‘Locals providing support to killers’
Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, Apr 15: Kashmiri Pandit Sangarsh Samiti (KPSS) today condemned the issuance of threat letters and the killing of Kashmiri Pandits / Kashmiri Hindus living in the Kashmir Valley.
“The situation in Kashmir Valley is returning to 1990. In 1990, killings lists were circulated in mosques and in 2022 these lists are circulated on the internet and social media, just modus operandi has changed but the mentality is the same as what we minorities faced in the early 1990s,” KPSS said.
KPSS said that some vicious and ill-minded persons who are using the cover of a particular religion are hell-bent on the annihilation of the religious minorities living in the Kashmir Valley.
“As these kinds of heinous and barbaric acts are not possible without logistic support from the local population and the role of the Kashmiri Society, though small in number, cannot be outrightly absolved for the targeted crimes happening against Kashmiri Pandits / Kashmiri Hindus living in Kashmir Valley,” KPSS said.
It went on to say that every gunman known or unknown is a local person and their helping OGWs are also from our own Kashmiri Society who create fake trust with religious minorities to collect details and help these gunmen to kill Kashmiri Pandits / Kashmiri Hindus living in Kashmir Valley.
“In 1990, religious minorities were backstabbed and forced to leave Kashmir Valley by creating a hostile environment, time and again similar condition is created in 2022 to force Kashmiri Pandits / Kashmiri Hindus to leave Kashmir Valley.”
KPSS said that these persons were always small in number but the collective silence maintained by the rest creates trust deficits with never-ending voids between the communities.
It said that the safety of minorities is at stake and the government is least bothered by the situation.
“This clearly shows either the Administration is not interested in saving minorities or they are incompetent to handle the situation. In both cases, Kashmir is pushed into the darkness that engulfed this place during the early 1990s.”
Samiti has appealed to all members of Kashmiri Society to come clean on the issue and respond with an honest answer about whether they want the Kashmiri Pandits / Kashmiri Hindus who continued to live in Kashmir Valley during all these odd years to live in Kashmir Valley or not, “as the logistic support provided to these killers of humanity is provided by the locals only.”
Rakesh Handoo working president and National Spokesman JKNUF also condemned.
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