Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 25: Kashmiri Pandit Conference (KPC) today on 24th years of the Wandhama massacre sought justice for all those families of Kashmiri Pandits who were killed by militants during the last 31 years of militancy in Kashmir Valley.
Kundan Kashmiri, president KPC while addressing his activists today at New Delhi demanded that a thorough probe be conducted into all killings of Kashmiri Pandits in particular to three major massacres of Wandhama, Nadimarg and Sangrampura, should be booked without any further delay and punish those who were responsible for the gruesome killings of Kashmiri Pandits. This would be the real tribute to the Kashmiri Pandits who have been killed during the period of militancy.
The KPC president, while recalling the incident said that during the intervening night of January 24 and 25, 1998 around a big group of militants descended on village Wandhama, Ganderbal and lined up Kashmiri Pandits and killed all the 23 members of minority community. These included ten males, nine females and four children adding that even infants were not spared.
He said it is quite perplexing that every case pertaining to the Kashmiri Pandit killings in Kashmir has been closed for want of evidence and the perpetrators remain unidentified and it is unfortunate that the investigations seems to have deliberately sabotaged to let culprits go unpunished and roam free. He further stated that various FIRs were filed in different police stations regarding killing of Kashmiri Pandits, but till date not a single killer has so far been arrested for killing of hundreds of innocent Kashmiri Pandits
It is disgusting that neither the successive governments nor any civil society/human-rights fora of Kashmir Valley took up these killings. On the other hand the separatist leadership speaks about return and rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley. He appealed to all international bodies to take a moral stand on Kashmiri Pandit killings and seeks to bring all perpetrators of the massacre of Kashmiri Pandits to books.
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