Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Feb 14: Panun Kashmir (PK) while detailing about the January which was observed as Holocaust month appealed the community to be proud of its legacy and spirit of resilience. It said genocide and ethnic cleansing has stood as one factor alone inflicting miseries on mankind over centuries. Millions have perished in barbaric acts of persecution and millions suffered forced exodus from their natural habitat.
Jews are the living example of this trait who have survived genocides and persecution for nearly 1700 years. Today, as we speak Jews are a force to reckon with.
It said, while we talk about Jews, it is pertinent to talk about another persecuted community of Kashmir valley – the Hindus of Kashmir generally known as Kashmiri Pandits. Imagine the fate of a community having a civilizational continuity of more than 5000 years undergoing perpetual exile attributed to force.
Dr Ajay Chrungoo, chairman, P K in one of the episodes towards the culmination of month long commemoration genocides and perpetual exoduses have crumbled the mightiest of all, but it is the sheer will of the Kashmiri Hindus which has not only survived them but excelled the community into new horizons. Creation of PK, he said is an impending necessity not for Kashmiri Hindus alone, but for the survival of India as a unit. PK is a foothold to take this war back to enemy and safeguard the Himalayas for lasting territorial integrity of this nation.
It said the seventh exodus of Kashmiri Hindus in 1989-90 saw a new wave of resilience to reclaim and revive the lost moorings and anchors of this 5000 year old civilization. Homeland Day on December 28, Holocaust Day on January 19, Martyrs Day on September 14 marks the calendar of resilience of the exiled Hindus of Kashmir. P K has emerged as a leading voice of the community in last three decades of exile on various socio political matters. Holding the baton of resistance high the political idiom of a separate Union Territory for exiled Kashmiri Pandits as envisaged in Margdarshan Resolution 1991 continues to be the most viable solution from the community’s perspective. P K over the years under the leadership of its convenor, Dr Agnishekhar and chairman, Dr Ajay Chrungoo along with its hundreds of activists has kept the political resistance alive and ensured the exile consciousness percolates to grassroots of community.
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