[Reader-list] Kashmiri Pandits submit memorandum to UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in New Delhi

[Aditya Raj Kaul]

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A
joint delegation of up to ten Kashmiri Pandit groups submitted a memorandum
to UN General Secretary Ban-Ki-Moon, who is visiting India, regarding their
demands, which include, to be declared as IDPs Internally Displaced Persons.

Pandits demand recognition as Internally Displaced Persons
PTI

 New Delhi, Oct 31: Demanding that they be declared as Internally Displaced
Persons, a group of Kashmiri Pandits on Friday held a protest here seeking
intervention of UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon in the matter.

The Pandits belonging to various organisations submitted a memorandum to
Moon, who is on a two-day visit to India.  They appealed to Moon to take
cognisance of the plight of Pandits who had to leave their homes in the
valley.

Even 19 years after the mass exodus, more than 50,000 of these Kashmiri
Pandit refugees are living in "pathetic conditions in uninhabitable refugee
camps", they said.

They alleged that successive Central and state governments had failed in
protecting their rights.  They also demanded the government set up a
'Commission of Enquiry' to establish the causes that led to the killings of
Kashmiri Pandits.

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Aditya Raj Kaul