Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 4: Panun Kashmir (PK) today said that it is high time for UNHRC to take a corrective position regarding the human rights situation in Jammu and Kashmir State and ask the perpetrators of crimes against humanity supported by Pakistan to wind up their terror infrastructure forthwith.
In a memorandum submitted to the Universal Periodic Review Group of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) at Geneva on India reporting through the United Nations Office in New Delhi today the PK said that it is also expected that the ongoing special session on India reporting takes cognisance of the plight of the indigenous people of Kashmir the Kashmiri Pandits and raises their issue at an appropriate level.
The memorandum was submitted by a delegation of PK included Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo, its president, and Utpal Kaul, its senior leader.
The memorandum reminded the UNHRC and the Universal Periodic Review Group of the words of the great Nobel laureate Alexander Solzehnistin “that in keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise again a thousand fold in future.
The memorandum said while there is a big agenda for discussion in the meeting regarding India reporting, we take this opportunity to bring to UNHRC notice our plight under the category -“attack on religious minorities” and “human rights violations” in our native place. It said the members of the community of Kashmiri Pandits continue to live as refugees in their own country for the last 28 years. This community, has been the victim of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Kashmir. Mass exodus was inflicted upon the members of the community in 1989-90 by the Pakistan sponsored and guided terrorists. The theocratic and extremist goals of the fundamentalist and terrorist organizations of the Kashmir Valley shunted seven hundred thousands of Kashmiri Pandits into exile. Their men were killed, women raped and brutally murdered, hundreds of their places of worship were destroyed while thousands of their houses were gutted in fire by the fundamentalist and secessionist forces in the Valley of Kashmir. The rabid communal campaign against, the Kashmiri Pandits, is, unfortunately, unabated till date.
It said while UNHRC has been fed with a one sided story of the Kashmir situation, therefore, it is important to present before you the other side of the picture as well.
The PK also apprised the UNHRC about the statements and observations of the credible human rights bodies including NHRC, Amnesty International, US Committee for refugees, regarding the Human rights violations of the Kashmiri Pandits.
The memorandum said the terror groups inspired by religious extremism also made non-Muslims particularly the minority Hindus targets in the hilly areas of Jammu region and conducted a large number of organised massacres there. A large chunk of these hapless Hindus also continue to live as displaced people outside their historical habitat.
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