Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 26: Panun Kashmir, today reiterated that exiled Pandits from Valley be given internally displaced status and it will intensify struggle in this regard.
This was said by vice president of the organization, Ramesh Manwati while addressing a press conference in Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala today. He said that Government of India should recognizes that the Hindus of Kashmir have suffered genocide.
He said a permanent return of Hindus is only possible when Government of India addresses ‘Return’ as an issue of ‘Reversal of Genocide’ and not as tokenist measures, which only seek a cosmetic redressal of the problem.
He demanded that the Government of India should drop the tag of “Migrants” and instead recognizes the expelled Hindus of Kashmir as ‘internally dispalced persons’.
Expressing concern over the plight of displaced Pandits, he said that Government of India should establish extra-ordinary Constitutional measures and creates effective legal instruments to bring the perpetrators and the collaborators of the genocide of Hindus of Kashmir to justice.
Besides, Government should initiates measures for creation of a Union Territory in the North and East of River Vitasta (Jehlum) in Kashmir Valley with free flow of Indian Constitution, for the sustained and permanent rehabilitation of Kashmiri Hindus – as envisioned in ‘Margdarshan’ resolution adopted by the exiled Kashmiri Pandit community at a two-day convention in Jammu (J&K) on December 28, 1991, he said.
Manwati said return of Kashmiri Hindus to their homeland means return of India in Kashmir. Panun Kashmir, therefore, appealed to all the Patriotic and intellectual forces, including politicians and civil society members, cutting across all barriers, to rise to the occasion to ‘Save Kashmiri Pandits to Save Kashmir to Save India’.
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