Yesterday (3rd May’2015), displaced Kashmiri
Pandits staged a protest at Jantar
Mantar demanding immediate steps for their rehabilitation and return to their
homeland and prosecution of all those involved in the killing of Kashmiri
Pandits in the 1990s by reopening the cases. They have been forced to stage the
protest after Hurriyat Conference and the political parties in Kashmir are
opposing a township planned by the Modi led Central Govt in Kashmir valley for
resettlement of the Pandits.
25 years ago in January 1990,
death was what a whole community of about 500,000 Hindu Pandit population faced
and hundreds of them were killed, hounded and eventually the whole
community was thrown out of their homes of thousands of years. This genocide and ethnic cleaning of the
Kashmiri Pandits in the Kashmir valley, was perpetrated by Islamic terrorists backed
by Pakistan and widely supported by the local Muslim majority population. But even after 25 years of this tragedy,
neither Rahul Gandhi nor Arvind Kejriwal
nor Mulayam Singh Yadav nor Mayabati nor Nitish Kumar nor Lalu Yadav nor Sarad
Pawar nor Karunanidhi nor any of the communist leaders or their political
parties could find time to remember this humongous tragedy and show solidarity
with the Kashmiri Pandits & meet them to share their grief. But these politicians
conveniently find time to stage protest in Jantar Mantar with the muslim groups in solidarity against
Gaza conflict, with which we Indians have no connection. Neither the main
stream secular media showed this protest in their prime time nor had any debate
on this tragedy. Not surprising,
as this population of Kashmiri Pandits don’t determine winners or losers in any
election and also are not backed by Fatwa following, fundamentalist,
jihadi religious zealots. Therefore,
these so called secular politicians and
their parties, who were competing with each other for appeasing the Muslim
community when 4000 people were displaced during Muzaffarnagar riot can conveniently
afford to forget some 500,000 of their country men, who are living as refugees for last 25 years
in their own country of origin. An entire population have been uprooted from
the land of their ancestors and left to fend for themselves as a weak-kneed Indian
state shamelessly pandered to Islamic terrorists and separatists who claim they
are the final arbiters of Jammu & Kashmir's destiny. A part of India's
cultural heritage has been destroyed, a chapter of India's civilisation history
has been erased. Had this tragedy occurred elsewhere in Hindu majority India
and had the victims been Muslims, the same vote hungry political parties backed
by pseudo secular historians,
intellectuals and media would have described it as 'ethnic cleansing' and
'genocide.' They would have made films
with horror-inducing titles and filed
cases after cases in the Supreme Court of India. Govts. run by them also would have constituted
judicial commissions after commissions and SITs. The “secular media” would have demonstrated
remarkable rage in reporting the smallest detail. But, this tragedy has
occurred in Muslim majority Kashmir valley and the victims are all Hindus, that too
Pandits. What has been lost and erased is part of India's Hindu culture and
civilisation. Therefore, these “secular politicians” can afford to make bold, blatantly false statements that the
Kashmiri Pandits had "migrated on their own" and their 'displacement
is self-imposed' orchestrated by the then Governor Jagmohan. The National Human Rights Commission, after a
sham of an inquiry, refuses to concede that what had happened is 'genocide' or
'ethnic cleansing,' though facts add up to no less than that, never mind that 500,000
lives have been destroyed. And that there is no room for plural society in
highly Islamised Kashmir valley. And, our
jhola-wallah brigade of
secular activists rudely turn up their noses to the plight of Kashmiri Pandits-
Hindu sorrow inflicted by Islamic terror, stinks.
Did any Muslim Group ever
condemned the mass genocide of Kashmiri Pandits? Which incident took place
first- Babri Masjid, Godhra or Kashmiri
Pandit’s genocide? Why Hindus can’t
retaliate for any incident & why
Muslims create so much of fuss even if one Muslim is killed, that too even if he
were a proven terrorist? On every 6th December- media, pseudo secular intellectuals
and political parties celebrate black day but even after 25 years why does no
secular political leader has the guts to accept what actually
happened with Kashmiri Pandits? What is even more unfortunate is the
fact that a man-made calamity of such a huge scale has not been given the same
media coverage and not aroused the same public sentiment as the Babri Masjid
demolition, Godhra riot (though they conveniently forget the train burning
which killed dozens of Kar Sevaks which triggered the riot) or the
Muzaffarnagar riots have. It is ironic that not a single judicial enquiry
commission has ever been set up to investigate the exodus and killings of
Kashmiri Pandits. The killers have not been punished and rather they are
roaming freely in Kashmir and have many supporters in the valley. The
root cause of all problem of India today is these so called pseudo-secular intellectuals,
historians, politicians and the highly biased media. Do we have the heart and
mind to look back at India's wretched history of secular politics and consider
the terrible price the nation has paid at the altar of appeasement?
