Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 24: The United Nations Human Rights Council, which is currently engaged in its 26th session at Geneva, has placed the issues pertaining to the exiled ethnic minorities of Kashmir including their status as internally displaced persons and a homeland directly under the Indian Constitution and jurisprudence on its agenda.
According to the current schedule of the Council the debate on the issues relevant to these minorities will ensue on March 28th, 2014. The Chairman of the Council will provide quickly the necessary documents and memoranda by the aggrieved parties to the representatives of the 53 countries who presently are the members of this UN body.
The two prominent organizations namely Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum (AEHF) and Diversity-USA have furnished necessary documentation to the Council’s Chairman in support of their demands. In their documents these organizations have further highlighted the oft repeated failures of the Indian establishment towards remedying the already precarious situation, under the pressure of the political war machine of radical Islam. The Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum is an NGO enjoying special status with ECOSOC while Diversity-USA is an American think tank on minority issues deeply involved among others in projects and programs of saving and assisting the ethnic minorities of J&K.
In its communiqué the Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum has questioned the Indian establishment’s policy in designating the exiles as “Migrants” despite massive protests by the impacted communities and national and international organizations. The Forum argued that ethnic minorities did not go in to exile of their free will but were forced out as a result of ethnic cleansing, untold violence by terrorists and the uncontrolled Islamic crusade. They ran for their lives at the point of the Islamic guns. They, however, did not crossed international borders. As such they fall in the category of IDP’s under the UNHR charter and definition and that status has been denied to the victims of the Islamic Jihad. In fact India was exploiting this human misery for political ends. The Forum extended full support for creating a homeland for the exiled people.
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