Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 9: Panun Kashmir (PK) has expressed its satisfaction over the move of the UT Government to investigate the cases of genocidal killings of Kashmiri Hindus.
In a statement issued here, today PK president, Virender Raina said the decision to investigate the terrorist killings of hapless Kashmiri Hindus is a significant decision and demonstrates the strong will of the current dispensation to provide justice to the victims of terrorist violence in Kashmir.
He said highlighting the genocide committed against the Kashmiri Pandit community in the 1990s by Union Minister, Smriti Irani in Parliament particularly the brutal gang rape and murder of Girija Tikoo and Sarla Bhat, whose tormentors are yet not accounted for has generated a hope that all the cases of genocide and atrocities against Kashmiri Hindus would be investigated and the perpetrators brought to justice.
Addressing a meeting he said that the dastardly killing of Justice Neel Kanth Ganjoo in November 1989 at Hari Singh High Street sent shock waves amongst the Kashmiri Hindu community and the exodus started to take place. Another killing of Director Doordarshan, Lassa Koul and Sarwanand Koul Premi a well known scholar along with his son that followed broke the heart of the peaceful KP community.
He said over the last two and a half decades PK has strived hard for the creation of a special Crimes Tribunal on the pattern of Nuremberg Trials that would go into the genocide of Kashmiri Hindus and bring the perpetrators of such crimes against the humanity to justice.
Meanwhile, Kashmiri Pandit Conference (KPC) while welcoming the Government initiative said that the decision has rekindled the hopes of terrorist victims especially Kashmiri Hindus that they will get justice and the elements who were responsible for their genocide will be punished.
KPC president, Kundan Kashmiri demanded that all the cases of Kashmiri Hindus killings and massacres of Nadimarg, Sangrampora, Wandhhama, Chatisinghpora, Telvani be got investigated and the culprits be punished.
He said Pandits are waiting for over last three decades for justice and it is hoped that present Government at Centre will give justice to this hapless community.