Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 1: Panun Kashmir (PK) Chairman, Dr Ajay Chrungoo today urged the Government of India to immediately enact the Panun Kashmir Genocide and Atrocities Prevention and Punishment Bill, a comprehensive legislative proposal developed by the organization.
In a statement issued here, today he said “This Bill provides the much-needed legal architecture for recognizing the genocide, ensuring accountability, and institutionalizing measures for rehabilitation and non-repetition. Its enactment is essential not only for justice but for upholding India’s commitment to Constitutional morality and the rule of law,” Dr. Chrungoo stated.
Reiterating PK’s foundational demand, Dr. Chrungoo called for the establishment of a separate Union Territory East and North of the Jhelum river, where Kashmiri Hindus can rebuild their civilizational life under Constitutional and political protection. “This is not a symbolic aspiration; it is the only viable framework for reversing the genocide and ensuring the future of a community that has been systematically erased from its homeland.”
In response to the recent incident in Pulwama district of Kashmir, Dr. Chrungoo, contextualized the development as a manifestation of ongoing structural violence against a displaced and vulnerable population, cautioning that such incidents must not be interpreted in isolation or reduced to matters of personal choice.
“Let us not reduce this incident to the personal,” Dr. Chrungoo asserted. “As if it occurred in a vacuum, detached from the historical and political landscape in which the Kashmiri Hindu genocide unfolded. To do so would be a disservice not just to the truth, but to the future of the entire community.”
He emphasized that the Kashmiri Hindu community continues to endure a state of attritional violence, psychological, cultural, and existential in nature, despite the absence of overt physical aggression. “Our wounds remain unacknowledged. Our displacement is not over, it has merely been normalized. The few among us who stayed behind or returned do so not in freedom, but in conditions that demand silence, submission, and gradual loss of identity,” he said.
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