URGENT NEED FOR REVERSAL OF GENOCIDE OF KASHMIRI PANDITS (Part 1)

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).).