Excelsior Correspondent
Srinagar, June 20: All Minority Employees Association Kashmir (AMEAK) today said that the Government needs to acknowledge the threat to their lives and relocate them to safer places outside the Valley.
Addressing a press conference in Sheikpora, Budgam, the members of the AMEAK said that bullets have pierced them deeply, and have killed the “notion of the existence of being in us; we have been silenced forever in workplaces, streets, and homes.”
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They said that they have been demanding the Government of India intervene and save their future and families from the claws of the brute forces “who are searching us to count on one more number in our genocide.”
“The Government must acknowledge the threat to our lives and relocate us to safer places outside the Valley as there needs to be a conducive and fearless environment to live beyond workplaces as well,” the members of the AMEAK said during the press conference.
They said that the Government is mitigating the issues of transfers, parallel seniority, and likes within the valley on a fast track which was never the case during the last 12 years.
“Government is transferring the employees from far off places to places within a 3 km radius from the headquarters. This is not the solution to the problem because the penetration of the killers is deep and soft targets can be hit anywhere, nevertheless to say ML Bindroo, was shot a few meters away from highly secured District Police Office Shergarhi, Srinagar while Rahul Bhat was killed in tehsil office, Chadoora,” they said.
They said that the killings have stopped for time being because of two reasons, which they said, are: “the majority of us have been forced to leave the valley to save their families while a handful of us left in the valley due to some concerns have not ventured out of their transit accommodations from last one month. Out of 5000 employees, 3800 are still living in rented accommodations without any security.”
AMEAK requested the UT administration as well as the central Government to shift them outside the valley till the time the situation returns to normalcy in Kashmir
“If the Government gives us in writing that there will not be any killing of any minority employee here and what type of security arrangements and the policies they have framed for us after the spurt in our killings, we will resume the duties as per their discretion,” they said.
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