Excelsior Correspondent
AHMEDABAD, June 14: A delegation of Kashmiri Pandits led by Panun Kashmir (PK) president, Ashwani Kumar Chrungoo met the Chief Minister of Gujarat, Vijaybhai Rupani today at Gandhinagar and submitted a memorandum to him.
The memorandum expressed deep concern over the situation that has forced Kashmiri Pandits to live as refugees in their own country. It said “our issues of ethnic cleansing and genocide remain unanswered till date. Despite the decision of the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) that “….acts akin to genocide have been committed against the Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley…..” all previous governments at the Centre chose to keep silent on the issue. While a number of nations in the world have constituted tribunals and special courts to try those responsible for terror and genocidal crimes, the earlier Governments took a soft state approach and allowed derailment of the due process of law.
The delegation comprised S.K.Bhan, President, Kashur Samchar, Sunil Kachru, general secretary, Kusum Kaul, vice president and Alok Bhan, youth activist.
It said with the change of guard at the Centre, the K Ps have developed confidence to appeal to the Government of India to constitute a Special Crimes Tribunal in the J&K State to go into the excesses committed against the indigenous people of Kashmir –the Kashmiri Pandits. Through the memorandum KPs appealed the CM of Gujarat to take up their cause with the Government of India and use his good offices to recommend to the Central leadership to accede to their request for constitution of the Special Crimes Tribunal.
It further demanded that all those responsible for the heinous crimes against the Pandits and other Hindu minority community members be brought to justice under the purview of the Special Crimes Tribunal sooner than later in order to ensure that the ethnically cleansed community of the Pandits is provided justice.
The memorandum further said that the displaced members of the community who migrated to the State of Gujarat have not been registered here as migrants by the administration. This has caused a number of problems to them as they constitute a good chunk throughout the State. It is appealed that these families be registered by the Government of Gujarat enabling them to address their issues of day to day survival with effectiveness and orders to this effect may be issued at the earliest.
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