Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 6: Reiterating its demand for grant of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) status to Kashmiri Pandits leacing an exiled life for last 26 eyars outside their homeland Kashmir, Asian European Human Rights Council (AEHRC) has approached the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) in this regard.
It strongly demanded that the Government of India should formally declare the community as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in accordance with the proper definition scripted in the UNHRC documentation.
A memorandum in this regard was submitted to UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), by Asian European Human Rights Council (AEHRC) an NGO led by Dr K N Pandita. It stated that the UNHRC emphasize upon the Government of India to rehabilitate the Kashmiri Pandit IDPS back in their homeland in concentration wherever and in whatever manner they feel satisfied without refoulment.
Dr K N Pandita who is a well known scholar and secretary general of the organization submitted the memorandum on behalf of the NGO. It said the Government of India failed to provide security of life and property to the religious minority of Kashmiri Pandits in the face of externally sponsored religion-based terrorism in 1990. This is tantamount to abuse of the Constitution of India which promises that Indian State will uphold the right to life of its citizens, the memorandum added.
It said the Government of India has knowingly refused to give these victims of ethnic cleansing their proper nomenclature of Internally Displaced Persons and, instead, calls them “Kashmiri migrants” which is blatant distortion of history and denial of rights. The Government of India has failed to take a bold and humanistic step of concentrated rehabilitation of the displaced community in their homeland and it has succumbed to majority pressure because of vote bank politics and, in the process, has compromised with the violation of the rights of the Kashmiri Pandit IDPs, it added.
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