R P Singh’s letter to Shah
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 8: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) today demanded appointment of a Commission of Inquiry to probe the mass exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from Valley.
In this regard party national spokesperson, R P Singh has written a letter to Union Home Minister, Amit Shah and turned his attention to the report of National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India which has admitted that the systematic and planned ethnic cleansing inflicted on Kashmiri Pandits by terrorists forced them to exit their homeland. The Commission termed these acts akin to genocide, the letter added.
R P Singh said in all fairness, the Government must order a Commission of Inquiry to investigate the domestic forces behind this genocide so that the nation must know the true face of the so-called secular main stream political parties of Kashmir.
Demanding an immediate action in the matter, Singh said it should not be delayed since those who were eye witness to the sordid and gory saga may not be available after a few years and it may be too late to get a first hand eye witness account by any Commission.
He said after the national Conference (NC) and Congress coalition Government resigned under the pressure of militants in 1990, the armed youth almost ruled the lawless Valley of Kashmir. The then Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah went to London to play golf and his dismissed colleagues in the Council of Ministry hid their heads in Jammu where they illegally occupied Government bungalows and some of them entered into secret liaisons with the Kashmiri insurgency leadership. A series of massacres followed there after. The massacres of Sangrampura, Wandhama, Chatisinghpora and Nadimarg are a few to be named, he added.
The BJP leader, while holding the NC responsible for the happenings in the Valley at that time alleged that the then Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah acted irresponsibly. He said after returning as CM in November 1987 and remaining in chair up to January 19, 1990 the day when he resigned and left for London leaving the Valley in turmoil and in the hands of Jehadi terrorists on whom his Government failed to keep a check which even may be deliberately. The BJP leader in his letter further alleged that two months before the killing of veteran BJP leader, Tika Lal Taploo, Dr Abdullah had ordered the release of a number of Kashmiri Muslim youth from Srinagar jails who were alleged to have crossed the Line of Control (LoC) and received training in terrorist camps in Muzaffarabad -the Capital of Pakistan occupied Jammu Kashmir (PoJK).
The BJP leader said that these militants were the early activists of Muslim United Front (MUF) and were charged with sedition against the State. The top four among them were Hamid Sheikh, Ashraf Wani, Javed Mir and Yasin Malik. These four were the pioneers of the armed insurgency in the Valley with the assignment to begin with decimation of the Pandit community, he added.
Singh said the killing of Tika Lal Taploo a prominent lawyer of Srinagar on September 14, 1989 set off a series of target killings of KP leaders by the trigger happy terrorists who used to celebrate counting the heads killed. This dance of death continued to the extent that a killer terrorist confessed on local TV channels that he had killed KPs in double digits and has lost the exact count, Singh added.
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