[Reader-list] "We were mute spectators"-Omar Abdullah

[we wi]

Hmm,
   
  It is like this.  Please read the Kancharla gopanna and tanasha incident.
   
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhadrachala_Ramadas
   
  Probably Some mystical power appeared in the dreams Omar Abdullah and enlightened him, so as others too MAY BE.
   
  Regards,
  Dhatri.
   
   
   
  Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com> wrote:
  Reality Unfolding :-)

Sarai members, what say ?


On 5/16/08, rashneek kher wrote:
>
> *A Times Now Report by Mir Fareed
> *Two decades after the genocide of Kashmiri Pandits in the Valley, National
> conference President Omar Abdullah has spoken up, saying that Muslims
> including him shouldn't have been mute spectators during the exodus.
>
> "It is a fact that the majority of us - and I include myself in it - the
> majority of us Kashmiris remained mute spectators when the Kashmiri Pandits
> left. And even though now we may want to talk about their return, at that
> time perhaps we did not do as much as should have been done," said Omar on
> Thursday (May 15).
>
> While the timing of his statement is questionable, what cannot be
> discounted
> is the fact that this is the first time a mainstream Kashmiri politician
> has
> spoken so strongly about the plight of Kashmiri Pandits.
>
> Whether it's Rajya Sabha ticket that Omar is eyeing or a sudden prick of
> consience, the feeling of being refugees in their own country is not a one
> that the Pandits are likely to forget soon.
>
> At the height of militancy in Jammu & Kashmir in 1990, propaganda from
> Pakistan laced with the militancy of the Jammu & Kashmir Liberation front
> forced lakhs of Kashmiri Pandits out the valley leaving thousands homeless,
> and forcing them into exile.
>
> In his statement, which first appeared on his blog, Omar Abdullah even
> chatises himself for not speaking up on the genocide, lamenting the fact
> that none of them stood up and had the courage to say the atrocities must
> stop.
>
> "It's so easy to say that we"ll lay down our lives to bring Kashmiri
> Pandits
> back to the valley and I appreciate the sentiment. Pity that sentiment was
> missing when our mosques were being used to drive these people out. None of
> us said this is wrong and the Kashmiri Pandits had every right to continue
> living in the valley. We were mute spectators either mute in agreement or
> mute in abject fear, but mute none the less," he writes.
>
> While this is the first time a mainstream Kashmiri politician has spoken so
> strongly on the plight of these Kashmiri Pandits, Omar's sentiments will
> not
> make the Kashmiri Pandits forget the feeling of being refugees in their own
> country, just yet.
>
>
> --
> Rashneek Kher
> http://www.nietzschereborn.blogspot.com
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