Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Mar, 28: In light of the national public euphoria and debate created by the release of The Kashmir Files and bringing international spotlight on the plight of Kashmiri Pandits with respect to their mass exodus during the dark night on January 20, 1990 from the Kashmir, AIKS (All India Kashmiri Samaj) held a community meet here to debate the issue threadbare and evolve a collective community response to the situation to demand a punitive action against the culprits and perpetrators of the crimes against humanity.
The meeting, which was presided over by AIKS president, Dr. Ramesh Raina was attended by a large number of community leaders, from all walks of life from all over India, demanding the reversal of genocide and punishment under genocide and crimes against humanity laws as an initial step towards meaningful CBMs and way forward for the restitution, return and rehabilitation of the exiled community to Valley.
Dr. Ramesh Raina president AIKS,
said that truth ultimately triumphs, it may take time to unravel itself, but it does come out and prevail, that our authentic story was never allowed to be brought to light but all attempts made to be buried under the debris of history. He added that wheels of natural justice though move slowly but grind heavily.
He said in our case too it has been a protracted campaign for AIKS and its affiliate organizations to keep the issue alive and bring to the fore the atrocities inflicted on the community through brute and barbaric means and methods. He expressed his gratitude to VivekAgnihotri, his team and all the Kashmiri Pandit organizations both within India and abroad for having unraveled the true picture and brought the facts as they were before the national and international audiences and awakening the conscience of a mass of humanity across the globe about the pain this community has gone through not only on account of gory incidents in Valley but continued political apathy and missing media space for our miseries, adding that the artistic creativity had shown that all.
He continued that with this movie a new national narrative is gaining momentum to bring the culprits of KP genocide to justice by appointing a Commission of Inquiry to probe the circumstances under which KP’s were forced to flee following their large scale killings.
Sudhir Sopory, M. L. Malla, Ramesh Bamzai, Ms. Geeta Bamzai, young social activists India4 Kashmir, AlkaLahori and Manorama Bakhshi attended the meet. VinodPandita the anchor of the programme gave a detailed account of the AIKS future activities.
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