Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 11: The entire displaced and victimized Kashmiri Pandit community has been deeply shocked, anguished, and alarmed over the recent sensational disclosures reportedly made regarding the horrific anti-Hindu riots of 1986 in Anantnag and other parts of Kashmir Valley.
The Kashmiri Pandit Conference (KPC), in meeting at Delhi under its president, Kundan Kashmiri, strongly urged the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir and the Government of India headed by Prime Minister and Union Home Minister to immediately order a thorough, impartial, transparent, and time-bound investigation into these explosive revelations which have once again reopened the painful wounds of the persecuted Kashmiri Hindu community.
According to reports circulating in media and public discussions, Muzaffar Shah, ANC chief, son of the then Chief Minister, late Gh. Mohammed Shah, disclosed before a local media platform in Srinagar today that nearly 170 activists belonging to National Conference ( NC) and the Congress were involved in the burning of Hindu temples and houses during the 1986 riots. As per the reported disclosure, around 125 persons were linked to Congress while approximately 45 were associated with the National Conference (NC).
Kundan Kashmiri, president KPC stated that’ such shocking and highly sensitive disclosures coming from a person directly connected to the then ruling establishment cannot and must not be ignored, diluted, or buried under political compulsions. The nation has a right to know the truth, and the victimized Kashmiri Pandit community has an even greater moral and historical right to demand justice and accountability.
He said the 1986 anti-Hindu riots were not merely incidents of mob violence. They were a dangerous and calculated precursor to the organized terror, intimidation, communal radicalization, and targeted persecution that finally culminated in the genocide-like situation and mass exodus of the indigenous Kashmiri Pandit community from Kashmir in 1986 and 1990. Temples were desecrated and burnt, Hindu homes attacked and looted, and an atmosphere of fear and insecurity was deliberately created to terrorize the minority community.
KPC demanded that the entire matter be investigated and that all individuals, organizations, political actors, separatist elements, and communal forces involved in these shameful acts be exposed before the nation, irrespective of their political status or influence.
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