Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 17: Panun Kashmir (PK) today made it clear to the powers that it will make no compromise on the two basic issues of the lakhs of displaced Pandits living as refugees in their own country for last 36 years and demanded recognition and reparation of the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus by immediate enactment of PK’s Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Bill and creation of separate homeland with UT status within Kashmir Valley.
This was stated by PK general secretary, Kuldeep Raina while addressing the meeting of the organisation here today.
He said during the community meet in connection with observance of World Refugee Day on June 20 PK will forcefully press these demands as the KPs who are the largest genocide victims after partition of India in 1947 are facing constant neglect.
The event will serve as a vital platform for the exiled community to come together and collectively address the unresolved crisis of their displacement, genocide, and demand for a just political solution., Raina added.
The Community Meet will bring together a cross-section of Kashmiri Pandit society, community elders, youth, civil society leaders, legal experts, and activists, to deliberate on critical current affairs and the existential challenges faced by the community, he said.
Raina stated, “The fact that our genocide remains unrecognized after more than three decades is not merely a denial of justice, it is an erasure of truth. On World Refugee Day, while the global conscience discusses the plight of displaced populations, we must remind the nation that the longest internal displacement in post-Independence India continues without acknowledgment or redress.”
At the center of the discussions will be PK’s long-standing demand for the recognition and reparation of the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus, the immediate enactment of the Panun Kashmir Genocide and Atrocities Prevention Bill, and the creation of a separate homeland, Panun Kashmir, with Union Territory status, to be carved out to the east and north of the Vitasta (Jhelum) in Kashmir.
“These demands are not symbolic,” Raina said. “They are essential for ensuring non-recurrence of genocide and safeguarding our cultural and civilizational identity. We categorically reject any model of return that subjects us to the same insecurities we fled from. The only framework acceptable for our dignified and permanent rehabilitation is the Margdarshan Resolution of 1991.”
The Margdarshan Resolution, envisioned the establishment of a separate homeland for Kashmiri Hindus within the Union of India, where they could live with dignity, freedom, and full constitutional rights.
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