Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 26: Youth for Panun Kashmir, a Youth Wing of PK held its annual meeting at Faridabad, Haryana today. The Executive Body prepared a road map with near –term, medium term and long term goals and milestones. It also reviewed the organizational structure of Youth for PK.
The Executive Body held detailed discussion for planning the proposed annual exodus day event – “29 in Exile”. Rahul Razdan, general secretary, Y4PK, explained how the 24 hour even has been conceived to ensure the community keeps alive its consciousness and the new generations of the community experience the pain that the community went through in these 29 years.
He said the programme will comprise of three broad areas. Remember the past to understand what the community has gone through, revisiting those harsh times of 1990s and appreciating the pain that the community had to endure, celebrate the present and the resilience of the community to pick up their lives even after going through a genocide and yet rebuilding through focus on future and development instead of looking for revenge and violence and reaffirming the community resolve to return to the homeland as per its geo-political aspirations.
Rahul Kaul president, Y4PK explained that as part of the “29 in Exile’’, the community members will re-live the pain of those days. The volunteers of the community will recreate the conditions of the first day of exodus with a makeshift camp of tents and live that day all over again feeling the pain of the people who witnessed the exodus.
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