[Reader-list] Kashmiri Pandits demand ‘internally displaced persons’ status

[Aarti Sethi]

As usual Dhatri you miss the point. The territorial return makes sense when
there was a legal accession in the first place. Since this never occurred,
because the plebiscite India committed itself to never happened, you would
need to re-think your position.

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 12:26 PM, we wi <dhatr1i at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> If INDIA possess other provinces like PAKISTAN any body should quote the
> word plebiscite.  Instead the reverse is true for INDIA as POK and like
> boarder areas in occupation from PAKISTAN AND CHINA, you and everybody
> including UN should insist for the territorial return.
>
>
>
> --- On Sun, 11/2/08, Aman Sethi <aman.am at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Aman Sethi <aman.am at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Kashmiri Pandits demand 'internally displaced
> persons' status
> To: reader-list at sarai.net
> Date: Sunday, November 2, 2008, 3:42 AM
>
> Perhaps you should insist that India carry out the UN mandated
> plebiscite as well.
> a.
>
> On Sat, Nov 1, 2008 at 6:10 AM, Aditya Raj Kaul <kauladityaraj at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Kashmiri Pandits demand 'internally displaced persons' status By
> Indo-Asian
> > News Service
> <http://www.freshnews.in/author/indo-asian-news-service/> on
> > Friday, October 31, 2008
> >
> >  Kashmiri Pandits held a silent sit in protest outside the United Nations
> > High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office here Friday, demanding that
> > the community, which fled the Kashmir
> > Valley<http://www.freshnews.in/tag/kashmir-valley>during the peak of
> > militancy 20 years ago, be declared as internally
> > displaced persons (IDPs).
> >
> > The community represented by Kashmiri youth organisations in the capital
> > like Roots in Kashmir, Internally Displaced Youth Front, All India
> Kashmir
> > Samaj, Panun Kashmir and others, along with elderly members of the
> community
> > in Delhi, presented a five-page memorandum of their demands to Nayona
> Bose
> > of the UNHCR to be forwarded to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who is
> on
> > a two-day visit to India.
> >
> > "We welcome the UN secretary on his visit to India. As a community
> we,
> > therefore, appeal to him to help us - declare the Kashmiri Hindu
> community
> > as IDPs," Lalit Ambardar, 35, a qualified engineer who was one of the
> > 100-odd protestors, told IANS.
> >
> > "The Human Rights Working Group on Minorities in Geneva had
> recognised
> > Kashmiri Hindus formally as a 'reverse minority'. So the use of
> the
> > insulting term of 'migrants' for us - a forcibly exiled community
> - should
> > be removed from all records and communications relating to us
> henceforth,"
> > Ambardar chorused the protestor's demand.
> >
> > Many others protestors were angry about the state to which Kashmiri
> Hindus
> > have been reduced since insurgency in the Kashmir Valley in 1989-90, when
> > more that 400,000 Kashmiri Pandits fled their homes to escape
> persecution..
> >
> > "Historically, Kashmiri Pandits were known to be intellectuals, but
> now we
> > are rotting away - we are a national waste - we have no political
> > representation, have no geographic ethnicity that we can claim as our
> own!"
> > fumed Raj Raina, 37.
> >
> > Raina was unable to get a government job owing to his 'migrant'
> status. He
> > is now self-employed and runs a small printing press.
> >
> > "When I was forced to leave my home in the Valley,
> > militants<http://www.freshnews.in/tag/militants>threatened us time
> and
> > again - merge with us (with political and religious
> > views), perish or vanish," Raina recapitulated memories of the
> insurgency.
> >
> > Amongst those present from the community were varsity
> > students<http://www.freshnews.in/tag/students>,
> > who also held that the current situation was sordid.
> >
> > "Calling us migrants implies that we had a choice in the matter, when
> we
> > were actually forced to flee," said Aditya Raj Kaul, a 22-year-old
> student
> > activist from Delhi University.
> >
> > "We have demanded in the memorandum that the UN direct the Indian
> government
> > to ensure adequate protection to the residual Kashmiri Hindu population
> > living in the Valley. Also that Kashmiri Hindus be restored political and
> > economic rights, giving them equal status rather than second-class
> > citizenship in their native land," Kaul informed.
> >
> > Link -
> >
>
> http://www.freshnews.in/kashmiri-pandits-demand-internally-displaced-persons-status-93431
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