After long perusal and wait, Government
of India has finally accepted the Genocide of Kashmiri Pandits during
1989-1990.
‘The Jihad which Pakistan launched in Kashmir
in 1990, to liberate Jammu and Kashmir from the Indian hold, mounted its first
attack on the Hindus in Kashmir. The terrorist assault on the Hindus in Kashmir
commenced in the fall of 1989, and by the summer of 1990, more than seven
hundred of them had been assassinated in cold blood. Most of the victims were
innocent people who lived in poverty and persecution in the Muslim dominated
constitutional organization of the State. Among those killed were people from all
section of the Hindu Society; teachers, lawyers, political activists, media
men, intellectuals, errand boys and men of small means. The massacre of the
Hindus was accompanied by a widespread campaign of intimidation and threat to
drive out the Hindus from the Kashmir province, burn their temples and
religious shrines and homes and loot their property. By the end of the year
1990, the whole community of the Hindus in the Kashmir province was driven out
of their homes and hearths’…..
(Bitter Truth by Dr. M.K.Teng and C.L.Gadoo)
During 1990, Kashmiri Samiti, Delhi, was
one of the front line organizations to face the onslaught of terrorism and
forcefully raised their voice against genocide and ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri
Pandits.
SYMPOSIUM ON HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATION IN KASHMIR
On 28th Oct. 1993 a symposium on
Terrorism in Kashmir and violation of Human Rights, was organized by Kashmiri
Samiti, Delhi, at Himachal Bhavan, Mandi House, New Delhi. During the
function, a booklet, Human Rights Violation in Kashmir, written by Dr. M.K.Teng
and C.L.Gadoo was released.
Sh. Atal Bihari Vajpayee, as the
leader of Indian delegation, personally distributed this booklet at an
important event at UNHRC session in Geneva during March 1994.
(In picture L to R) Sh.
C.L.Gadoo, Sh A.B.Vajpayee, Sh. S.L. Shakdhar, former chief election
commissioner, Dr. Hari Ohm (Jammu), Dr. M.K.Teng (Jammu).
