Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 20: On International Refugee Day, a meeting of SOS International – an organization for PoK DPs held under the leadership of its chairman Rajiv Chuni to ascertain the rights of refugees and to access the prevailing situations of displaced persons of Pak occupied Kashmir, besides to take a overall review of the plights and what could be done for them as per the International refugee law.
While addressing the meeting, Chuni said that it is very ironically and unfortunate on the part of Government that after seven decades of being displaced from their native places the PoK DPs are still languishing in unhygienic 39 camps. He said that no one wants to be become refugee and becoming a refugee is very painful. He said that other refugees of the world have been settled and supported by the UN Refugee Commission but in case of PoK DPs who were uprooted from their native places seven decades earlier are still residing in camps, which is the biggest tragedy and till today there is no planning from the Government side to settle them.
He described that although India is the member of UN but the India is not signatory to UN Refugee Law so the UN Refugee Commission cannot directly help the PoK DPs and rehabilitate. “If India had been the signatory of UN Refugee Commission then they have directly helped and rehabilitated us,” Chuni added.
He said that it is almost now the third generation, which is going to sail on the same boat as our two generations have suffered and died and now it is the turn of the third generation to meet with the same fate.
“Not to talk of the contesting election in PoK but no any member of PoK DPs can cross the LoC even to see his/her own house”, he added.
He said PoK DPs must be provided some sops till the final settlement made by the government.
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