Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 24: Panun Kashmir has strongly condemned the recent remarks made by Rouble Nagi, Member of the National Commission for Minorities, during her press conference in Srinagar.
In a statement issued by Panun Kashmir general secretary, Kuldeep Raina, the organization termed her remarks as an “insult to the genocide-stricken community” and an “attempt to consolidate the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits.”
Raina minced no words in criticizing Nagi’s assertion that the return of Kashmiri Pandits to the Valley is a matter of “choice.” “The exodus of Kashmiri Pandits was not a choice, it was forced upon us by the brutal genocide and terrorism that plagued the Valley in 1990. To portray our return as a matter of choice trivializes the trauma, terror, and displacement that we have endured for over three decades,” he said.
Panun Kashmir lashed out at Nagi’s claim that “there is no negative attitude among the people of Kashmir towards the migrants,” labelling it as a gross misrepresentation of ground realities. Raina questioned whether Nagi had engaged with the victims of targeted killings or assessed the continued glorification of terrorists and hate propaganda in sections of Kashmiri society. “Peace cannot be measured merely by a reduction in killings. True peace comes from justice, accountability, and trust-none of which have been addressed,” he added.
The organization also took strong exception to Nagi’s suggestion that the events of 1990 should be “forgotten.” Raina called it an affront to the memory of genocide victims and warned that forgetting the past without justice would pave the way for history to repeat itself.
“If the holocaust cannot be forgotten, if partition cannot be forgotten, then why should the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits be erased for convenience? Forgetting without justice is nothing but the erasure of truth and the consolidation of genocide,” he said.
“This is not just a battle for justice; it is a fight for survival, identity, and the right to exist as Kashmiri Hindus on our own land,” Raina added.
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