Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 25: Rich tributes were paid to 23 KP martyrs by various Pandit organizations who fell to the bullets of terrorists in Wandhama village of Ganderbal district 19 years back on January 25.
The KP organizations which paid tributes to the martyrs included All State Kashmiri Pandit Conference (ASKPC) and Sampooran Kashmiri Sangathan (SKS). The ASKPC which held a meeting here today in memory of these martyrs under the chairmanship of its president advocate Ravinder Raina reiterated its demand regarding issuance of white paper to ascertain the reasons which led to the forced exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. The representatives of various KP organizations attended the meeting and paid tributes to these martyrs who were killed by terrorists on January 25, 1998.
Raina said that when entire nation was busy in preparations of celebrating 48th Republic Day, Wandhama village in Kashmir was witnessing the most gruesome and barbaric scene of deaths and those upholding the ideas of Indian Republic in Kashmir were being butchered to death by terrorists. He said ASKPC salutes to all martyrs who were massacred and it will not allow their sacrifices to go unheard.
Those who paid tributes included T K Bhat, general secretary ASKPC, C L Bhat, vice president ASKPC and other senior leaders R K Wangnoo, S K Raina, B K Mujoo, B L Handoo, Sunil Bhat and Bharat Bushan Gosani.
Speakers questioned the credibility of human rights commissions, writers, scholars, HR activists, award Vapsi Brigade and politicians of the country who claim to be champions of secularism for not pressurizing the successive Governments to expose and punish the culprits of Wandhama, Sangrampura, Chatisingpora, Telwani and Nadimarg massacres.
Sampooran Kashmiri Sangathan which held the meeting at Jagti under the leadership of Rakesh Kaul also paid rich and glowing tributes to these martyrs and demanded a probe into the killings of Pandits and reasons which led to mass exodus of the community.
The tributes were also paid by Bharat Kachroo and Rakseen Bhat other leaders of SKS.
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