Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 11: Hundreds of members from minority community from Kashmir staged a protest demonstration here, today against the targeted killings of minorities living and working in the Valley.
The protestors with placards in their hands were raising slogans against the rising terrorism and selected killing of members of minority Hindu and Sikh communities in the Valley by terrorists.
They demanded immediate stop of the blood bath in Valley and protection to left over Hindus and Sikhs in Valley as well as those employees putting in rented accommodations and shifting of all package employees to Jammu.
Expressing anguish over the acute security and administrative breakdown in the Valley, they highly condemned the brutal and targeted killings of minority community members, including two schoolteachers, a prominent businessman and a hawker, a cop at Wanpoh who were recently shot dead by terrorists in Srinagar district of Kashmir.
Wearing black and white shirts and black bands, the protesters gathered outside the Press Club here and demanded the shifting of minority community employees to Jammu province in view of the compromised security scenario in Kashmir.
Stressing the need to ensure safety to the minorities, the protesters emphasised that the recent spate of targeted killings have raised grave security concerns among the minority community members living and working in the Valley, including the Prime Minister’s package employees.
The agitators said that the administration asking minority citizens not to come out of their barricaded camps in Kashmir and moving those living outside the camps to undisclosed secure locations, besides the mass exodus of serving minority employees, has exposed the utter helplessness of the authorities against the1990s-like terror wave brewing in the Valley.
The package employees termed the increasing attacks on minorities in Valley total intelligence and security lapses. They said even after the killing of a policeman in Wanpoh and razing of an ancient temple to ground at Mattan in Anantnag the authorities failed to see writing on the wall and even till date they have not made any arrangements to provide security to left out families.
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