Demands one place settlement
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Dec 5: The Kashmiri Pandit Fact Finding Committee on targeted killings has urged the Government that the PM package employees be relocated outside Valley or deployed/ attached in the Relief Commissioner’s Office Jammu in order to avoid further genocide/ target killings.
Releasing its report the Committee said the Government needs to enactment a Genocide Prevention Bill to punish not only the people who picked up the guns but also those who provided them the eco-system to perpetrate the genocide.
A Tribunal be constituted and Nuremberg type trials be initiated at an earliest. It said return and rehabilitation of the genocide victims has to be based upon the doctrine of non-refoulement and in accordance to the principles and guidelines laid down in resolution adopted by the General Assembly of United Nation on December 16 in 2005.
It said for one place settlement for Geo political foothold the creation of a Centrally Administered One Place Settlement for the displaced Kashmiri Pandits is needed.
The Committee said the constant threat and killings of Hindus in Kashmir forced the community, especially the frontline organistaions like Panun Kashmir (PK), Roots in Kashmir (RIK) and Youth 4 Panun Kashmir to send a three-member committee comprising of Rahul Kaul, Amit Raina and Vithal Chaudhary to Kashmir and Jammu to asses the ground situation and share its finding along with the recommendations with the community. It said during interactions with community members in Kashmir and later in Jammu it found almost all of the employees and their family members are scared and living in a constant fear.
The employees feel that they are discriminated by most of their colleagues and seniors, the employees currently stationed in Kashmir are not staying out of their own will, most of them are compelled because their children have schools and they don’t want to jeopardize their education, the report said.
The children are the worst lot. They have to live within the four walls of the house in case of a rented accommodation or within the transit camp areas, thus impacting their overall psychological health. The Government stopping salary of PM package employees has made employees economically vulnerable,. Many have liquidated their investments and some women have had to sell the jewellery to feed her family, report added.
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