Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMMU, June 16: Internally displaced Kashmiri Pandits have approached the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva for intervention in the matter of their return and rehabilitation back in the Valley.
Seeking intervention of UNHRC, Dr Kashinath Pandits, secretary general of displaced KPs Organisation said in recent weeks the return of displaced Pandits has become a matter of controversy because after the Union Government indicated it was thinking of creating a township for them, people in the Valley protested against the move and observed one day complete strike on the call of local leaders. Government retracted its steps and confusing and contradictory statements were issued. The State government indicated that the Pandits would resettle in their original homes when they come back. Maximum of their homes have been destroyed and vandalized, he added.
Apprehensive that conditions may be created to force them to return in insecure and unsafe circumstances, the internally displaced people appealed the UNHRC to intervene and dissuade the Government of India and the State government of J&K from forcing them to return to places against their free will and settle them collectively and compositely so that their political rights also accrue to them in a democratic and secular dispensation.
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