Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 9: Youth 4 Panun Kashmir (Y4PK) has strongly condemned and outrightly rejected the statement submitted by the Jammu and Kashmir Council for Human Rights (JKCHR) at the 61st Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council, calling it a fraudulent travesty of truth and a disgraceful attempt to whitewash the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus from their homeland.
The statement presented by JKCHR attempts to portray the forced exodus of Kashmiri Hindus merely as a question of “reintegration” and “communal reconciliation,” while dismissing the legitimate demand of the displaced community for security and political safeguards as “segregated settlement schemes.” Y4 PK stated that this narrative is not only historically false but morally outrageous, because it deliberately ignores the brutal reality that forced hundreds of thousands of Kashmiri Hindus to flee their ancestral homeland in 1990.
Y4PK reminded JKCHR and the international community that the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) of India itself officially described the exodus of Kashmiri Hindus as “akin to genocide.” The NHRC recorded that Kashmiri Pandits were subjected to targeted killings, threats, intimidation from mosque loudspeakers, religious persecution, and systematic violence that forced them into exile. Any attempt to dilute this reality or portray the genocide as a simple “displacement” is therefore a gross falsification of historical truth and an insult to the victims of one of the most brutal episodes of religious cleansing in modern India.
Reacting sharply, Rahul Kaul, chairman of the Apex Committee of Y4PK, stated, “The document submitted by JKCHR at the UNHRC is nothing but a travesty. It attempts to erase the brutal history of the Kashmiri Hindu genocide and replace it with a politically convenient narrative of reconciliation without justice. KPs did not migrate voluntarily, they were driven out through terror, killings, and open Islamist threats. To now lecture the victims about reintegration without acknowledging the genocide is intellectually dishonest and morally repugnant, “he added.
Vithal Chowdhary, president of Y4PK, said that the document represents a dangerous inversion of victim and perpetrator narratives.
Y4PK declared that the JKCHR statement is bogus, misleading, and deeply irresponsible.
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