Dukhtaraan chief said that it had hurt the sentiments of the majority community in Kashmir.
But in her next edition of statement she said that we are not empowered to provide safety to minorities, “how could we extend protection to minorities when we are ourselves being oppressed by Indian forces”.
Amid hollow claims of government, forged sympathies of separatists and unprecedented threatening letters, the Sikhs are at the grinding end and are raising question whether government is serious to provide them security or they have to leave like exodus of Pandits in 1990.
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